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Why is Starmer starting rows before the election?
The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he didn’t mean to cause ‘concern or offence’ when he called for…
Biden’s social media needs a refresh
Joe Biden has a cold. That was the desperate message sent out by sources close to the president halfway through…
Newsom is better than Biden
I have on the desk two yo-yos. One is from the brand Duncan – the ‘Imperial’ model. The other is from the…
Kemi Badenoch blasts Nigel Farage
With a week to go until polling day, the Tories are stepping up their attacks on Reform. Following Channel 4’s…
Sunak’s campaign has been a disaster from start to finish
Dry wit is a much under-appreciated quality in this age of high-impact sledgehammer communication. In an election full of sub-standard soundbites…
Macron’s power in Europe is draining
In Brussels over the last two days EU heads of state and government have been carving up the ‘top jobs’.…
Can the Democrats drop Joe Biden?
After his disastrous outing against Donald Trump on Thursday evening, Joe Biden’s surrogates are scrambling to salvage something from the…
Why is the C of E selling off Dick Whittington’s burial place?
The Church of England is flogging off Dick Whittington. No, this isn’t an innuendo or a twist from a pantomime,…
Why I’m backing the Tories over Reform
You can often tell a lot about people, not by what they say but how they say it. Three weeks…
How prison changed Julian Assange – and me
Julian Assange was a changed man when he walked free from Belmarsh prison in south London this week. The Wikileaks…
Is America fit to lead the West?
Foreign policy rarely plays a significant role in a US presidential election. Domestic issues, the economy, money in the pocket,…
The Biden-Trump debacle doesn’t mean America is in decline
There’s no point sugarcoating it: the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was a complete mess. Biden…
Will Michelle Obama run? The runners and riders to replace Joe Biden
After a lamentable performance in Thursday’s debate, much of the Democrat press corps is demanding that Joe Biden step aside.…
America is in trouble if Gavin Newsom succeeds Biden
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is everywhere at the moment, earnestly assuring Americans of his unwavering loyalty to poor,…
Meloni is furious at the EU’s centrist stitch-up
The European Union has reached an agreement on the bloc’s political leadership for the next five years – and in the…
Democrats can’t pretend to be shocked by Joe Biden’s decline
What a difference a week makes. Last week, White House spinners and Democratic pundits were insisting that clips of US president Joe Biden appearing…
Biden’s legacy has been left in tatters
Joe Biden did not simply alter his chances at winning a second term last night. He altered his legacy. It…
Democrats have led America to the brink of the abyss
Before Thursday’s debate, the leading contender to win the upcoming presidential election was already Donald Trump, a man whose first…
Biden and Harris must go
For months US Democrats have been wondering why voters were not supporting Joe Biden. He has been a good president, and…
The five worst moments from the Trump-Biden debate
Can Joe Biden cling on? That’s the question being asked in Washington, DC after a painful performance from the president…
After last night, nobody believes in Joe Biden
‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he…
‘That was painful’: CNN mourns Biden implosion
Oh dear. The Democrats are reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of the election (the…
Joe Biden’s debate disaster
The Democrats wanted and needed a compelling performance from Joe Biden last night: a rebuttal to the concerns about his…
Presidential debate: Joe Biden was painful to watch
These weren’t the Lincoln-Douglas debates. They weren’t Kennedy-Nixon. If those were graded ‘A’, then this was ‘C-minus’, at best. Both…
Iran’s sham election will change nothing
Voting takes place in Iran’s snap presidential election today – a contest brought forward by the death last month in…
