Bill Clinton Articles

How do you write a memoir that you want to be both a bestseller and yet not have any political hostages to fortune? ‘Relatively easily’ would seem to be the answer if you are Hillary Rodham Clinton whose new tome, Hard Choices, pulls the curtain back on her time as...

People from all over the world have an American president they identify with, whether that be John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama or another. For me, it is Bill Clinton. Why? Well, his 1996 re-election campaign was the first political campaign I was aware of....

Throughout its history the divisions between Labour’s left and right – over issues ranging from nationalisation and public ownership to the market economy, Europe, and defence – have served to disguise a subtler, but no less important, fissure: that between what the...

The good news: it was a speech Tony Blair could easily have given. The semi-approving invocation of Margaret Thatcher, the silence where Labour’s past ought to be, the promise to break down old institutions and reorient public services: it was all there. Now for the...