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When populism fails
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Donald J. Trump ran his insurgency presidential campaign against the coordinated opposition…
A crowdfunded prosecution of Boris Johnson is nothing to celebrate
I have often wondered what would happen if politicians were bound by the same rules as advertisers, or if manifestos…
When will Theresa May be removed by her party?
I understand Sir Graham Brady – chairman of the 1922 committee and therefore representative of all Tory MPs – expects…
Are you ready for the Summer of Biden?
Ah Biden, Sleepy Joe, the gaffe machine from Scranton, Penn. He’s familiar to everyone, but an unknown quantity as a…
Is war with Silicon Valley a Trump 2020 strategy?
The world, or at least Twitter, awoke Saturday morning to an extraordinary series of retweets from the site’s most infamous…
A booming economy makes Trump look wiser than his detractors
What delicious reading it makes going back over Paul Krugman’s missive in the New York Times on the morning after…
How the Tories can turn their dire election results around
The local election results are dire for both the Tories and Labour. The Tories have lost over a thousand seats—and…
Ministers shouldn’t be able to escape their mistakes
There is little doubt that Rory Stewart is amply-qualified for his belated promotion to the cabinet. The new International Development…
Barr prompts a new low in MSNBC media madness
Coverage of Trump has caused mainstream news media to deviate from standard journalistic norms on too many occasions to count,…
Is the Guardian practising what it preaches on climate change?
The Guardian has an advertisement today from Sainsbury’s. Nothing wrong with that; respectable paper, respectable retailer. It’s the nature of the…
Gavin Williamson sacked, but denies guilt on Huawei leak. What went on?
Gavin Williamson has been sacked from government this afternoon following an investigation into the Huawei leak from a meeting of…
Pointless PMQs shows up the government’s powerlessness
Most MPs’ minds are elsewhere at the moment, with the local elections on Thursday and the European elections looming at…
The Government wants Brexit talks to end next week. But can they end well?
Will the cross-party Brexit talks ever end? They seem to have been going on for almost as long as the…
The madness of the Democratic impeachment crusade
Since the release of the Mueller report, with each passing day comes a new and increasingly strident demand to impeach…
It doesn’t matter who Trump runs with: he’ll still win in 2020
At this point, we can relegate the admonitions and advisories to the small print reserved for the disclaimers about possible…
The Tories are stuck in the middle with May. Here’s what they should do next
The Tories have a debate on their hands about what direction they should go in. Do they return to the…
Joe Biden is already under Trump’s skin
During his speech today at the NRA convention in Indianapolis, Donald Trump shot himself in the foot. ‘Now we’re going…
How bad will the local elections be for the Tories?
Next week, the Tories will face their first big electoral test since failing to deliver Brexit on time. On Thursday,…
The 2020 primary’s pivot to video
‘Charlottesville, Virginia is home to the author of one of the great documents in human history. We know it by…
Britain’s Huawei gamble is sure to anger Donald Trump
Just hours after Donald Trump’s long-delayed state visit to Britain was finally confirmed, reports surfaced that Theresa May and her…
Will May continue to avoid naming a date for her departure?
The executive of the 1922 Committee have decided not to change its rules which prevent another vote of no confidence…
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political…
Without the Mueller probe, Trump is sunk
For so long, Democrats thought that the Mueller investigation would bring down President Donald Trump. The truth could be the…
The trouble with Greta Thunberg
In popular mythology Greta Thunberg is a one-girl revolution who has inspired millions of young people into action by being…
Johnson enters the race
The European elections are shaping up to be a colourful affair with both the Brexit Party and pro-EU Change UK…
