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Will Michelle Obama run? The runners and riders to replace Joe Biden

29 June 2024 3:31 am

After a lamentable performance in Thursday’s debate, much of the Democrat press corps is demanding that Joe Biden step aside.…

America is in trouble if Gavin Newsom succeeds Biden

29 June 2024 3:12 am

Gavin Newsom, the governor of California is everywhere at the moment, earnestly assuring Americans of his unwavering loyalty to poor,…

Meloni is furious at the EU’s centrist stitch-up

29 June 2024 1:58 am

The European Union has reached an agreement on the bloc’s political leadership for the next five years – and in the…

Democrats can’t pretend to be shocked by Joe Biden’s decline

29 June 2024 12:00 am

What a difference a week makes. Last week, White House spinners and Democratic pundits were insisting that clips of US president Joe Biden appearing…

Biden’s legacy has been left in tatters

28 June 2024 11:13 pm

Joe Biden did not simply alter his chances at winning a second term last night. He altered his legacy. It…

Democrats have led America to the brink of the abyss

28 June 2024 10:37 pm

Before Thursday’s debate, the leading contender to win the upcoming presidential election was already Donald Trump, a man whose first…

Biden and Harris must go

28 June 2024 10:23 pm

For months US Democrats have been wondering why voters were not supporting Joe Biden. He has been a good president, and…

The five worst moments from the Trump-Biden debate

28 June 2024 8:46 pm

Can Joe Biden cling on? That’s the question being asked in Washington, DC after a painful performance from the president…

After last night, nobody believes in Joe Biden

28 June 2024 7:07 pm

‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he…

‘That was painful’: CNN mourns Biden implosion

28 June 2024 6:33 pm

Oh dear. The Democrats are reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of the election (the…

Joe Biden’s debate disaster

28 June 2024 5:25 pm

The Democrats wanted and needed a compelling performance from Joe Biden last night: a rebuttal to the concerns about his…

Presidential debate: Joe Biden was painful to watch

28 June 2024 4:42 pm

These weren’t the Lincoln-Douglas debates. They weren’t Kennedy-Nixon. If those were graded ‘A’, then this was ‘C-minus’, at best. Both…

Iran’s sham election will change nothing

28 June 2024 4:00 pm

Voting takes place in Iran’s snap presidential election today – a contest brought forward by the death last month in…

There’s one place in Spain that hasn’t turned against tourists

28 June 2024 4:00 pm

Would you like to spend the winter in Benidorm? I guess it depends on the alternatives, but I wasn’t surprised…

Biden had an awful debate. Is the media’s reaction an intervention?

28 June 2024 1:17 pm

The fix is in. The liberal media and Democratic donor class turned on President Joe Biden in droves on Thursday…

Sending US contractors to Ukraine could provoke Moscow

28 June 2024 2:03 am

Call it ‘slippery slope’ or ‘mission creep’, America’s strategy for helping Ukraine defend itself against the Russian invasion has adapted…

Unesco’s Stonehenge threat isn’t worth taking seriously

27 June 2024 11:33 pm

If you gaze south from the sarsens of Stonehenge, your view at present is of a constant crocodile of cars…

Politicians aren’t discussing Britain’s woeful cancer survival rates

27 June 2024 11:13 pm

Last week, amid a flurry of election policies and debates, a striking report found that cancer survival in England currently…

Why the Bolivia coup failed

27 June 2024 10:27 pm

Latin America has long been the traditional home of the military coup – or ‘golpe’ in Spanish – so the…

Why the plot to kill Putin would be a mistake

27 June 2024 10:16 pm

Is the assassination of Vladimir Putin the answer to ending the war in Ukraine? A collection of émigré Russians who…

The pointlessness of the junior doctors’ strike

27 June 2024 8:47 pm

Junior doctors are back out on strike in England today, walking out this morning for five days. The timing of…

The shooting of Nahel Merzouk still haunts France

27 June 2024 8:07 pm

One year ago today, a 17-year-old called Nahel Merzouk was fatally shot by a policeman as he sped away from…

Why Israel’s ultra-Orthodox don’t want to serve

27 June 2024 7:03 pm

In the middle of a war, Israel’s government is wobbling. Not because of the policy failures that led to the…

What drugs could help you debate better? Doctors weigh in

27 June 2024 6:46 pm

Tonight America’s oldest president takes on his loose cannon predecessor in the first presidential debate in Atlanta. Presidents Biden and…

The trouble with David Tennant

27 June 2024 4:15 pm

Most people have a soft spot for the first ‘X’ film they legitimately saw as an alleged ‘adult’; mine was Magic,…