Dominic Green

The new normal has already abolished the old norms. We are all postliberal now.

Quincy Jones, who died on November 3 aged 91, was the last major musician whose working life spanned the arc of 20th-century American music. Jones was born in 1933, only six years after Louis Armstrong recorded "Struttin' With Some Barbeque," one of the Hot Five sides that crystallized the centrality of the solo instrumentalist in jazz. A child of the age when music ran at 78 r.p.m. or crackled out of analogue tubes, Jones saw out the music's transition into pure digitality, in which all prior recordings can be broken into their elements and, with pitch-shifting and tempo-tweaking, be infinitely recombined, and its first contacts with artificial intelligence. Throughout, Jones remained a jazz musician.

Attendees sing as former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to address the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee. Picture Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

D ur ing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the theater folk of London organized an evening to raise consciousness or funds. The playwright Arnold Wesker persuaded my father Benny, a man holding no fixed political convictions and a partially fixed tenor saxophone, to bring a jazz quartet. On the night, my father was midway through his solo on “Slow Boat to China” when Wesker sidled onto the stage and whispered, or rather bellowed, into his ear, “They’ve dropped the Bomb. Don’t say anything, just keep playing. We don’t want a panic.”

American politics is a game of two parties in which Donald Trump wins either way. The president-elect's first nominee for attorney general, the rubber-faced MAGA roué Matt Gaetz, was never going to pass the Senate.

The United Kingdom voted on bills saying the state should assist in euthanizing any adult who is “expected to die within six months.”

The U.S. should stop indulging the neo-Ottoman Islamists who run Turkey.

The history of the religious prohibition of pork reveals how Jewish communities were often defined in terms of the food they refused.

The appointment of Mandelson as Britain's next ambassador to Washington, DC tells us much about what kind of person Keir Starmer is.

For a political genius, he’s been on the losing side an awful lot of times