What’s going on in the Pentagon?
In the past two days, three senior Defense Department officials have been suspended and one has resigned. Their departures are…
Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?
A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that…
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap
Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration…
What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed
Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response. It defies…
Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game
Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped…
Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice
Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to…
How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine
It’s great that JD Vance is all for free speech, though he does tend to shoot off his mouth in…
Chagos – the riviera of the Indian Ocean?
Keir Starmer seemed on unusually good form as he arrived in Washington last night. He cracked quite a good joke about the…
The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right
And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous…
Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?
Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also…
The many questions of the Washington plane crash
‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump…
The Trump resistance is dead
The special relationship is dead, long live the special relationship. On Friday, at a ‘Stars and Stripes & Union Jack…
Trump hypes America for his return
Biblical weather outside the sixtieth presidential inaugural rally in the Capitol One Arena yesterday: hail plonked down onto streets of…
Trump’s plan for day one
Washington, DC On your marks, get set, executive orders. Donald Trump will be sworn back into office on Monday, from…
Empire of Trump: the President’s plan to make America greater
‘The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation,’ said William McKinley, America’s 25th commander-in-chief, who happens to…
Does Britain want to join Trump’s new world order?
Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more…
Musk fall-out is Reform’s Clause IV moment
Another day, another UK volley from the one-man media universe that is Elon Musk. At 07.51 this morning, Musk posted…
Will terrorists target Donald Trump’s inauguration day?
Donald Trump is an unconventional politician and he responds to terror attacks unconventionally. When bad things happen, he often goes…
Jimmy Carter’s mistake was telling America it was wrong
It’s hard to think of a political oration that has backfired as famously as Jimmy Carter’s ‘crisis of confidence’ speech,…
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…
