Madonna never stopped provoking, surprising, aggravating and upsetting as many people as she could and in full view of as many people as possible. One way to decide whether someone hastens a cultural shift rather than just provides great art and entertainment is to try to recall what life was like...

For Elon Musk the sky has never been the limit, but an unfortunate tweet may be his undoing. To take over the world requires more than just vision and organization. Nations can no longer pretend to do it — as the US empire wanes — because they are confined by their boundaries. In today’s...

Recent ruptures in US-Turkish relations are part of a new populist presidential politics, not a major geopolitical realignment. “We are for every kind of cooperation to eat the grapes. But we will never give the opportunity to those whose aim is to beat the grape grower.” So said Turkish...

China does not acknowledge the existence of re-education camps, but the UN says it has credible reports that 1 million Uighurs are being held. In response to international criticism, China has come closer to admitting that it has brutally cracked down on the strategic northwestern province of...

If a bloated military can’t force the world into submission, economic warfare should do the trick, at least according to Washington. Nothing can stop Donald Trump’s America from pursuing a foreign policy that is tantamount to a new brand of global warfare. And it isn’t just Trump. The...

Ironically, it is the relentless attacks on Muslims that are creating a more visible Muslim presence in the UK.  Boris Johnson’s inflammatory remarks about women who wear the burqa have sparked outrage and fierce debate on an issue that was already highly emotive. Since the 2016 referendum on...

The late V.S. Naipaul’s writings may, at best, be described as toxically gloomy, a process of political incorrectness — of hopelessness, anxiety and alarm. Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, who died in London, aged 85, on August 11, had a great sensitivity for ambivalence, not to speak of his...

When does one person’s freedom contain in its definition the right to cancel another person’s freedom? As noted in the previous edition of The Daily Devil’s Dictionary, Britain’s chief Donald Trump emulator (and owner of an equally impressive mop of blond hair), Boris Johnson, is under fire...