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…
The Tories are addicted to self-destruction
Well, that round of party unity was fun, wasn’t it? Rishi Sunak, the pragmatist, ushered in an unfamiliar sense of…
Just how bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?
Towards the end of the summer, almost in a spirit of contrarianism, well-informed Americans started talking about President Joe Biden…
Blue murder
Should the Democrats expect a shellacking in the US midterms?
A bluffer’s guide to (yet another) Tory leadership race
Here we go again – another leadership contest, another round of intense Westminster blather. Lightweight would-be commentators may feel their…
Meghan Markle’s podcast is about the word ‘crazy.’ And it’s barking mad
‘Calling someone crazy or hysterical completely dismisses their experience,’ says Meghan Markle in her strangely throaty professional podcast voice. ‘It…
Ten handy phrases for bluffing your way through the new financial crisis
Aggggghhh! Woooaaaah! Urrrggghhhh! Those screams you hear are ten thousand self-appointed financial experts howling into the existential abyss. The Bank…
Joe Biden’s Taiwan muddle has become untenable
Under Joe Biden, the longstanding American policy of ‘strategic ambiguity’ vis-à-vis Taiwan has taken on a curious post-modern quality. The…
Biden is treating his political opponents like domestic terrorists
What is going on in America? A celebrity eccentric known as ‘the Pillow guy’, his real name is Mike Lindell,…
Get ready for Liz mania
Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…
Arche-enemies
Harry and Meghan are back with a vengeance
Is Joe Biden… winning?
Well, well, well – Joe Biden seems to be making something of a comeback. His approval rating, which dropped to…
Farewell, St Anthony Fauci
So farewell, Anthony Fauci, the unfortunate face of America’s pandemic response. Well, not so unfortunate – the doctor is stepping…
Is Liz Cheney a ‘martyr’ to Republican values?
In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we’ll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to…
Going bananas
America is fast regressing
Meghan Markle’s feelings don’t care about your facts
Did Meghan Markle grow up as an only child? She said she did, in that famously awful Oprah interview. Yet…
