Oligarchy dies in the light
Have the plutocrats of the internet age finally realised that all Donald Trump wanted was their love? This week, Jeff…
The real reason people don’t like Elon Musk funding Reform
The meeting between Nigel Farage, the property developer Nick Candy and Elon Musk has prompted an all-too-predictable fit among media…
Joe Biden was always going to pardon Hunter
Joe Biden’s whole presidency has been built on untruths. We were led to believe, for instance, that since 2021 the…
Musical chairs at Mar-a-Lago
Welcome to the United States of Disruption. From his ‘Winter White House’ in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy…
How will the ‘deep state’ swallow Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz?
Yesterday morning, I asked why President-elect Donald Trump seemed to be pausing before announcing Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. By the…
Why hasn’t Marco Rubio been announced as Trump’s Secretary of State yet?
Rubio, Rubio, wherefore art thou Rubio? How Little Marco, as Donald Trump dubbed him in 2016, must be squirming. It…
American titan: Inside Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback
Palm Beach, Florida Donald Trump’s bid to take back the White House has been triumphant. It is a decisive victory…
Susie Wiles and the rise of the Floridian right
‘Susie Wiles is a great choice for President Trump’s chief of staff,’ said Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida…
The Trump-Harris election has broken America
‘Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all,’ said Balfour. Tell that to the American political class on…
Has the Trump campaign stalled?
The ‘Trumpmentum’ of the last few weeks couldn’t last forever. Now, with less than four days to go until election…
Team Trump: who’s in – and who’s out?
If Donald Trump wins back the White House next week, adopt the brace position. His opponents will go beserk, inevitably,…
Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and the great realignment in US politics
For Donald Trump fans, one of the many creepy curiosities of this year’s presidential election is that Liz and Dick…
When it comes to trash talk, you can’t beat the Donald
‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a computer programming principle which states that the quality of a system’s output is determined…
I can handle Trump, Farage tells Labour
Nigel Farage was on gregarious and ebullient form at our Americano US election event in Westminster last night. He confidently…
The British are coming! Labour’s comedy of errors in the US election
Our hapless Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest…
Why is Trump beating Kamala to the Arab vote?
Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in…
Donald Trump is bringing the joy at just the right moment
Donald Trump is many things. Most of all, he is the quintessential American entrepreneur. He sees the upside in everything.…
Trump’s Chicago interview was magnificently weird
Kamala Harris has been criticising Donald Trump for ducking interviews. Today, however, she avoided a sit-down with the Economic Club…
Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem
As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President…
Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview was Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness
Somebody give Bill Whitaker a prize. In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired last night, the CBS…
What is Melania Trump up to?
For eight years, Melania Trump has done a brilliant job of keeping us all guessing. Is she, as gossips have…
J.D. Vance dominated the VP debate
To manage expectations in the run-up to last night’s debate, Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, let it be…
Joe Biden’s dishonest farewell tour
‘Some things are more important than staying in power,’ Joe Biden just told the United Nations, and the General Assembly…
Donald Trump could have the last laugh on crypto
A day after nearly being shot again, the 78-year-old Donald Trump is once more being mocked for sounding like a…
What doesn’t kill Trump makes him stronger
As if there hadn’t been enough drama in America in 2024, Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt. The attempted…
