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How Russia is surrendering Kherson
The Russian evacuation of Kherson is now well underway, leaving an expected trail of destruction in its wake. Russian soldiers…
Massachusetts Republicans pay the price for Trumpism
Massachusetts voters are known to be pragmatic. Despite being one of the most liberal states in the country, Massachusetts has…
Don’t expect the midterms to change our foreign policy
President Joe Biden and his Democratic allies were expecting a romp on Tuesday. So were many of the career prognosticators…
Matt Hancock starts his jungle jamboree
‘Mr Hancock, I presume?’ was the reaction our former Health Secretary presumably hoped to elicit upon entering the jungle last…
The eradication of the victims of Enniskillen
In Northern Ireland, the dead are being eradicated. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the IRA bombing of a remembrance…
Trumpism is dead, long live populism!
Donald Trump is done for. Trumpism too. That’s the main takeaway of the Midterms. Many of the candidates Trump backed…
Biden vs Trump is a contest in which we all lose
Overnight President Biden announced that he intends to run again for the White House in 2024 and beat Donald Trump…
The remarkable transformation of Keir Starmer
Amid all the frenetic changes of leadership in the Conservative party, something important has been overlooked about the Labour party:…
What I learned making calls for Democrats and Republicans
I’m a registered Republican in Florida yet the only email offer I received to be a campaign volunteer this season…
Pro-lifers were the midterms’ biggest losers
When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in favor of the overturning…
At Mar-a-Lago as the red wave died out
It was a dark and stormy election night at Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump’s Florida home and private club, which…
Time to cancel Trump’s Political Apprentice
Donald Trump did not emerge from the wonkish world of conservative politics and policy. He was a product of the…
Russia will be sweating over its withdrawal from Kherson
Almost everyone has known that the city of Kherson, stranded on the right bank of the Dnipro River, was all…
Why Russia pulled out of Kherson
In one of the biggest developments of the Ukraine war, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has just announced the evacuation…
Who will be next week’s ministerial exit?
For the past fortnight, it was Suella Braverman. Now it’s Sir Gavin Williamson. The media aims to destroy two careers…
How did I get the midterms so wrong?
How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…
What the Gavin Williamson saga says about British politics
I wonder if the fall of Gavin Williamson is the latest evidence that British political parties are becoming harder to…
Why didn’t Democrats pay a price for their extremism?
The modern political pundit is a voice in the wilderness, a self-styled beacon of truth against a pampered and bought-off…
The US midterm results are a wake-up call for the Republicans
There was no ‘red wave’ in America last night. This became obvious fairly early on, when congressional seats the Republicans…
Gavin Williamson is still causing problems for Rishi Sunak
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions showed it is possible for someone who has resigned for being a distraction to continue being…
Donald Trump is an albatross around the Republican neck
Donald Trump spent the days immediately before the midterms teasing and threatening his biggest Republican rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis.…
Another blue day for red New Yorkers
Lee Zeldin’s fairytale run for governor of New York fell short on Tuesday as he lost by roughly five points…
Is Netflix’s The Crown fact or fiction?
The latest series of The Crown has arrived on Netflix. To its predictable advantage, the show has already had the…
Why the red wave never crested
The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…
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…
