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Why Harris vs Pence could be 2020’s most significant debate
‘Who am I? Why am I here?’ That was how Vice Admiral James Stockdale began the 1992 televised vice-presidential debate.…
What was missing from the vice presidential debate
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor. Vice President Mike Pence is a career politician. The debate between…
Pence takes Harris to the cleaners in VP debate
Vice President Mike Pence emerged from the 2020 vice presidential debate Wednesday night with a sound victory over challenger Sen.…
Here’s what to expect from VP Pence at tonight’s debate
Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will square off in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake…
The hostages’ president
President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…
Nicola Sturgeon’s Covid prohibition
So now we know the threshold at which Nicola Sturgeon pulls the trigger. If the number of daily hospital admissions…
Our overstimulated president
Is Donald Trump feeling overstimulated? First he scorned stimulus talks with the Democrats, tweeting on Tuesday afternoon that he was…
Macron’s fight with the far-left over extremism
Emmanuel Macron’s bold declaration last Friday that the Republic will eradicate Islamic extremism appeared to draw a swift response in…
Ministers close to closing northern pubs and restaurants
We are at a critical moment in the second surge of coronavirus. Ministers, scientists and officials are deeply concerned about…
The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose
Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…
House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are releasing their own report on Big Tech on Tuesday, countering a Democratic report…
It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump
Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…
What does Boris Johnson’s Tory party stand for?
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…
The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…
The sinister Vatican plot against Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell isn’t the sort of man to say ‘so there is a God after all!’ – but plenty…
The hypocritical oath
‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…
Sunak warns of hardship
When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…
Why won’t the UK vaccinate the whole population?
In British COVID vaccine taskforce head Kate Bingham’s interview with the Financial Times, where she says that vaccinating the whole…
Are all political parties destined to fail?
We seem to be entering another era of political party expansion. There’s Laurence Fox’s new party, not to mention the…
Biden can smell victory in his battle against Trump
‘How is the president feeling?’ shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. And yet over the last 24 hours, nobody…
Why are journalists making Trump’s illness all about themselves?
What’s the most important part of this developing Trump-has-Covid story? Is it ‘how sick is the President?’ Or is it…
Boris Johnson warns of turbulence ahead
As Conservative party conference gets underway online, Boris Johnson used an appearance on the Andrew Marr show to warn of the…
Following the evidence for hospital admissions
The recent warnings of exponential growth of Covid-19 cases, inevitably followed by a rise in hospital admissions, is one focus…
