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Liz Cheney rehabilitates the family name
There have been darker days for the House of Cheney. In 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney left office amidst two…
Brexit means Boris
A few months before he died in 2007, the famous journalist Bill Deedes asked if I would come to see…
Brexit and the great liberal crack-up
Brexit may yet kill the Conservative party but it is exacting a cruel psychological torture on liberalism. Liberals are supposed…
The hounding of Hope Hicks and the desperation of the Democrats
Oscar Wilde once observed that only very superficial people don’t judge things by their appearances. Like many of Wilde’s quips,…
Trump told me I got a ‘bad rap’
I owe my return to these pages to the pardon I have received from the President of the United States.…
What will happen if Theresa May tries to cling on?
On Friday, Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee, will go and see Theresa May. It is expected that…
Nigel Farage is not ‘far right’
It is now fashionable to describe Nigel Farage as an ‘extremist’, ‘far right’ or ‘fascist’ politician. Last month, Dame Margaret…
Donald Trump’s one-front trade war
At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, President Donald Trump went a long way toward defusing a potential war – not with…
Can Brexiteers trust Boris Johnson to deliver a ‘real’ Brexit?
The current Westminster consensus that Boris Johnson is the next Tory leader and prime minister raises all sorts of thoughts.…
The case against Boris Johnson
In the old days, if the Tory party was in trouble, old hands who had seen it all before would…
The inevitability of Joe Biden
‘Biden is their nominee until further notice,’ a source close to the White House told me recently. The candidacy of…
The whataboutery of the Alabama abortion ban
Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, signed into law on Wednesday by governor Kay Ivey, is a real moment of hope. The principle on…
Behind the scenes at a Brexit Party rally: why Labour and the Tories should be terrified
In a small town in the Black Country last night, a political rally took place which should have the two main…
Theresa May’s successor should be careful what they wish for
Let’s assume this really is the start of the last act of Theresa May’s premiership. Let’s assume too that her…
Racist incidents are down since Trump’s election. Yes, really
The election of Donald Trump has, of course, unleashed the latent racist which lurks within millions of Americans. We know…
What’s the truth about Cambridge Analytica?
If you have heard of Alexander Nix, you probably think he’s a villain. He is the former head of Cambridge…
The twisted truth about Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party pretends to stand for the traditional values of old England: Parliamentary sovereignty, patriotism and decency. However little…
Brexit is a symptom of Europe’s problems
Three decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, Europe is once again at a crossroads. In 1989 and the years…
Why did Democrats invite a hate preacher into Congress?
The Republicans are the party of racists and religious bigots, and the Democrats are the party of anti-racists and religious…
Why Joe won’t blow it
A common fallacy circulating among the pundit class is that every presidential election cycle will be as ‘disruptive’ as 2016…
How do the Project Fear prophets explain the good news about Britain’s economy?
Of course, we shouldn’t read too much into a set of good economic figures when they are so obviously down…
Theresa May could be gone by the first week of June
The 1922 executive committee thinks it has finally laid a surefire trap for Theresa May – by securing a promise from…
What’s the matter with Bernie?
Who’s the biggest loser? Joe Biden’s third try for the White House might look as doomed as Hillary Clinton’s run…
When populism fails
It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that Donald J. Trump ran his insurgency presidential campaign against the coordinated opposition…
A crowdfunded prosecution of Boris Johnson is nothing to celebrate
I have often wondered what would happen if politicians were bound by the same rules as advertisers, or if manifestos…
