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Howard Dean's latest campaign offices occupy the premises of a former beauty salon in Lebanon, northwestern New Hampshire. More than 200 activists, potential supporters and curious early morning shoppers have [...]

In politics as in the theatre, timing is everything. If Tony Blair had come to Washington a couple of months ago, he would have basked in the rousing 'encores' of [...]

For a boy growing up in the damp grey suburbia of middle-class London, summer's pleasures were essentially vicarious ones. I can recall lying in my bedroom, pale skin carefully protected [...]

It has been all change at the top of the world's great central banks in the past week or two. Mervyn King, the star of UK monetary policy for the [...]

The Fourth of July never fails to evince in me divided loyalties. With a family that is precisely half-American I can wave the flag and admire the fireworks with the [...]

In just three months the world has witnessed a dizzying blur of events that neatly captures the paradox of US power at the start of the 21st century. America's far [...]

It's been widely noted that the recent tour of the US by the new Spanish royal couple of David and Posh Beckham failed to turn heads. They may have a [...]

Only a really cynical curmudgeon could challenge the proposition that relations between Europe and America are well on the way to recovery. So allow me to try. Certainly the transatlantic [...]

Not since Joe McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee has a group of Americans earned a place in the demonology of Europeans quite like the one occupied by today's neo-conservatives. European politicians [...]

I used to be pretty sniffy about Father's Day. It always seemed to me just another example of the triumph of commercial imperialism, of the Hallmark Hegemony that holds hundreds [...]

Faced with the discomfiting lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the casus belli for the war I supported so firmly, it is time for an examination [...]

For years I have braved four-star hotels in exotic locations, lavish buffets and late-night tipples to bring the reader essential information on the proceedings of world economic summits. With a [...]

President George W. Bush yesterday completed his first trip to Europe since the Iraq war, giving signals of an evolving US approach to the transatlantic relationship. After six months that [...]

One of the delights of having four daughters is that one spends a quite unconscionable amount of time at parties. Scarcely a weekend goes by without one or other of [...]

In the pre-dawn hours of March 20, US warplanes and sea-launched missiles struck buildings in Baghdad in an abortive attempt to kill Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president. There was something [...]

In some parts of the Democratic party establishment a campaign is under way to whip up a bit of Clinton nostalgia. Next week, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York senator [...]

Tony Blair had good reason to like Camp David, the US president's mountain retreat in the Catoctin Mountains outside Washington. On his first trip there to meet George W. Bush [...]

Vaclav Havel's evening atthe theatre in Bratislava was about to be interrupted. It was one of the final official appearances for the Czech Republic's playwright president. He was attending a [...]

So the Bush administration's strong dollar policy has at last gone the way of its strong budget policy, its strong financial markets policy and its strong economy policy. Cynics would [...]

Eliza, our third daughter, graduates next month. My wife and I will be there of course. Simultaneously clicking the shutter button and suppressing the tear glands, we'll watch as she [...]

For a cynical Englishman toiling in the margins of the perfumed sanctuaries of American journalism, it is always tempting to have a bit of a chortle when something nasty befalls [...]

Europe Day - May 9 - never did really catch on in the American imagination. Almost every day of the year one group or another of hyphenated-Americans takes time out [...]

The letter on the wall of my office starts in a big bold hand that wears its colours with pride. 'Dear American Hero,' it says. 'My name is Kitty. I [...]

Swivelling like a well-oiled tank turret, President George W. Bush is shifting his administration's focus from the war front to the home front. Hoping the sights and sounds of military [...]

President Jacques Chirac called President George W. Bush this week for the first time since diplomatic negotiations to avoid war in Iraq collapsed two months ago. By chance, the transcript [...]

The mission begins in Baghdad but it does not end there. Were the US to retreat after victory into complacency, new dangers would soon arise. War in Iraq represents but [...]

Since my entire military experience consists of having once played a Roman centurion in a school Passion play, I have decided to spare you my considered appraisal of the Tommy [...]

WASHINGTON and LONDON -- The front lines of the US force approaching Baghdad have slowed their advance to regroup and re-supply as their military commanders weigh when to begin an [...]

Having absorbed everything the news brigades could throw at me over the last week, I can say with some confidence that for the coalition forces the war in Iraq has [...]

Through the hail of diplomatic recriminations and name-calling, one striking fact stands out at this grave historical moment. Once again, as so often in the past century, gallant men and [...]

The patron saint of politicians is Thomas More. The 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England earned his status the hardest way. He declined to endorse King Henry VIII's decision to defy [...]

Avery Washington joke is doing the rounds of the imperial city these days. George W. Bush may not have made up his mind on much of the detail of postwar [...]

In October 2000, on a warm autumn evening at Wake ForestUniversity in Winston Salem, North Carolina, the second of the presidential election debates between Al Gore and George W. Bush [...]

Through the miasma of French posturing on Iraq, it is just possible to discern the contours of a coherent world view. This is not based, as the more spiteful critics [...]

* Washington warns it may abandon a multi-billion-dollar war compensation package for Turkey unless Ankara quickly agrees to allow the US to deploy troops on its soil for an increasingly [...]

Perhaps chastened by their spectacular failure to predict the outcome of the last Gulf war, the opponents of another one have not seriously challenged the general supposition that it will, [...]

Great, fissiparous forces are behind the events that have driven the civilised world to diplomatic disarray in the past few weeks. The imminent and unprecedented exercise of US hegemony over [...]

Donald Rumsfeld's aspersions on old Europe signal to some a rising tide of anti-European sentiment in the US. If it were true, it would be unsurprising. 'C'est un animal mechant,' [...]

At first it was the familiarity of it all that was so shocking. The television pictures that tracked the dazzling white trails across a fierce blue sky as the space [...]

Listening to the angry certitudes that are traded across the Atlantic on Iraq reminds me of the 19th-century British prime minister Viscount Melbourne's observation about the historian Thomas Macaulay: 'I [...]

WASHINGTON -- As the champion of coali-tion-building in the Bush administration, Colin Powell, secretary of state, could well feel betrayed by those very European allies he sought to foster. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, has dismissed European calls for UN weapons teams in Iraq to be given significantly more time, saying inspections were not the [...]

For all the gloomy headlines of the past two years, for all the fear and doubt about what the immediate future holds, it is the resilience of the US economy [...]

The World EconomicForum may have relocated back to its home in Davos this winter after its visit to New York last year, but there is little doubt where the attention [...]

Iam one of life's optimists. In the eternal struggle between the Chicken Littles and the Pollyannas, I am definitely in there with the irrepressibles. When my more saturnine colleagues are [...]

Two months into the imperium of George W. Bush, the wheels are wobbling alarmingly on the presidential chariot. Ten weeks ago, Mr Bush seized the laurel crown that had been [...]

The words of Ogden Nash, my favourite philosopher, capture well the approach of George W. Bush's administration to telling the truth about its intentions at home and abroad. 'There is [...]

With conservatives in control of the White House and Congress, and a resurgent America laying down the law everywhere, 2003 was quite a year. January North Korea announces completion of [...]

Forecasting is a mug'sgame, writes JohnWillman. Everyone remembers the spectacular mistakes, while the brilliant successes are forgotten as soon as they come to pass. And 2002 was a year of [...]

Tony Blair's loyalty to George W. Bush has earnt him criticism at home, where he is the latest in a succession of prime ministers to be portrayed as the American [...]