Donald Trump
What Trump told me in my hour of need
‘The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom,’ espoused German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Having spent the past fortnight…
Forgetting was the best defence for the Kindertransport refugees
Alfred and Doris Moritz remained largely silent about their persecution in Nazi Germany, having tried their best to erase the memory, according to their son Michael
After Trump comes reform
America needs Donald Trump, badly. He is the bull in the china shop that every nation needs from time to…
Epstein, the Clintons and the death of trust
Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.…
Will Trump bring about World War Three?
One of the enduring myths about Donald Trump is that he is an isolationist: a president bent on dismantling alliances…
Portrait of the week: Burnham blocked, Braverman bails and Starmer clashes with Trump
Home Labour’s National Executive Committee refused permission for Andy Burnham, currently Mayor of Greater Manchester, to stand in a by-election…
Where have all the graduate jobs gone?
It’s a relief not to have been pressganged into joining the Prime Minister’s plane-load of business chiefs and reporters bound…
What to make of Kevin Warsh
The news broke this morning that Donald Trump has, after considerable deliberation, settled on Kevin Warsh as his nominee to…
Does America want to re-litigate 2020?
The collective memory of Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen has, for most Americans, been buried if…
The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob
A basic question all Americans should ask themselves before they draw any other conclusions about events in Minneapolis is this:…
Melania the movie will send Bluesky ballistic
As America stayed inside at the weekend, terrified and frozen, the White House hosted its own movie night: the first-ever…
A conservative in the chaos of Minnesota
If you live in Minnesota, as I do, don’t turn on your TV. Don’t log on to social media. Don’t…
The fight over the future of the Chagos Islands
Westminster, London Donald Trump might be determined to acquire more US land – here in Britain, however, our leaders are…
Will the FBI burn through Kash?
FBI Director Kash Patel popped up in several news stories on Friday. He does this periodically, like a skin or…
Portrait of the week: Jenrick sacked, Chinese super-embassy approved and Trump makes a grab for Greenland
Home President Donald Trump of the United States made Britain and other countries dance to his tune. Sir Keir Starmer,…
Arctic role: what does Trump really want from Greenland?
Donald Trump has probably not read Machiavelli, even the short one, The Prince. Machiavelli’s most famous advice was that it’s…
Call her Obama
Michelle Obama is the latest guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast – the raunchy girlfest “Howard Stern for women”…
Trump’s credible threat at Davos
The headline from Trump’s Davos speech is clear: I won’t use military force to take Greenland. That’s what the President…
Nicki Minaj’s ungodly clash with Don Lemon
“Independent” (fired) journalist Don Lemon is making himself the news after he did some activist reporting as part of a…
The rule of the Ayatollahs is broken. What happens now?
‘Help is on the way,’ promised Donald Trump to the people of Iran defying the Islamic Republic. In the same…
There should be no ‘sanctuary’ from ICE
After three hours of parsing American case law, for once I share Donald Trump’s exasperation. See, many a naif, including…
Trump’s attack on the Fed is a pivotal moment of hubris
The phrase ‘trumped-up charges’ dates from the 18th century, I learn, and derives from the Old French tromper, to deceive.…
Is Steve Bannon right about Jordan Bardella?
Marine Le Pen returned to a court in Paris on Tuesday as her appeal began against her five-year ban from…
Remembering the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams
Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott…
The trouble with Jerome Powell
Lost in the hysterical media bleating about a new criminal investigation into Jerome Powell is any attempt to report fairly…
