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Four moments from the cutting room floor of Monday’s DNC coverage
Rather than the initially planned four-day knees-up in Wisconsin, the 2020 Democratic National Convention began with a two-hour virtual broadcast…
The rise of Scotland’s Covid nationalism
Whenever some London celebrity with a hamster’s grasp of Scottish politics simpers about moving north to escape the flaxen-fringed Franco…
In many ways, Andrew Cuomo is just a metaphor
With the United States lurching from crisis to crisis, the Democrats want their convention to present them as the tough,…
Michelle Obama goes low on the first night of the virtual DNC
What was that? That was the question the internet was asking as the disjointed first night of the Democratic National…
Going postal: the USPS conspiracy theory is the new Russiagate
For the past three years, our national media has been fired up by the urge to fact-check. They fact-checked Donald…
Joe Biden’s Weak Ass Policies
Finally, Joe Biden has submitted himself to the test of a rigorous interview. Unfortunately it wasn’t conducted by Axios’s boomerang-slinger…
Will Biden get away with his bad record on race?
If there’s been one hallmark of the Trump campaign’s messaging against Joe Biden, it’s that the former VP is the…
James Carville’s advice to Joe Biden
On Monday night, the Democratic party kicks off the first-of-its-kind, never-seen-before, virtual presidential nominating convention. In anticipation of the big online…
After the exams U-turn, will unis have enough places?
So now that A-Levels will be judged on teacher-assessed grades (or centre assessed grades) where does that leave us? At…
Steve Bannon’s army of lookalikes
Stephen K. Bannon positioned himself as the godfather of a new American political movement. Now he’s cultivated the aesthetic of…
Milwaukee is a victory for Silicon Valley’s shadow state
The real venue for the Democratic National Convention will not be Milwaukee, but the online platforms that will facilitate and…
The exams U-turn is an act of damage limitation
After a bruising few days for Boris Johnson and his ministers over the grading system for A-levels and GCSEs, the…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
Get ready for the return of the Iran Deal
The Trump administration has the first successful foreign policy of any administration since that of George H.W. Bush. It must…
The government should have trusted schools on A-levels
On Friday 20 March, I had an email exchange with a friendly professor at a top university. He confirmed that his…
Why Keir Starmer is failing against Boris Johnson
The way to beat Boris Johnson is to offer a stark contrast to his political persona. At all points radiate…
Coronavirus and the BBC’s anti-American bias
One keeps hearing, particularly on the BBC, that the United States is ‘the worst in the world’ for coronavirus, stated…
Public Health England scrapped over handling of Covid crisis
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to scrap Public Health England (PHE), according to the Sunday Telegraph – the body that was…
Kamala Obama?
Kamala Harris is no radical. Indeed, no matter how vaguely inclusive the label ‘progressive’ may be, Harris’s long record as…
Will health trump freedom in our post-coronavirus world?
Bernard Henri Levy’s latest book, The Virus in the Age of Madness, contains a striking quote from Rudolf Virchow, the 19thcentury…
What lies behind the Japanese obsession with face masks?
If there is one country where the wearing of face masks in response to the coronavirus outbreak has caused no…
What price is too high in the war against Covid?
Wars reshape states. The powers and size of governments grow. Economic activity is controlled or subsidised. Liberties are curtailed. Identity…
Tom Wolf, king of distraction
Cockburn’s old compadre, Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis, stirred up the internet mob again this week when she dared…
India-Pakistan relations have reached rock bottom
Seventy-three years ago on 15 August, the nation of India awoke, in the immortal words of its first prime minister…
