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...leadership contest and the EU referendum. No doubt the dwindling band of Conservative members (and their indefatigable friends in the media) anticipate the coming battles with relish. The Conservative Party, after all, is the Harry Houdini of British politics – it puts itself into impossible situations, apparently for the sheer thrill of it, but members of the audience...

...leadership in this country and around the world. Clinton enters the general election season with a unique set of advantages and disadvantages. She became a household name as First Lady. This notoriety helped her in the primaries against the lesser known Bernie Sanders, but it also repels some voters, who, fairly or unfairly, did not appreciate her role in her husband’s...

...leadership style, public opinion is too biased, the political system is too complicated, power is too decentralized, and interests are too diverse for one person, no matter how extraordinary, to dominate. Neither the public nor Congress is likely to respond to the White House’s efforts at persuasion. Presidents cannot create opportunities for change. There is...

...leadership of an order few nations in decline seem able to muster. Margaret Thatcher was the main beneficiary of the unearned bonus of North Sea energy, but there seems to have been little effort to use that potential for any purposeful national renewal. Trade unionists in engineering led imaginative campaigns for a future not based on arms sales, but they received little...