The Scottish Uprising
Alex Massie follows up his warning from last week with a comment on the latest polling from select seats in Scotland: If the SNP can, as these figures suggest, enjoy a 28 percent swing in their favour...
View ArticleScotland and the Conservatives’ Election Campaign
Alex Massie deplores the Conservative election campaign’s tactics for playing into Scottish nationalist hands: Instead, however, these Tory “strategists” seem determined to ask Scots to choose between...
View ArticleThe View from England: “The Union Is Over”
Matthew Parris thinks that “the Union is over” and expects the general election results to confirm this. He notes the growing frustration with Scotland in England: In hundreds of conversations I’ve...
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
Saudi Arabia’s coming quagmire. Peter Salisbury explains the background to the current war in Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s foolhardy war in Yemen. Kevin Sullivan warns the U.S. not to lend support to it....
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
The Armenian genocide a hundred years later. Justin Marozzi reviews Ronald Suny and Thomas de Waal’s books on the Hayots ts’eghaspanut’yun. Our bad friends, the Saudis. Kelley Vlahos reports on U.S....
View ArticleThe English Threat to the U.K.
Janan Ganesh sees English impatience with Scotland as a bigger threat to the U.K. than the SNP: Unionists pretend otherwise but their cause is itself a kind of nationalism: its premise is that the...
View ArticleAn “Unpredictable” Election in Britain That Isn’t So Unpredictable
One of the common themes in recent coverage of Britain’s general election is that it is a highly “unpredictable” election, but this is somewhat misleading. It’s true that the exact composition of the...
View ArticleThe British Election and the Fragile Union
Philip Stephens reviews how the leading British parties have used the SNP surge in their campaigns: That said, let the nationalists remain an existential threat to the union. You would not have grasped...
View ArticleInitial Thoughts on the British Election
According to exit polling and early returns, the Conservatives are on track to win the most seats and possibly even win an outright majority on their own. Despite huge losses for the Liberal Democrats,...
View ArticleWill the Dissolution of the U.K. Be Prevented?
Ross Douthat reflects on the likelihood of the dissolution of the U.K.: I don’t know if these points taken together make disunion more likely than not; perhaps they still leave the odds somewhat in...
View Article“Brexit” and the U.S.-U.K. Relationship
Richard Haass warns against “Brexit” and makes an unusually frank admission about why he hopes it doesn’t happen: Even worse, it is highly probable that Americans advocating for a reduced US role in...
View ArticleThe U.S. Shouldn’t Take Sides in the “Brexit” Debate
Ramesh Ponnru makes a good case that the U.S. shouldn’t take sides in the U.K. debate over “Brexit”: The second point is that we aren’t likely to sway the British by making a case based on our...
View ArticleSome Implications of the Leave Win
Now that the U.K. has voted to leave the EU, no one knows exactly what comes next, but we can see some general outlines of what is likely to happen. The vote itself does not automatically trigger...
View ArticleCameron’s Failure
Alex Massie reviews David Cameron’s tenure as prime minister: No prime minister in living memory has suffered a defeat of such cataclysmic proportions; none has been so thoroughly humiliated by his own...
View Article‘Brexit’ Begins
Britain has officially started the process of negotiating its exit from the EU: The U.K. on Wednesday formally began the process of exiting from the European Union, starting on an unprecedented path to...
View ArticleThe Scottish Uprising
Alex Massie follows up his warning from last week with a comment on the latest polling from select seats in Scotland: If the SNP can, as these figures suggest, enjoy a 28 percent swing in their favour...
View ArticleScotland and the Conservatives’ Election Campaign
Alex Massie deplores the Conservative election campaign’s tactics for playing into Scottish nationalist hands: Instead, however, these Tory “strategists” seem determined to ask Scots to choose between...
View ArticleThe View from England: “The Union Is Over”
Matthew Parris thinks that “the Union is over” and expects the general election results to confirm this. He notes the growing frustration with Scotland in England: In hundreds of conversations I’ve...
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
Saudi Arabia’s coming quagmire. Peter Salisbury explains the background to the current war in Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s foolhardy war in Yemen. Kevin Sullivan warns the U.S. not to lend support to it....
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
The Armenian genocide a hundred years later. Justin Marozzi reviews Ronald Suny and Thomas de Waal’s books on the Hayots ts’eghaspanut’yun. Our bad friends, the Saudis. Kelley Vlahos reports on U.S....
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