Donald Trump
Is Steve Bannon really pulling the strings in Team Trump?
Donald J. Trump always keeps everyone guessing. Is the president-elect ditching his crazy act in order to bring in a…
I met Donald Trump’s Russian fan club (and fought them on TV)
Moscow To the Union Jack pub on Potapovsky Lane for a US election night party. The jolly Muscovite Trump supporters…
The monkey-brained case for Donald Trump
A few years ago I was asked to speak at a conference in New York. ‘Where would be the best…
Think Americans are angry now? Wait until Hillary’s in charge
What to expect if – when – a second Clinton finally hacks her way to the top
Jeeves and a Man called The Donald
A story about Bertie Wooster and a man called The Donald, with apologies to P.G. Wodehouse
The view from New York tells me that Trump can win it
New York I have never seen anything like it. If Adolf Hitler were running for president, he would match…
Only one man can heal Donald Trump’s rift with the neocons
His choice of running mate could heal the rift with the neocons
It’s Trump vs Hillary: a race that should terrify all conservatives
Following Tuesday night’s Indiana primaries, the race for the Republican nomination is effectively over. Talk of Donald Trump being overhauled…
Portrait of the Week: Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis, Leicester City’s triumph, Gerry Adams Twitter storm
Home Naz Shah MP was suspended from the Labour Party after the blogger Guido Fawkes revealed that in 2014, nine…
Donald Trump is an awkward ginger snob – and he owes me £20
I am no admirer of Donald Trump — not because he is a doomsayer and professional patriot but because he…
It’s not just Donald Trump, the right is tearing itself apart everywhere
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
Long may we Brits laugh at our absurd demagogues
In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke warned that ‘pure democracy’ was as dangerous as absolute monarchy. ‘Of…
Whoever invented the referendum deserves a kicking
My favourite quote of the year so far comes from the author Fay Weldon. ‘If this were an all-woman society,’…
Meet the Donald Trump of ancient Athens (he won)
Why does the Republican party loathe Donald Trump? Because Trump is the ultimate loose cannon, beholden to no one. And…
I have seen the future, and it’s a racist, filthy-mouthed teenage robot
‘I’m a nice person,’ said the robot. ‘I just hate everybody.’ Maybe you know the feeling. The robot in question…
Yes, Donald Trump is grotesque. But I will never vote for Hillary Clinton
And that’s why I’ll never vote for Hillary
Why the Republican elite couldn’t stop Donald Trump
The political climate that brought about his rise is in fact a worldwide phenomenon
The gilded prisons of America’s elderly rich
I have been driving many hundreds of miles across America, interviewing Vietnam veterans for a book. Though I have been…
Portrait of the week
Home An official analysis by the Cabinet Office said that if Britain left the EU it would lead to a…
Flying from Donald Trump to the beautiful ruins of another empire
Just as the presidential race in America started to get really crazy, I left for India. On the morning of…
Trade comes before trade agreements (but the ‘in’ campaign don’t think so)
The government, or at least David Cameron’s bit of it, seems to think that trade is something that takes place…
Donald Trump's angry America
Welcome to Trump’s America, where greed is great and viciousness beautiful
Who is more undemocratic, Putin or Brussel? I say Brussels — by far
The rich are under attack nowadays, never more so than in America, where The Donald continues to trump his critics,…
Two big hitters leave the crease: Brendon McCullum and Hugh McIlvanney
Two great men have just bowed out from their chosen trades and it is bloody sad. The New Zealand cricket…
Coming to terms with Trump is like an early-stage cancer diagnosis
Don’t blame the voters – this is a monster of the GOP’s making
