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Serious and gripping – though Trump disagrees: The Apprentice reviewed

19 October 2024 9:00 am

The Apprentice is a dramatised biopic of Donald Trump, covering his early business years. He has called the film ‘FAKE…

Slating Nato won’t help Donald Trump

27 September 2024 8:57 pm

Reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this week, Donald Trump reiterated his long-standing ambition to bring Russia’s…

What doesn’t kill Trump makes him stronger

16 September 2024 9:16 am

As if there hadn’t been enough drama in America in 2024, Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt. The attempted…

Is America fit to lead the West?

29 June 2024 4:00 pm

Foreign policy rarely plays a significant role in a US presidential election. Domestic issues, the economy, money in the pocket,…

Will Michelle Obama run? The runners and riders to replace Joe Biden

29 June 2024 3:31 am

After a lamentable performance in Thursday’s debate, much of the Democrat press corps is demanding that Joe Biden step aside.…

After last night, nobody believes in Joe Biden

28 June 2024 7:07 pm

‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he…

‘That was painful’: CNN mourns Biden implosion

28 June 2024 6:33 pm

Oh dear. The Democrats are reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of the election (the…

What will Americans make of Trump’s guilty verdict?

31 May 2024 6:02 pm

The indictment and trial on a thin charge, the gagging of a presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign,…

How did the internet become so horrific?

17 February 2024 9:00 am

Plus: the joy of hearing lawyers argue

Rizal Van Geyzel races through his 60-minute set peppering the material with snatches of Chinese, Tamil and Malay

Trump, Diogenes, the Mitfords and Malaysian comedy: Edinburgh Fringe round-up

19 August 2023 9:00 am

The Mitfords is a superb one-woman show by Emma Wilkinson Wright who focuses her attention on Unity, Diana and Jessica.…

Ron DeSantis is the Republican party’s best hope

11 January 2023 5:53 pm

Florida governor Ron DeSantis is shaping up as the GOP’s best hope for next year’s US presidential election. Large parts…

Helpless human puppets: Liberation Day, by George Saunders, reviewed

29 October 2022 9:00 am

George Saunders’s handbook published last year, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, gave masterclasses on seven short stories…

January 6 has turned Trump fans into NeverTrumpers

26 July 2022 4:00 pm

The 6 January hearings are a bit of a kangaroo court, since no one is trying to poke holes in…

Did postmodernism pave the way for Donald Trump?

14 May 2022 9:00 am

David Shields is an American author who has decided to collate many of the questions he’s been asked in interviews…

Why are progressives scared of Elon Musk?

12 May 2022 1:14 am

Billionaire edgelord Elon Musk has just given progressives another reason to dread his ongoing attempt to buy Twitter. The founder…

This Trump satire is too soft on Sleepy Joe and Cackling Kamala: The 47th at the Old Vic reviewed

23 April 2022 9:00 am

Trump is said to be a gift for bad satirists and a problem for good ones. He dominates Mike Bartlett’s…

Why the silence over Biden's links with Ukraine?

23 February 2022 6:28 pm

‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…

Putin must look at the West and laugh

23 February 2022 6:15 am

Whatever the West’s response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, the crisis demonstrates the limitations of western politics and policy…

Read: Tucker Carlson on Ukraine, ethno-nationalism and M&Ms

28 January 2022 5:00 am

This week, Tucker Carlson spoke to Freddy Gray on the latest episode of Spectator TV. You can watch their conversation…

Will Trump's pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?

29 December 2021 2:55 am

Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…

New York’s vaccine passport scheme could have a nasty side effect

4 August 2021 7:11 pm

The latest French export to the United States is a requirement that people show proof of vaccination to visit indoor bars,…

Biden must learn from Trump's mistakes on North Korea

4 March 2021 5:30 pm

Anniversaries are usually celebratory occasions, but not this one. It’s now been two years since the infamous Hanoi summit between Donald…

Welcome to Trump’s second term

3 March 2021 2:41 am

President Biden’s emphatic assertion that ‘America is back’ at the Munich Security Conference last month was met with a lukewarm…

No, Spike Lee: Donald Trump is not like Hitler

26 January 2021 2:48 am

I wish people would stop comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Not because I’m worried about Trump’s feelings — he’s…

Joe Biden’s plan to keep the Democrats in power

20 January 2021 8:24 pm

Today the Trump administration ends. The first time a President has failed to win re-election since 1992. The first time…