Martin Edwards

Oct 3, 2024 | ukcolumn.substack.com | Martin Edwards |Geoff Mulgan

By Martin Edwards - 7th January 2017The British press have long had the tendency to sensationalise the mundane and, in relation to issues of national significance, either omit them entirely or report deliberately skewed half truths and untruths. Take, for example, the 12-page Daily Mail series of articles on the role of Sir David Bell and Julia Middleton's Common Purpose in relation to the Leveson Inquiry into the behaviour of certain segments of the British media.

Jul 9, 2024 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Gavin Mortimer |Roger Kimball |Martin Edwards

Stick or twist? The gambler’s choice is the Democrats’ awful dilemma as the presidential election draws ever closer. Do they stick with Joe Biden, their painfully decrepit commander-in-chief, who is losing in the polls? Or twist and gamble on replacing him, which could tear the party apart and make Donald Trump’s victory even more likely? The president may already be on borrowed timeThe news over the weekend showed that the Democrats are already at war with themselves.

Jul 8, 2024 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Roger Kimball |Martin Edwards |Angus Colwell

Calls for President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race are reaching a deafening pitch. The eighty-one-year-old appears to be hard of hearing, however — or else attuned only to the whisperings of his power-hungry wife. Either way, Biden is refusing to budge, ignoring pleas from House Democrats — Representatives Jerry Nadler, Joe Morelle, Adam Smith, Jim Himes and Mark Takano among them — and celebrities alike to throw in the towel.

Jul 8, 2024 | thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Martin Edwards |Angus Colwell |Kate Andrews

I have been in Paris the last few days and by coincidence am staying cheek by jowl (joue contre joue?) with the Eiffel Tower, site of France’s version of those “mostly peaceful” and of course eminently wonderful protests against “the far right” last week in the aftermath of Marine Le Pen’s strong showing in the first round of voting for seats in the National Assembly.

May 19, 2024 | msn.com | Martin Edwards