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It is a pity both Trump and Twitter can’t lose
It may be the ultimate Kissinger Dilemma: Donald Trump versus the platform that helped make Donald Trump president. Contemplating war…
Here comes Ukraine again
The news about Joe Biden from Ukraine has gone strangely unnoticed in most American media. Cockburn imagines that’s because everyone…
It isn’t necessarily the economy, stupid!
‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ With those now famous words, the Democratic strategist James Carville summarized the 1992 election between President…
Kayleigh McEnany is winning the 2020 election
Well, isn’t she lovely? Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s new press secretary, is already winning the hearts and minds of locked-down males…
Covid statistics are just politics by other means
Statistics is the continuation of politics by other means, to misquote Clausewitz. One hundred and fifty years after the crushing…
Trump should shutdown his press conferences, now
What do you do when you are in an argument with an impossible child who sees you as the enemy?…
The problem is a lot bigger than Trump
It’s incredibly easy to blame President Trump for the coronavirus hell we’re all living in. The president doesn’t help himself…
The West is failing to rise to the challenge of coronavirus
Having apparently shaken off the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda machine is now in…
The death of populism has been greatly exaggerated
Have we reached peak populism? This is the question being asked after a recent regional election in Italy delivered a…
Of course president Trump was acquitted
The impeachment of President Trump was unfounded in law and in fact and was never anything but a smear-job organised…
Trump’s Iran strategy has finally won over the ‘Never Trumpers’
As a general rule, neoconservatives and hawkish Republican foreign policy officials don’t respect President Donald Trump’s capacities as commander-in-chief. They…
Iran’s generals are weeping for Qasem Soleimani. But soon they will prepare to fight
It has been 24 hours since America droned Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad airport. Now both Iran and the United States…
The Soleimani assassination is Donald Trump’s biggest gamble yet
Ever since Donald Trump was elected president on a non-military interventionist platform, sceptics have questioned his commitment to withdrawing troops…
Where did the money come from for Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine operations?
Donald Trump is about to become only the third US president to be impeached —or charged with a crime —…
Republicans can’t make up their minds on how to save Trump from impeachment
It didn’t take long after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump for the…
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If we do get a good Anglo-American trade deal, we should thank Trump’s mother
In an uncharacteristic fit of almost-robustness, Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan has said she is ‘open-minded’ about scrapping the BBC licence…
Brace yourselves for the impeachment frenzy
We’re told over and over by fairweather Constitutional scholars that impeachment is a ‘political process.’ Which is to say: it’s not…
Why 80 per cent of young people in this Macedonian town have turned to posting ‘fake news’
It’s such a relief to turn on the radio and hear the voice of Neil MacGregor. That reasoned authority, his…
Tony Slattery is still a miraculously gifted comedian
Some of the marketing efforts by amateur impresarios up in Edinburgh are extraordinary. I was handed a leaflet for a…
‘Doubling down’ is Donald Trump’s greatest triumph
For three years, we have been told what Donald Trump is. We have been told that he is a racist,…
Kanye wipes the floor with David Letterman
My plan to cut the BBC out of my life entirely is working well. Apart from the occasional forgivable lapse…
A torpid seminar on why Trump is the Antichrist: Shipwreck reviewed
When reviewers call a work ‘important’ they mean ‘boring’ and ‘earnest’. And in those terms Shipwreck is one of the…
A masterpiece of pro-Trump propaganda: Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse reviewed
Sweat, set in the Pennsylvanian rust belt, looks at a blue-collar community threatened by a factory closure. The script uses…
Radio 3 had the most simple yet effective way of reflecting on war’s impact
Amid all the remembrance, Radio 3 came up with a simple yet effective way of reflecting on war’s impact. Threaded…
A hedge-fund protagonist – Gary Shteyngart takes aim in Lake Success
‘We lived in a country that rewarded its worst people. We lived in a society where the villains were favoured…
