Just how bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?
Towards the end of the summer, almost in a spirit of contrarianism, well-informed Americans started talking about President Joe Biden…
How bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?
Should the Democrats expect a shellacking in the US midterms?
A bluffer’s guide to (yet another) Tory leadership race
Here we go again – another leadership contest, another round of intense Westminster blather. Lightweight would-be commentators may feel their…
Meghan Markle's podcast is about the word ‘crazy.’ And it’s barking mad
‘Calling someone crazy or hysterical completely dismisses their experience,’ says Meghan Markle in her strangely throaty professional podcast voice. ‘It…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the new financial crisis
Aggggghhh! Woooaaaah! Urrrggghhhh! Those screams you hear are ten thousand self-appointed financial experts howling into the existential abyss. The Bank…
Joe Biden's Taiwan muddle has become untenable
Under Joe Biden, the longstanding American policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ vis-à-vis Taiwan has taken on a curious post-modern quality. The…
Biden is treating his political opponents like domestic terrorists
What is going on in America? A celebrity eccentric known as ‘the Pillow guy’, his real name is Mike Lindell,…
Get ready for Liz mania
Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…
Drama queens: the return of Meghan and Harry
Harry and Meghan are back with a vengeance
Is Joe Biden… winning?
Well, well, well – Joe Biden seems to be making something of a comeback. His approval rating, which dropped to…
Farewell, St Anthony Fauci
So farewell, Anthony Fauci, the unfortunate face of America’s pandemic response. Well, not so unfortunate – the doctor is stepping…
Is Liz Cheney a ‘martyr’ to Republican values?
In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we’ll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to…
Going bananas: Biden's America is fast regressing
America is fast regressing
Meghan Markle’s feelings don’t care about your facts
Did Meghan Markle grow up as an only child? She said she did, in that famously awful Oprah interview. Yet…
Trump’s return: is the Bad Orange Man on his way back to the White House?
Is he about to stage his comeback?
How much have the 6 January hearings damaged Trump?
The congressional inquiry into 6 January’s storming of the Capitol is having a break. In its last prime-time hearing of…
End of quote. Repeat the line. Joe Biden can’t go on
How much longer can the global disaster that is Joe Biden’s presidency go on? Surely there comes a point when…
Boris was never Trump
The urge to compare Boris Johnson to Donald Trump was always irresistible. It has been fun, too. Both men are colourful…
The Tories will miss Boris now he’s gone
Boris Johnson was often talked about as the luckiest politician on earth — and in a sense he was. Outrageous…
Who says Boris has to go?
As the cameras burped and clicked, as an aggravated nation watched, Boris Johnson announced that he was giving up. ‘Let…
AOC's Roe v. Wade grandstanding has gone too far
If you’ve bothered to actually read the Supreme Court’s opinion on Roe v. Wade – rather than the endless social…
The problem with Billie Eilish’s Roe v. Wade intervention
The words ‘dark day’ went viral yesterday — in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in…
The truth about the Roe v. Wade abortion 'ban'
You wait decades for landmark reforms in America and then, like culture-war buses, two come along at once. Earlier this…
The death of political authority
Voters are increasingly unsure where to turn
The Capitol riot hearings are farcically partisan
Let’s get the boringly obvious out of the way. What happened in Washington on 6 January, 2021 was bad. Very…
