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Why we could be heading for a third vote on May’s Brexit deal

13 March 2019 7:10 am

Late last night, there was a sense of optimism among ministers that the government’s revised deal might have a chance.…

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If Joe Biden is so manly, why can’t he just admit he’s running?

13 March 2019 3:40 am

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

12 March 2019 6:55 pm

In order to turn things around with her Brexit deal, Theresa May needs a domino effect. She needs to somehow…

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Vice vs vice: Cheney barbecues Pence in Georgia

12 March 2019 12:13 pm

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?

9 March 2019 10:18 pm

The government’s efforts to get changes to the backstop have run into a brick wall in Brussels. The EU thinks,…

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To win, the Democrats need to be more like Trump

9 March 2019 4:11 am

Here is the tragedy of the Democratic party in 2019: its partisans are left to hope that personal hatred of…

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Why the Democrats have gone off Israel

8 March 2019 11:57 pm

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?

25 February 2019 8:54 pm

Theresa May begins the week with a chunk of her party growing increasingly frustrated with her handling of Brexit. The…

Prince Harry, G-G?

10 November 2018 9:00 am

Leadership beyond politics, a quality well demonstrated by Prince Harry, is one of the greatest virtues of our constitutional system.…

Russia’s puritan revolution

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

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

7 July 2016 4:00 am

No 1960s vision of the 21st century was complete without an attentive robot-scuttling around doing household chores. At the time,…