Adrian Wooldridge

The European Union, which was born in 1993 and sired by the Maastricht Treaty, was a child of neoliberalism: the doctrine of market supremacy and government restraint that swept the world from the 1980s onward. Globalization and the single market provided the EU with a growth engine; the single currency and the EU regulatory authorities drove integration; and an extensive system of contracting out sustained the EU’s sense that it was a special place, at the forefront of progress. Provided the Ch

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The European Union, which was born in 1993 and sired by the Maastricht Treaty, was a child of neoliberalism: the doctrine of market supremacy and government restraint that swept the world from the 1980s onward.

Globalization and the single market provided the EU with a growth engine; the single currency and the EU regulatory authorities drove integration; and

Project 2025 is one of the most successful political enterprises of recent years. Produced by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that has been at the forefront of every right-wing fashion since its foundation in 1973, the project provided the second Donald Trump administration with a plan and a purpose that was lacking in the first administration. More generally, it ensured that MAGA made the political weather and the opposition merely put up umbrellas. By some estimates, the Whi

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The most moving scene in Homer is not the death of the great heroes, Patroclus or Hector, but the tail-wagging of a pet dog, Argos. After 20 years away, ten fighting the Trojans and ten wandering the seas, Odysseus returns to his hometown of Ithaca disguised as a beggar. As he approaches his family palace, where his wife is being besieged by leeching suitors, he encounters his childhood pet Argos, which he raised from a puppy into a magnificent hunting dog, swift as a stag and bold as a lion, bu

The most moving scene in Homer is not the death of the great heroes, Patroclus or Hector, but the tail-wagging of a pet dog, Argos.