Niccolo Machiavelli
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EU-UK row over ambassador’s status worsens amid leak of letter
- UK
- January 21, 2021, 16:42
A near-yearlong row about the UK’s refusal to grant full diplomatic status to the EU mission to the UK has worsened, with the leak of a letter reveali(...)

Janan Ganesh: Democrats have stopped overthinking impeachment
- US
- September 25, 2019, 17:59
Until Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi, who turns 80 in March, was honouring the rule that people grow cautious with age. The speaker of the US House of Represen(...)

Donald Trump is less a strategist than a player of whack-a-mole
- US
- August 28, 2019, 16:12
Among the oddities of Donald Trump’s negotiating style is his willingness to reveal his hand. “All we have to do,” the US president said of the EU la(...)

Rolling up the river – Frank McNally on an unlikely partnership between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli
- Opinion
- May 2, 2019, 00:01
By the time he died, 500 years ago today, Leonardo da Vinci had long risen above the disadvantage of his illegitimate birth. His father was a wealthy (...)

How to spot when politicians are misrepresenting science
- Culture
- May 2, 2017, 01:00
Powerful politicians in electoral democracies have always bent the truth but US president Donald Trump is perhaps unique in turning it into a balloon (...)

Jeremy Corbyn is leading his party into history’s mausoleum
- UK
- February 28, 2017, 01:00
Theresa May runs an imperious government and still no one knows if it is any good. Britain’s Conservative prime minister can cite poll leads, mastery (...)

All rugby roads lead to Rome as Zebre battle extinction
- European Cup
- January 13, 2017, 17:06
Attilio Bertolucci, the late Italian poet, wrote of his native Parma: “As a capital city, it had to have a river. As a little capital, it received a s(...)

Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, an evil work of genius, still fascinates 500 years on
- Politics
- December 10, 2013, 00:00
At an event in Boston earlier this year, the renowned scholar Edward Muir identified the correspondence of Niccolò Machiavelli’s on December 10th, 151(...)