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Kiev won’t chicken out over Trump’s desired Biden probe
For several years Donald Trump has depicted himself as a kind of Roger Thornhill, the advertising executive in Alfred Hitchcock’s…
The Mueller inquiry was an attempted coup
More official reports, reprimands and (probably) indictments are to come in the Great Get Trump imbroglio of 2016 to 2019.…
Farewell to Bill de Blasio, 2020’s least consequential candidate
Friday news drops are often saved for surprising or important stories. What NYC mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Morning…
School climate strikers should answer these two questions
“The Earth is dying”, “the world is on fire”, we’re undergoing an “environmental extinction”: just three of the sentiments which…
Will the Supreme Court end the prorogation of Parliament?
At the close of Supreme Court proceedings on Thursday, there was quite a lot of to and fro about what…
Justin Trudeau isn’t a racist, he’s a spoiled rich kid
I don’t like to say I told you so — I bloody love it. Lo, a whole 19 months ago,…
Robert C. O’Brien, Trump’s good soldier
With the appointment of Robert C. O’Brien to serve as national security adviser, Donald Trump will once more disappoint his…
What Corbyn’s Brexit policy means for a general election
Jeremy Corbyn has dashed the hopes of certain members of his shadow cabinet this morning with a Guardian op-ed in…
Tulsi Gabbard, conservative crush
Conservative sadbois like two things: hot moms and Middle Eastern despots. Enter Tulsi Gabbard, the comely representative for Hawaii’s second…
Inside the eco-socialist paradise of the Green party primary
The Green party’s 2016 presidential ticket, headed by Jill Stein, captured just about 1 percent of the national popular vote,…
Revealed: The Brexit deal Boris Johnson wants
The shape of the Brexit fix that Boris Johnson wants from the EU’s 27 leaders is now clear. Here it is: In…
Why the Supreme Court’s Brexit case is so crucial
The opening session of the epic Supreme Court hearing into whether Boris Johnson misled the Queen and broke the law…
Biden and Corn Pop, Kavanaugh and Porn Cop
The symptoms of age-related cognitive decline include being unable to remember whether you’re in Vermont or New Hampshire, and what…
Boris Johnson’s frosty reception in Luxembourg
Is Boris Johnson approaching a Brexit breakthrough? That’s the question being asked among Conservative MPs after there appeared to be…
The BBC’s latest attack on Netflix is galling
Lord Hall of Birkenhead is feeling pretty bullish about the quality of the organisation he leads. “We’re not Netflix, we’re…
Lib Dems are the real Brexit extremists
The Lib Dems are now the most extremist party in the UK. They might not look like extremists, being made…
Is Jeremy Corbyn preparing to purge moderate Labour MPs?
Ahead of the looming general election, moderate Labour MPs are understandably upset by an instruction they say the party has given to…
A fresh assassination of Brett Kavanaugh’s character
I guess that The New York Times didn’t get the memo. Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as Associate Justice of the Supreme…
We are facing the biggest test of British democracy since 1939
It is almost 11 years to the minute since we reached the eye of the banking-crisis storm. And even though…
Britain’s political system is broken. America’s isn’t
American liberals perceive it as a jarring inconsistency: my opposition to Trump and support for Brexit. Especially outside the UK,…
Why the UK hasn’t presented any specific, backstop proposal to the EU
The EU side regularly points out that the UK government hasn’t presented any detailed proposals on what it wants to…
Corbyn is the only unthinkable outcome in this political crisis
For something that has yet to and may never happen, Brexit has reordered the fundamentals of British politics in just…
The Cheneys have always put war first and America last
Donald Trump has called the Iraq war the ‘worst single mistake’ in US history. Most Americans, including our military, agree…
Marianne Williamson is Trump’s perfect female counterpart
If the Democratic presidential debates reflected the sort of person who votes for the party, Marianne Williamson and Tulsi Gabbard…
In Houston, Biden got his teeth into Sanders
To the extent Joe Biden is capable of actually formulating coherent sentences – a questionable proposition – he delivered an…
