Will America eventually tire of Trump’s legal troubles?
In our age of mass attention deficit, the manifold legals trials against Donald Trump represent a big challenge. Maybe that’s…
What’s gone wrong for Ron DeSantis?
Where did it all go wrong for Ron?
What explains Ron DeSantis’s woeful run for president?
It’s widely acknowledged that, as governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has been a success. As a presidential candidate, however, he…
Is Hunter Biden a bigger crook than Donald Trump?
Shall we play a game of pick the real criminal? Come on, it will be fun. On the one hand,…
Harry’s crusade: the Prince vs the press
The Prince’s crusade against the press
America is trapped in Trump legal groundhog day
Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If that’s true, then what…
Does Biden actually care about gay rights?
Joseph Robinette Biden, a practising Catholic, has travelled a long way when it comes to gay rights. In 1996, as Senator…
Can Trump’s opponents prove him wrong on Ukraine?
His opponents need to prove him wrong on Ukraine
DeSantis’s presidential ambitions are crashing to earth
People imagine that the real world is similar to the dark side of the TV show Succession. For some reason…
It’s a long way to the presidency for Ron DeSantis
Joe Biden became America’s president in 2021 because the alternative was four more years of Donald Trump. If Ronald Dion…
Does anyone think the sex abuse verdict will stop Donald Trump?
Can a man who has been found ‘civilly liable’ for sexual abuse in court be elected president of the United…
Vote Joe Biden, get Kamala Harris?
Since Joe Biden confirmed that he will run for re-election, the odds of Kamala Harris becoming the first female president of…
Is Donald Trump America’s Marine Le Pen?
‘Democracy,’ said H.L. Mencken, ‘is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.’ As we approach 2024, America…
Why did Rupert Murdoch fire his most successful host?
Ever since it began in 2016, Tucker Carlson Tonight has been easily the most interesting news show on American television.…
Can Joe Biden win again?
In America last week, a 92-year-old media titan agreed to pay out a $787 million (£632 million) settlement with Dominion…
The Murdoch empire’s darkest secret
One way or another, we’re almost all ‘content creators’ these days, humble social-media serfs toiling away in the Silicon Valley…
Get ready for the Passion of The Donald
It won’t have escaped Donald Trump’s notice that his arrest has come during Holy Week, when our Lord and Saviour…
Biden, Trump and iniquity in America
Shall we talk about double standards? People scoff at ‘whataboutery’, yet sometimes an iniquity towards one side becomes so absurd…
The overlapping lives of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
Often spoken of in the same breath, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are not in fact all that similar. Both…
The Stormy Daniels case won’t stop Donald Trump
The 45th president of the United States of America — and the leading Republican contender to win back the White…
Why is bitcoin surging following SVB’s collapse?
For more than a decade, bitcoin bores have been banging on about cryptocurrency as the future of money. The emergence…
Don vs Ron: the fight for the American right
The fight for the Republican party nomination
The great villain of Covid is China. Not Matt Hancock
The Telegraph has a hell of a scoop with its lockdown files, aka Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps. It’s a major public…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the ‘Windsor Framework’
For amateur talking heads, the words ‘protocol’ and ‘framework’ have always been troubling. Such terms suggest muddling technical detail, constitutional…
Fox News’s ‘silent ban’ on Donald Trump
It’s by now well-established that Fox News, the American media behemoth, is no longer on the Trump Train. Trumpworld’s union…