Ron vs Don
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.’…
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…
The Joe must 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…
It’s a royal knockout
The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk
The Twitter Files just got a lot more interesting
As I wrote earlier, last week Matt Taibbi, the journalist chosen by Elon Musk to reveal what really happened behind-the-app…
How Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story
For weeks now, Twitter’s new chief Elon Musk has been promising to reveal what really happened behind the scenes at…
Ye gods
Is Kanye West really out to derail Trump?
Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024?
Donald Trump has been running for president for at least a decade. His campaign did not start on June 16,…
MAGA forever
The world changes but Trump stays the same
Is Nixon the most misunderstood president in history?
Has the reputation of any American statesman been more effectively trashed than that of Richard Milhous Nixon? Donald Trump’s, perhaps…
Divided states
America’s only clear election winner is paranoia
Midterms: No red wave, America is still very divided
Is it a red wave? A ripple? Or a trickle? Nobody quite knows. However, what looks certain is that the…
How worried are the Democrats about the US midterms?
‘There are two things that are important in politics,’ said the 19th century senator Mark Hanna. ‘The first is money…
