Phillip McGough

Phillip Mark McGough is a freelance writer and commentator from England. His focus is on history and politics on both sides of the Atlantic. His work has been published in the American Spectator, the Huffington Post, and Quillette.

Britain’s Political Staycation: Foreign Affairs at Home

The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with British politics today is that all of it is happening abroad. In 1938, Neville Chamberlain could airily dismiss the gathering storm over ...