Donald Trump

What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for Trump 2.0

30 November 2024 9:00 am

How rare it is to be given a second chance. That’s what the American people have handed Donald Trump. His…

Biden’s missiles will do Ukraine no favours

23 November 2024 9:00 am

With just over 60 days left in office, Joe Biden’s White House has significantly escalated the Ukraine war it had…

Musical chairs at Mar-a-Lago

23 November 2024 9:00 am

Welcome to the United States of Disruption. From his ‘Winter White House’ in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, Donald Trump has been busy…

Get ready for Elon Musk’s sex robots

23 November 2024 9:00 am

My old mucker Donald Trump’s return to the White House has predictably sent the woke brigade into hysteria. From posting…

Welcome to life on Planet Elon

16 November 2024 9:00 am

On 13 July this year, an assassin’s bullet grazed the ear of Donald Trump as he turned his head on…

Nigel told me he’s the new Boris

16 November 2024 9:00 am

Last week I arrived in London from the Cotswolds just in time to witness the collective meltdown from everyone around…

Why Trump changed his tune on crypto

16 November 2024 9:00 am

This column comes to you from Atlanta, Georgia, where but for one giant ‘Trump Stands Up For Families’ billboard and…

How to process your Trump trauma (with orange soup)

16 November 2024 9:00 am

It’s amazing how many people have responded to what they think of as the shattering catastrophe of Donald Trump’s victory…

Letters: How to argue with Trump voters

16 November 2024 9:00 am

Unhealthy debate Sir: Matthew Parris is absolutely right to say that the time has come for facing populists with honest…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s victory, Kemi’s shadow cabinet and footballer killed by lightning

9 November 2024 9:00 am

Home Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Conservative party, appointed a shadow cabinet. She made Robert Jenrick, whom she…

Not even close: how Trump confounded the pundits

9 November 2024 9:00 am

It was supposed to be close. On the eve of election day, Donald Trump was up just 0.1 per cent…

American titan: Inside Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback

9 November 2024 9:00 am

Palm Beach, Florida Donald Trump’s bid to take back the White House has been triumphant. It is a decisive victory…

The night I was turned away from the Ivy

9 November 2024 9:00 am

How the mighty can fall. I was overwhelmed by the approbation I had received for my one-woman show, Behind the…

What Britain can learn from Donald Trump’s victory

9 November 2024 9:00 am

This has been the year of ejection elections. Across the democratic world, incumbents have been thrown out and insurgents have…

Reality check: why the Democrats lost

9 November 2024 9:00 am

For the past decade, Donald Trump has been the most famous and influential man on the planet. But he had…

In defence of the liberal elite

9 November 2024 9:00 am

You can hear it already. Rising from the tents of the dejected Democrat camp comes the whimper of self-reproach. It’s…

My friends who vote Trump

6 November 2024 9:48 pm

On 13 October 2024, I jaunted 20 minutes south down Interstate-5 to the Cosumnes Nature Preserve, whose toy swamp I…

Team Trump: who’s in – and who’s out?

2 November 2024 9:00 am

If Donald Trump wins back the White House next week, adopt the brace position. His opponents will go beserk, inevitably,…

How quickly would Trump wash his hands of Ukraine?

2 November 2024 9:00 am

For American politicians, all wars are two-front wars. There is a hot battlefield somewhere in the Middle East or the…

Who do US psychics predict will win the election?

2 November 2024 9:00 am

A week away from the American election, and the polls cannot tell us who will be president. But can they…

Still hunting for a Trump trade? Gold may have further to rise

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Anyone hunting for a ‘Trump trade’ at this late stage has probably missed the US election bus. If you bought…

America’s last undecided voter

26 October 2024 9:00 am

This is the last column I’ll file before the American presidential election, and I’ve dreaded writing it for months. (The…

Conspiracy theories are as old as witch hunts

26 October 2024 9:00 am

To millions of people across America, Hillary Clinton sits atop a global network of satanic child-traffickers and is battling an…

Confessions of a political gambler

12 October 2024 9:00 am

What could be more exquisite than the life of the professional gambler? I began my career in 2016 with a…

What do we mean when we talk about freedom?

12 October 2024 9:00 am

When the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder was 14, his parents took him to Costa Rica, a country…