Will the FBI shed light on the Trump shooting?
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have this week found out the painful way that running the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
Trump scrambles to close the deal
In the early hours of this morning, Donald Trump must have been thinking that, compared to passing legislation through Congress,…
As Donald Trump declares peace, the war goes on
Donald Trump’s presidency is often compared to a reality TV show. Yet that conceit barely captures the radical strangeness of…
Who’s pushing Trump to be an Iran hawk?
‘This never would have happened if I had been president,’ says Donald Trump, whenever the international news goes from bad…
Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?
The Trump presidency is giving us all a type of news-related diabetes. So much sensational information is spewing out of…
Bannon on LA riots: ‘We’re in World War Three’
It’s all war all the time inside Steve Bannon’s War Room in Capitol Hill. “We’re in the Third World War,”…
Will Putin help Trump’s Iran deal?
Spectacular. Stunning. Game-changing. These are just three of the adjectives news reporters have used to describe Ukraine’s attack deep within…
Is Elon Musk OK?
Elon Musk understands astrophysics, yet seems to have failed to grasp the strange laws of gravity which govern Washington politics.…
What we know about the Israeli diplomat shootings in Washington so far
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, was seen pacing around Washington DC’s Jewish Museum in the minutes before last…
Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead in DC
Two Israeli Embassy staffers – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram – were shot dead outside an event in Washington, DC,…
How Donald Trump will be impeached
From the election in November to the presidential inauguration in January, media commentators took turns to pronounce the Trump “Resistance”…
Is Pope Leo XIV part of the ‘Trumplash’?
It feels a bit facile and tasteless to say that the first American Pope, Leo XIV, has been elected to…
Is the US-UK trade deal a coup for Starmer — or Trump?
It’s musical deals in world politics at the moment. Last week, Donald Trump and his senior officials intimated that a…
Trump’s big gambles are paying off
‘I run the country and the world,’ said President Donald Trump last week. That’s not really an exaggeration. In our…
What’s going on in the Pentagon?
In the past two days, three senior Defense Department officials have been suspended and one has resigned. Their departures are…
Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?
A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that…
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap
Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration…
What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed
Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response. It defies…
Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game
Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped…
Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice
Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to…
How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine
It’s great that JD Vance is all for free speech, though he does tend to shoot off his mouth in…
Chagos – the riviera of the Indian Ocean?
Keir Starmer seemed on unusually good form as he arrived in Washington last night. He cracked quite a good joke about the…
The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right
And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous…
Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?
Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also…
The many questions of the Washington plane crash
‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump…
