How badly will Nikki Haley lose in South Carolina?
Will Nikki Haley defy expectations and only lose by 20 points today? That seems to be closest thing to a…
Letitia James is helping Trump get re-elected
“Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,” said the New York attorney general Letitia James, doing her best…
Joe Biden isn’t working
Joe Biden isn’t working. That much has been clear to anyone who has followed American politics for the past four…
Nobody can stop Vladimir Putin… from talking
The trouble with ageing authoritarians is not necessarily that nobody dares tell them they are wrong. It’s that nobody ever…
Why shouldn’t Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin?
In September, 1934, William Randolph Hearst, the most famous journalist and publisher in the world, visited Berlin and interviewed Adolf…
America is getting closer to open conflict with Iran
‘Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy,’ said Sun Tzu. The Biden administration takes the opposite approach. America’s Commander-in-Chief spent much of…
Is Taylor Swift ‘profoundly powerful’ when it comes to politics?
It’s not yet February, and already we have a clear idea of what Joe Biden’s re-election will be all about:…
Trump is right – the world is less stable under Biden
Donald Trump said yesterday that we’re ‘on the brink of world war three’ after a suicide drone killed three US…
Donald Trump swallows New Hampshire
Donald Trump has, like a boa constrictor, squeezed the life out of the Republican primary cycle. Last night, he swallowed New…
Will Nikki Haley pull out on Wednesday?
New Hampshire votes tomorrow and today Nikki Haley has just two planned events. She has a morning meet-and-greet in the…
Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of…
Nikki Haley says being Trump’s vice president is ‘off the table’
The theory that Donald Trump will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president refuses to die – in spite of…
Everything is falling into place for Donald Trump
Vivek Ramaswamy, the impressive podcast guest who has spent the last few months pretending to be a serious Republican presidential…
Why Trump can’t be stopped
Donald Trump has dominated Republican politics for so long that it can be hard to remember the time when he…
Biden’s phony January 6 memorialization
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, January 5, the president will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to…
Biden’s cynical attempt to memorialise 6 January
It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, 5 January, the US President will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,…
Get ready for the 2024 Great Election Freak-Out
“If Trump wasn’t running,” said Joe Biden last week, “I’m not sure I’d be running.” That’s a curiously uninspiring remark…
The lawfare against Donald Trump is increasingly farcical
Does kicking a popular candidate off the electoral ballot protect democracy? Or is that in fact deeply anti-democratic? These are…
Nikki Haley’s popularity is probably because of media desperation
Nikki Haley is now the favourite ‘not Donald Trump’ candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.…
Hunter Biden’s MAGA attack won’t throw Republicans off the scent
Hunter Biden was lost and now he’s found. That was the quasi-Biblical subtext of the president’s prodigal son’s speech outside…
Ron DeSantis just isn’t presidential material
Sans Trump, the Republican presidential debates of 2023 have mostly been piddling contests in a shallow pool. We’ve seen nasty…
Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?
Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he…