Donald Trump and Theresa May desperately need each other’s help
In June, I mooted the possibility that Theresa May might consider emigrating to the United States to join the Trump…
Rex Tillerson is the captain of a ghost ship
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s press conference yesterday was moronic. Earlier this week, NBC News broke the story that…
The revolt against the Republican establishment is only just beginning
Beware the Moore. This is the doctrine that establishment Republicans such as the Senate Majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who poured in…
Bernie Sanders is back – and he wants to reshape US foreign policy
If there was any doubt that Bernie Sanders is gearing up for another run for the presidency, his speech today…
Donald Trump discovers his inner neocon
Donald Trump fully embraced his inner neocon before the United Nations today. He lashed out at North Korea, indicating that…
Working with Democrats: Donald Trump’s latest plot twist
While Donald Trump seeks to cut a deal with the Democrats on immigration, his detractors on the right are starting…
Donald Trump is a gift for the Democrats
Donald Trump has become the Conor McGregor of American politics. For weeks tensions have been mounting in the capital of…
The Trump revolution is devouring its own children
Steve Bannon is out. H.R McMaster is in. It’s now starting to dawn upon some of Donald Trump’s most ardent…
The alt-right have widened the rift between Trump and the Republican establishment
On Sunday morning the White House, in an unsigned statement, came out swinging against ‘nephew-nazi and all extremist groups.’ Leave…
Is Trump really about to rain down ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea?
Today is the 72nd anniversary of the America atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a lovely port city that also served as…
Anthony Scaramucci looked doomed from the outset
That was fast. Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director before he could even really begin communicating Donald…
Reince Priebus’s departure shows Trump is tiring of the Republican establishment
Poor Reince Priebus. Or maybe not so poor. A munificent book deal surely looms in which he can chronicle his…
Donald Trump’s position is looking shakier by the day
Here we go again. NBC News is reporting that Donald Trump Jnr. somehow forgot to mention that a former Soviet…
Trump’s son gives his father’s critics the smoking gun they were looking for
Let there be no doubt: it’s turning into the political equivalent of Defcon 1, the highest level of nuclear alert,…
Donald Trump’s troubles show no sign of ending
Donald Trump is now referring to himself in his copious Twitter messages as ‘T’. Unlike the real Mr. T, who…
Donald Trump’s White House needs Theresa May to save it
If Theresa May is ousted, or simply tires of her job as Prime Minister, might she consider emigrating to the…
It won’t be long before Republicans finally turn on Trump
Forget Russia. Georgia, as the song has it, should be on Donald Trump’s mind. A special election for the House…
Trump’s Paris deal reversal should have conservatives jumping for joy
When Donald Trump announced he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, he fulfilled what is…
Donald Trump will rejoice if Jeremy Corbyn becomes Prime Minister
If, as seems increasingly likely, Jeremy Corbyn becomes British Prime Minister in June, his victory should be greeted not simply…
Trump is winning friends abroad – while alienating them at home
In 1981, when President Reagan lifted the grain embargo on the Soviet Union, Washington Post columnist George F. Will went on…
How Donald Trump emerged as Israel’s unflinching champion
On Wednesday John Kerry managed to attract more attention with what amounted to a declaration of failure than any success…
What now for the neocons in Trumpland?
Former State Department official Eliot A. Cohen is a prominent neoconservative who has led the ‘Never Trump’ faction of the…
The simple explanation for Donald Trump’s pro-Putin twaddle
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Donald Trump has plunged the Republicans into an intellectual and moral abyss
Poor Donald Trump. Even Utah, which has voted for Republican presidential candidates with metronomic regularity since 1964 and which I’m…
The real winner at the US mid-terms? Hillary Clinton
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