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No type of Brexit is worse than no Brexit at all
It’s a strange beast, the internet. On Monday night, I was slightly reluctantly dragged onto Newsnight to discuss Brexit. Attentive…
Bernie monsters the moderates
Did someone give Bernie Sanders a hit of speed or was he just especially animated? Last night’s debate performance was…
From the archives: Boris Johnson – ‘My appeal to the masses may be very limited’
Boris Johnson’s senior adviser Dominic Cummings has found himself in the news today after a video clip emerged of him…
Warren and Sanders were the big winners of the latest Democratic debate
Beto O’Rourke needed a wing and a prayer. The second Democratic presidential debate was an opportunity for the 46-year old…
The Democrats’ stillborn revolution
Like some Hobbit or Harry Potter film from 10 years ago, the Democratic debates this summer are so epic in…
How radical Islam taught the progressive Left to blame the Jews
It’s less than four years since Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-left sect seized control of the Labour Party, and yet already its…
How Canada failed to smash the cannabis black market
I had forgotten how much I disliked cannabis until I found myself under its influence, in the rain, trying and…
Boris Johnson and the end of political spin
Does the arrival of Boris Johnson in Downing Street signal the end of the politics of branding and the beginning…
Trump’s truths about Baltimore
‘You would think you were in a Third World country,’ the millionaire white New Yorker of retirement age said of Baltimore’s heavily…
The curious reaction to a niqab-wearing homophobe
Are we allowed to criticise the niqab yet? This question crossed my mind as I watched that viral clip of…
Labour is gearing up for the wrong fight against Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson is sometimes compared to Winston Churchill, not least by the man himself. Unfortunately for Britain’s new Prime Minister,…
‘Boris bounce’ puts Farage in the shade
Boris Johnson has two big advantages: the ability to drive his opponents quite mad, and strikingly low expectations. Pick up…
Can the Brexit party survive Brexit?
You have to admit that Brexit party MEPs have a fun job. Imagine turning up to work to insult your…
My advice to Boris Johnson’s minders
So the party of family values has chosen as leader a man of whom to say he has the morals…
Boris Johnson’s political strategy is the same as his Brexit strategy
Boris Johnson is running an outside / in campaign, I say in The Sun this morning.. If he’s to get…
Donald Trump, signed, sealed, delivered
Call it the Art of the Seal. When he spoke before several hundred youthful supporters at Tuesday’s Turning Point USA…
Can Boris Johnson overcome Jean-Claude Juncker?
I don’t know if Boris Johnson is as surprised to be prime minister as those who’ve known him for 20…
Seven of the most hysterical reactions to PM Boris Johnson
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is already delighting his supporters, but not everyone is happy about Britain’s new leader. Boris’s first…
Mueller testifies – Trump wins
Robert Mueller’s appearance before two Congressional committees today was something close to a disaster for the Democrats. The former special…
The painful, pointless testimony of Robert S. Mueller III
If only his legs could reach that far, Rep. Jerry Nadler would be kicking himself now. Whose idea was it…
Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy
Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels…
Dominic Raab has to handle a stand-off with Iran and his own civil servants
It’s not an easy time to become Foreign Secretary, as Dominic Raab is about to find out. There is, of…
‘Never mind the backstop, the buck stops here’: Boris launches his premiership with domestic focus
Boris Johnson has just given a rather urgent-sounding, fast-paced speech in Downing Street. So fast-paced, in fact, that it almost…
‘Doubling down’ is Donald Trump’s greatest triumph
For three years, we have been told what Donald Trump is. We have been told that he is a racist,…
Americans are watching Boris Johnson with a morbid interest
Donald Trump didn’t take long to congratulate Boris Johnson on his victory in today’s Tory leadership race. ‘He will be…
