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The latest government shambles could help May pass her deal
This evening Theresa May’s week went from awful to terrible. After her deal was heavily defeated for a second time…
The Chinese must be furious. Imagine blowing $1.3m on Jeb!
Jeb! We hardly knew ye. The 2016 election seems soooo long ago. There was a time, for about 15 minutes,…
The Brexiteers have blown it
If, as Rod Liddle says, Brexit has been killed there is no shortage of suspects. 75 of them, in fact.…
Brexit is now dead
And that, my lovely friends, is it for Brexit. You kippers and ERGers who think we’ll leave with no deal,…
We’re now heading for a no-deal Brexit – but not just yet
A member of the Cabinet uttered just one word to me about this latest humiliating defeat for the Prime Minister…
Why we could be heading for a third vote on May’s Brexit deal
Late last night, there was a sense of optimism among ministers that the government’s revised deal might have a chance.…
If Joe Biden is so manly, why can’t he just admit he’s running?
Has Joe Biden finally made up his mind? The former vice president has told a House lawmaker that he is…
What Theresa May needs to go right today to avoid another historic defeat
In order to turn things around with her Brexit deal, Theresa May needs a domino effect. She needs to somehow…
Vice vs vice: Cheney barbecues Pence in Georgia
It was no cakewalk for Vice President Mike Pence. He had showed up in Sea Island, Ga., reckoning that he…
Is there any way that May’s deal could pass on Tuesday?
The government’s efforts to get changes to the backstop have run into a brick wall in Brussels. The EU thinks,…
To win, the Democrats need to be more like Trump
Here is the tragedy of the Democratic party in 2019: its partisans are left to hope that personal hatred of…
Why the Democrats have gone off Israel
Not so long ago in America, immediately after a Democratic politician announced a run for president, he or she would…
How can the government avoid defeat this week?
Theresa May begins the week with a chunk of her party growing increasingly frustrated with her handling of Brexit. The…
Prince Harry, G-G?
Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system.…
Russia’s puritan revolution
Last weekend a group of young activists turned out on a Moscow street to protest against western decadence. They were…
Big boxes are the next growth story
Some time ago my eye was caught by the story of a boy who had taken his father’s credit card…
This could be the end of the Labour party
English Conservatives and Scottish Nationalists do not wake at 3 a.m., drenched in sweat, worrying about how they can defeat…
The rise and fall of the Chumocracy
All political careers end in failure — it’s the dynastic death throes you want to watch. The leader departs with…
Let’s grow our own money
No 1960s vision of the 21st century was complete without an attentive robot-scuttling around doing household chores. At the time,…
