Donald Trump swallows New Hampshire
Donald Trump has, like a boa constrictor, squeezed the life out of the Republican primary cycle. Last night, he swallowed New…
Will Nikki Haley pull out on Wednesday?
New Hampshire votes tomorrow and today Nikki Haley has just two planned events. She has a morning meet-and-greet in the…
Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of…
Nikki Haley says being Trump’s vice president is ‘off the table’
The theory that Donald Trump will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president refuses to die – in spite of…
Everything is falling into place for Donald Trump
Vivek Ramaswamy, the impressive podcast guest who has spent the last few months pretending to be a serious Republican presidential…
Why Trump can’t be stopped
Donald Trump has dominated Republican politics for so long that it can be hard to remember the time when he…
Biden’s phony January 6 memorialization
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, January 5, the president will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to…
Biden’s cynical attempt to memorialise 6 January
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, 5 January, the US President will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,…
Get ready for the 2024 Great Election Freak-Out
“If Trump wasn’t running,” said Joe Biden last week, “I’m not sure I’d be running.” That’s a curiously uninspiring remark…
The lawfare against Donald Trump is increasingly farcical
Does kicking a popular candidate off the electoral ballot protect democracy? Or is that in fact deeply anti-democratic? These are…
Nikki Haley’s popularity is probably because of media desperation
Nikki Haley is now the favourite ‘not Donald Trump’ candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.…
Hunter Biden’s MAGA attack won’t throw Republicans off the scent
Hunter Biden was lost and now he’s found. That was the quasi-Biblical subtext of the president’s prodigal son’s speech outside…
Ron DeSantis just isn’t presidential material
Sans Trump, the Republican presidential debates of 2023 have mostly been piddling contests in a shallow pool. We’ve seen nasty…
Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?
Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he…
‘The party of abortion’ is winning
Not so long ago, Republicans called Democrats the ‘party of abortion’ as an insult, or a pre-election attack line. Now,…
Not even America’s legal system can stop Trump
‘I beseech you to control him if you can,’ Justice Arthur Engoron. told Donald Trump’s lawyer in court yesterday. To which the…
The banality of Elon’s chat with Rishi
It was hard to enjoy Rishi Sunak’s sit down with Elon Musk on stage at Lancaster House last night. It…
Kamala Harris’s brain-dead AI plan
Try to think of leading names in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kamala Harris is probably not the first that…
Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck
Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his…
The Republican party is a mess
In comparison to the Republicans in the United States, the British Conservative party is a model of unity and discipline.…
Emergency on Planet Biden
‘If aliens attacked Earth, do you think we would be safer under Joe Biden or Donald Trump?’ That’s a question…
Americans care less and less about Trump’s legal troubles
Another day in America, another judgment against the Trump family. In the latest, New York state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron…
It won’t be long before Russell Brand releases his first show on X
It’s only a matter of time before Russell Brand, backed as he is by Elon Musk, releases his first show…