Charles Moore

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Moore

1 week ago | aol.co.uk | Charles Moore

In living memory, the only comparison with the big political effect of Reform UK is the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which was born in 1981 as a breakaway from Labour. In that year, the then-famous Shirley Williams won a smashing by-election for the SDP at Crosby, a mere half an hour’s drive from Runcorn, scene of today’s Reform triumph. Although the SDP had a sort of afterlife, it died as a political force in 1988, merging with the Liberals.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Charles Moore

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Charles Moore

Congratulations to Donald Trump. It is almost solely thanks to his exertions that Mark Carney, the incarnation of Davos man, is now victorious in Canada’s general election. The Euro fanatic now wins on a ‘sovereignty’ ticket. If Trump had not intervened to lay claim to Canada, almost as if America were Russia and Canada were Ukraine, it would have gone Conservative.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Charles Moore

Congratulations to Donald Trump. It is almost solely thanks to his exertions that Mark Carney, the incarnation of Davos man, is now victorious in Canada’s general election. The Euro fanatic now wins on a ‘sovereignty’ ticket. If Trump had not intervened to lay claim to Canada, almost as if America were Russia and Canada were Ukraine, it would have gone Conservative. The President may be only hazily aware that the King, of whom, he says, he has the ‘honour to be a friend’, is also King of Canada.