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Are all the Labour leadership candidates Corbynites now?
This week every contender for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership signed up to a series of pledges issued by…
Hasn’t Israel Folau been punished enough?
When Israel Folau settled his multi-million dollar grievance with Rugby Australia after he was sacked over a social media post…
Boris should take back control from the House of Lords
I imagine that in recommending Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke for peerages, Boris Johnson sees himself in engaging in a…
Trump should build to last
Will the government finally stop giving the concrete finger to popular taste by erecting ugly, expensive and unsustainable buildings with…
The coronavirus outbreak shows WHO is afraid of China
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sometimes been too slow to properly react to major outbreaks of illnesses or diseases.…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s Cold War pact with Cuba
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov kicked off his tour of Latin America this week with a visit to Cuba. The…
A night with Bernie Sanders’s brother
Larry Sanders, Bernie’s literal bro, moved to England in the late 1960s and settled in picture postcard Oxford. I was…
Of course president Trump was acquitted
The impeachment of President Trump was unfounded in law and in fact and was never anything but a smear-job organised…
Who saw that coming? Trump acquitted
It was all going so well for Donald Trump. Then came Mitt Romney. The Utah Republican stole the show. In…
The motivation behind the government’s plans for the BBC
Since Boris Johnson returned to No. 10 with a majority of 80, there’s been a growing sense that the Prime…
Iowa offers more questions than answers
The results from Iowa are still trickling in, but however much confusion there is in Des Moines, the choices that…
After Iowa, Donald Trump looks invincible
Any future history of the decline and fall of the American Republic ought to include a page or two on…
Quassem Soleimani’s terror lives on for Israelis
Quassem Soleimani is dead but in Israel fear of his warped legacy lives on. The Iranian general was key to…
Trump’s State of the Union was a perfect chance to gloat at Democrats
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address began with a snub to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she extended her hand across…
Five priceless moments from Trump’s State of the Union address
As Democrats watch their single accomplishment, impeaching the president, go up in flames before their eyes and the nation remains…
Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address was nothing less than magnificent
One of the many things that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that sound good but aren’t true is this: ‘There are…
Pelosi ‘might as well rip up any plans for attracting independent voters’, says Trump campaign
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh condemned Nancy Pelosi for ripping up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union…
No one saw Pete Buttigieg coming except himself
Small wonder that Joe Biden skedaddled out of Iowa as fast as he could to New Hampshire. It looks like…
NeverTrump 2020 died in Iowa
In a night that saw a nightmare ending (or beginning) for the Democratic party in Iowa, one thing became resoundingly…
Iowa Democrats couldn’t have picked a worse time to mess up
What happened — or didn’t happen — in Iowa last night is unbelievably bad. It is an international embarrassment, one…
Void the Iowa caucus results
Perhaps the most annoying response to last night’s Iowa debacle are the haughty scolds from journalists and pundits chastising anyone…
Boris’s eco plans will end in tears
At least no one will be able to accuse it of not caring about the environment. The government has just…
The Iowa shambles is a delight for Trump
Voters in Iowa lined up in high-school gymnasiums across the state last night to prepare for a long few hours…
Why the Iowa voting fiasco matters
The Monday night caucuses were the biggest moment in four years for Iowa Democratic Party. They screwed it up beyond…
The Democrats’ Iowa shambles is a delight for Donald Trump
Voters in Iowa lined up in high-school gymnasiums across the state last night to prepare for a long few hours…
