“Where is Global Britain on the streets of Kabul” exclaimed Theresa May in response to Britain and the US’ humiliating withdrawal from Kabul. Kabul had fallen only a few days earlier on the 15th August and parallels to the 1956…
2021 has barely begun and it has already become a year that won’t be easily forgotten. Though a cliche, it is something fundamentally correct. A third national lockdown in the UK. The US Capitol being stormed by Trump supporters refusing…
There is something remarkably bewildering about living through a pandemic, which, at its very heart, encompasses a jarring juxtaposition of dichotomous realities too facile to formulate. Yet, it is through one profound simplicity, the line between life and death, that…
We’ve all heard of swing states, electoral votes and the ‘race to 270’, but what do they mean and how are they related to the Electoral College? This article is a brief guide to today’s election and an explainer of…
Tomorrow, the millions of Americans who have not already done so will take to the polls to vote for who they want to be their President for the next four years. Will it be former Vice-President Joe Biden? Or will…
This piece is part of a series from Backbench exploring the US 2020 presidential election. To have your say and share your opinions on this defining moment for the US, email your pitches and articles to editor@bbench.co.uk This year’s presidential…
‘We do not care about trying to “control the narrative” and all that New Labour junk and this government will not be run by “comms grid”.’ Dominic Cummings wrote that in January 2020, in his infamous ‘weirdos and misfits’ blog…
It’s getting harder by the day to find any meaningful difference between the approach to national governance of Donald Trump and that of Boris Johnson. Johnson seems to be adopting the American Presidents leadership style more and more, and that’s…
How do you “Make America Great Again” when you’re already president? Donald Trump’s team has been grappling with this question for months, and it’s not clear whether they’ve found the answer yet. What made the MAGA slogan so popular -…