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Harry and Meghan’s farewell tour
Farewell tours tend to be the preserve of ageing rock stars. Royals, cut from the cloth of Elizabeth Windsor, are…
The amazing gracelessness of Elizabeth Warren
The stars were out in force on Saturday Night Live last night — Daniel Craig, the Weeknd and, er, Elizabeth…
The ugliness of carbon zero
The government is trying to get onshore windfarms going again, defying the damage they do to unique environments. I am…
Joe Biden, restoration man
The results of Super Tuesday show that while Joe Biden can’t be described as coherent, the Biden campaign has found…
Donald Trump’s ‘hunch’ about coronavirus is likely correct
Donald Trump is in the soup again, this time for appearing to reject the World Health Organisation’s estimate for the death…
The row over Suzanne Moore is a test for the Guardian's liberal credentials
The Guardian is a great newspaper and it remains so even if, puzzlingly, more than a fifth of its workforce…
Inside the relationship between politicians and the media
Global system breakdown has defined all our lives for 13 years. From the banking system’s boom and bust to the…
Why I've lost respect for Jeremy Clarkson
If Jeremy Clarkson had lived through the Wars of the Roses he would have been neither a Yorkist nor a…
Are you suffering from Elizabeth Warren Denial Syndrome?
Elizabeth Warren did not die in a tragic accident yesterday. But judging by the reactions of America’s journalists and academics,…
Coronavirus is Bernie Sanders’s running mate
Donald Trump claimed his response to the coronavirus could ‘help, not hurt’ him in the 2020 election, but Cockburn suspects…
Elizabeth Warren's rollercoaster presidential bid comes to an end
It was a long and winding rollercoaster ride for Elizabeth Warren on the presidential campaign trail. And when that ride…
Warren’s decision not to endorse a candidate is a kind of endorsement
She wanted to be the Tin Lizzie of the presidential race, chugging to victory as the champion of the middle-class.…
Warren stops persisting
Being president just wasn’t in Elizabeth Warren’s DNA. The New York Times’s favorite candidate has nevertheless stopped persisting. After finishing…
A short list of Biden backers who declared Trump mentally unfit for office
If there ever were a theme to emerge from the Trump era it is this: hypocrisy. We’re all guilty, we…
Watch: Boris struggles to say if he'll change nappies
After a prolonged spell of avoiding media interviews, Boris Johnson finally came out of hiding today and appeared on breakfast television. The…
Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?
Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…
Super Tuesday’s real winner was Donald Trump
Was I wrong, or only early? After Joe Biden’s win in the South Carolina primary, I wrote that his victory…
2020, the Year of the Drunken Uncle
How in the world did Chris Matthews get himself fired? To be sure, the man did stick his foot in…
Bye bye Bloomberg
‘I’m a believer in using data to inform decisions,’ Michael Bloomberg said in a statement as he ended his campaign.…
Is Joe Biden really a sure thing?
How quickly the campaigns of Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar — all billed as moderates — have assimilated…
Joe’s Super Thursday!
I met Joe Biden last month, after one of his town hall events in New Hampshire. His team had turned…
Could Joe Biden be the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
The 2020 struggle for the White House is shaping up to look a lot like the 2016 contest. Once more…
Will Japan ban its 'offensive' Rising Sun flag at the Tokyo Olympics?
Ant and Dec have done most things in their long careers in light entertainment. But the versatile duo broke new…
Dispirited Democrats rally behind zombie campaign on Super Tuesday
Joe Biden crawled ahead early in Tuesday night’s thrilling electric scooter race between two near-octogenarians, whereas of midnight Biden took…
The Democratic primary is now a two-man race between Biden and Bernie
With the votes still being accumulated and the final counts in California and Texas still to be determined, it’s a…
