Joe Biden
Why John Bolton won’t win his war on Trump
The first sentence of the New York Times report on John Bolton’s tell-all memoir about his time in the Trump…
You come at the Trump, you best not miss
The third presidential impeachment in US history has now reached the Senate. Like the first two, this one is almost…
Polls apart
This article is in The Spectator’s January 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. Galileo famously said that the book of nature is written…
Kamala Harris is not your vice president
Little over a week on from the sad demise of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, the California senator is the…
The Democrats’ open mic night in Atlanta
Fear not everyone — there are only seven Democratic debates left this cycle. As if the prospect of a fifth…
The wages of Trump fixation
Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach…
Republican congressmen are loyal enough to storm committee meetings for Trump
Who knew that House Republicans would embrace civil disobedience? About two dozen legislators led by Republican firebrand Matt Gaetz stormed…
Joe Biden: victim of the cult of youth
Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack, but Joe Biden’s campaign may be the casualty. The 78-year-old Sanders’s physical condition renewed…
Donald Trump’s blunderful presidency
There’s a story about Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign that, apocryphal or not, explains why he’s now facing…
Impeachment is a bad bet for everyone
Is Donald Trump going to be impeached? Nancy Pelosi is not giving herself much room to maneuver: once a Democratic-led…
Joe Biden versus the internet
The paradox of Joe Biden is well known. How does the experienced, effective, formidable politician turn into such a fiasco-stalked…
Joe Biden’s fractious relationship with the truth
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. ‘He ran twice for president and lost when he…
Kiev won’t chicken out over Trump’s desired Biden probe
For several years Donald Trump has depicted himself as a kind of Roger Thornhill, the advertising executive in Alfred Hitchcock’s…
Biden and Corn Pop, Kavanaugh and Porn Cop
The symptoms of age-related cognitive decline include being unable to remember whether you’re in Vermont or New Hampshire, and what…
In Houston, Biden got his teeth into Sanders
To the extent Joe Biden is capable of actually formulating coherent sentences – a questionable proposition – he delivered an…
What if Elizabeth Warren blows it in Houston?
Get your skates on! The Democrats on Ice roadshow rolls into Houston this evening, and the media are poised for…
Joe Biden won’t win
Joe Biden has led Democratic polls since day one, holding the kind of consistent lead within his party that Donald…
Joe Biden isn’t ‘gaffe-prone’, he’s losing his mind
‘Gaffe?’ Who invented this nonsensical term? Its only common usage seems to be among political journalists and pundits, as a…
Joe Biden’s Grandpa Smurf routine won’t beat Trump
Joe Biden possesses the elixir of ordinariness, despite the appearance of having picked his hair and teeth out of a…
Biden’s ‘white supremacist’ answer shows why he’s leading
‘Why are you so hooked on that?’ Joe Biden asked a reporter in Iowa Thursday. She’d asked him to label…
Trump heals the nation…by attacking Beto for his ‘phony name’
The Democratic party, mired in infighting only a week ago, has reunited over racial division. New Jersey senator Cory Booker…
What will anyone learn from the Detroit debates?
The DNC are ditching porn stars, yacht rides and Pitbull for rusty motors and the 8 Mile Road, as the…
The Democratic debates are proving to be the perfect advert for Trump
I have plenty of shamefaced company in having rashly predicted, as pundits are warned never to do, that Donald Trump…
Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground
Are both Donald Trump and Joe Biden going to run to the center? Yesterday Trump delivered a fairly anodyne speech…
Is Joe Biden the Democrat’s Jeb Bush?
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when Joe Biden was the man to beat in the race to…
