Is Donald Trump America’s Marine Le Pen?
‘Democracy,’ said H.L. Mencken, ‘is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.’ As we approach 2024, America…
Why did Rupert Murdoch fire his most successful host?
Ever since it began in 2016, Tucker Carlson Tonight has been easily the most interesting news show on American television.…
Can Joe Biden win again?
In America last week, a 92-year-old media titan agreed to pay out a $787 million (£632 million) settlement with Dominion…
The Murdoch empire’s darkest secret
One way or another, we’re almost all ‘content creators’ these days, humble social-media serfs toiling away in the Silicon Valley…
Get ready for the Passion of The Donald
It won’t have escaped Donald Trump’s notice that his arrest has come during Holy Week, when our Lord and Saviour…
Biden, Trump and iniquity in America
Shall we talk about double standards? People scoff at ‘whataboutery’, yet sometimes an iniquity towards one side becomes so absurd…
The overlapping lives of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
Often spoken of in the same breath, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are not in fact all that similar. Both…
The Stormy Daniels case won’t stop Donald Trump
The 45th president of the United States of America — and the leading Republican contender to win back the White…
Why is bitcoin surging following SVB’s collapse?
For more than a decade, bitcoin bores have been banging on about cryptocurrency as the future of money. The emergence…
Don vs Ron: the fight for the American right
The fight for the Republican party nomination
The great villain of Covid is China. Not Matt Hancock
The Telegraph has a hell of a scoop with its lockdown files, aka Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps. It’s a major public…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the ‘Windsor Framework’
For amateur talking heads, the words ‘protocol’ and ‘framework’ have always been troubling. Such terms suggest muddling technical detail, constitutional…
Fox News’s ‘silent ban’ on Donald Trump
It’s by now well-established that Fox News, the American media behemoth, is no longer on the Trump Train. Trumpworld’s union…
Joe Biden’s long history in Ukraine
It was only a matter of time before Joe Biden made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev. In the year since…
Joe Biden does America First
‘There have been so many accomplishments under this administration, it can be difficult to list them in a distilled way.’…
Joe Biden’s docudrama
If Britain’s great flaw is the class system, America’s might be its obsession with classifying official information. There’s a reason…
Sorry, folks, Donald Trump isn’t going away
Almost all of us can recite the reasons why Donald Trump’s political career should be over. We hear them again…
Who do Harry and Meghan think they are?
It is quite funny that Jeremy Clarkson, having written that silly joke about the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked…
Is this the beginning of the end for Joe Biden?
Has Joe Biden suddenly outlived his usefulness? That is what many conspiracy-theory-inclined Americans are saying as the fuss mounts around…
Did Biden also illegally hoard top-secret documents?
Remember the tale of Donald Trump and the ‘illegal hoarding’ of the top-secret documents? It was only last summer. On…
Six more years: how long can Biden go on?
Can anyone stop Biden from running again in 2024?
My debt to Pope Benedict XVI
Back in early 2019, my wife discovered that she was pregnant with our fourth child. A few weeks later, we…
What Meghan Markle’s digital army has in common with trans activists
If Meghan Markle’s army of digital defenders didn’t exist, we’d have to make them up. Otherwise, the never-ending controversy over…
How long can the Democrats keep Trump in legal limbo?
Yesterday, a political committee set up in order to condemn Donald Trump condemned Donald Trump. It would have been truly…
The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk
The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk