Donald Trump
‘I have spent my life with people underestimating me’: Jeremy Hunt interviewed
When a head of state flies in for a state visit, it’s traditional for the Foreign Secretary to lead the…
In an era of illusion and fantasy, let the wine do the talking
We had all said everything there was to say about Brexit a hundred times over. So the conversation took different…
Joe Biden is a Trump Republican
If Joe Biden snatches the White House from Donald Trump in 2020, he will govern as a modern liberal. This…
Trump’s Mexican tariffs could wipe out his 2017 tax cut
Donald Trump likes to brag about his deal-making prowess. During his visit to the United Kingdom, he’s touting the prospects…
Donald Trump should not stoop to Sadiq Khan’s level
In July last year, when Trump last visited Britain, I wrote a post saying ‘Admit it, Donald Trump is right…
The Trump card: We should welcome Donald Trump’s visit – and treat him as a friend
The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, Donald Trump arrived by helicopter at Turnberry, his golf course…
Why Ceausescu’s 1978 state visit was far more humiliating than Trump’s ever could be
The Queen has seldom had more holes in a state banquet seating plan. The leader of the opposition, the shadow…
A presidential pardon for my ‘miraculously shrinking crime’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
Iran alone: Tehran’s perspective on escalating hostilities
On 20 May, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, predicted that Donald Trump would fail to subdue Iran just as…
My feud with Conrad Black
Goody goody gumdrops! The Donald has pardoned Lord Black and I couldn’t be happier. Conrad got a bum deal and…
Trump told me I got a ‘bad rap’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
Trump’s Iran strategy: Keep your enemies close and your hawks closer
Washington, DC Donald Trump has an itchy trigger finger, and his name is John Bolton. The President’s national security adviser…
Racist incidents are down since Trump’s election. Yes, really
The election of Donald Trump has, of course, unleashed the latent racist which lurks within millions of Americans. We know…
When populism fails
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Donald J. Trump ran his insurgency presidential campaign against the coordinated opposition…
Satirising the global society: Only Americans Burn in Hell, by Jarett Kobek, reviewed
An immortal faery queen from a magical gynocratic island arrives in Los Angeles to track down her missing daughter. This…
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…
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…
Democrats are tearing themselves apart over Trump – again
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted, public report is nearly a week old, but the Democratic party in Washington is still…
The comedy and tragedy of Trump
New York On 21 April 1980, Rosie Ruiz won the fabled Boston Marathon in record time and looked as fresh…
The genesis of the #NeverBernie movement
Is a #NeverBernie faction starting to emerge among Democrats? Sanders is on a roll after his appearance at a town…
The Trump 2020 campaign is much, much more formidable than 2016
Almost every day, somebody somewhere recycles the idea that President Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to be president. He never…
The soiling of Julian Assange
Here’s an intense irony for you. The journalistic activity for which Julian Assange has been indicted in the Eastern District…
Portrait of the week: Brexit flextension, the demise of Debenhams and a real shower in the Commons
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, wrote to Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, asking for an extension…
Roger Stone: I will be vindicated
Undisclosed location, Florida In January, when heavily armed FBI agents swarmed my south Florida home to arrest me for a…
Barr investigates the investigators
‘OBAMA TAPPED MY PHONES!’ When President Trump blared out this accusation in a series of tweets in March 2017, the White…
