Something many right-wing populists have in common is a peculiar form of self-pity: the feeling of being victimised by the liberal media, academics, intellectuals, “experts” — in short, by the so-called elites.The liberal elites, the populists proclaim, rule the world and dominat

The absurdity of the North Korean dictatorship is easy to caricature.

The ghastly spectacle last month of neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, carrying torches and barking slogans about the supremacy of the white race, was sparked by the city’s plans to remove a statue of Robert E.

Some people might have dismissed Donald Trump’s recent tweet of a video clip showing him punching the face of a man with a CNN logo on his head as yet another example of the US president’s vulgar buffoonery — unseemly, perhaps, but par for the course. But others have pointed

After the French Revolution of 1789, deputies in the National Assembly who supported the revolutionary gains sat on the left, while those who opposed them and hankered after the old order of monarchy and church congregated on the right.Hence the political terms “left” and “right”

Nothing seemed to be going right for Donald Trump during the first 11 weeks of his presidency.Federal courts blocked his attempts to ban citizens from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

Those who have been telling us that Islam, not just revolutionary Islamism, is a lethal threat to Western civilisation should now feel satisfied: the president of the United States, and his main advisers, agree with them.In the tweeted words of Donald Trump’s national security ad

Is there any reason for liberals to feel optimistic after a year of political disasters?

A bronze bust of Winston Churchill, displayed in the White House since the 1960s, has been the object of a continuing right-wing canard in Washington.The story goes that when President Barack Obama moved in, he returned the bust to the British embassy, supposedly signifying