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Trump vs Biden could be the worst presidential debate in history

Ding ding ding! Trump vs Biden, the debate rematch, is on – so brace yourselves for the worst presidential tussle in history! This time, ladies...

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Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate?

We are in the fifth week of Donald Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial and the real scandal is that it’s all so intensely boring. Sex, porn-star...

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Interview / Sex and the shires: Plum Sykes reveals all

‘I looked at a picture of him today and thought: “Why are you wearing those expensive clothes, you twit?”’ Plum Sykes is in the Claridge’s...

09.05.2024 20

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Trump’s trial has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels

Why did Stormy Daniels testify in court yesterday about her allegedly sexual encounter with Donald Trump? Anybody who has followed the Donald Trump...

08.05.2024 30

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US politics / Why Trumpists think the real conspiracy is RFK Jr

A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill’s description of Soviet Russia in 1939 could also apply to the independent...

02.05.2024 30

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US Politics / The Democrats have a Joe Biden problem

The Democrats dare to hope that this week will be a study in contrasts. On their side stands President Joe Biden, the veteran statesman, using all his...

18.04.2024 10

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You can’t blame Trump for dozing off

Is it Dozy Don now? Social media is already pulsating over reports that Donald Trump appears to have fallen asleep on the first day of his criminal...

15.04.2024 8

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Trump’s legal troubles are paving his way to the White House

The Trump 2024 campaign’s fundraising email operations went into overdrive last weekend. ‘Dems threaten to seize Trump Tower,’ screamed one...

26.03.2024 7

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Trump II: Back with a Vengeance

In his under-recognised 2007 book Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business and Life, Donald Trump dedicated a chapter to ‘Revenge’. He wrote: ‘My...

07.03.2024 10

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Nikki Haley is doomed

Commentators find it tedious to keep pointing out that Donald Trump has won yet another primary by yet another huge margin. He just defeated Nikki...

28.02.2024 3

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Nikki Haley’s candidacy is Never Trumpism’s last stand

‘I’m a woman of my word,’ said Nikki Haley after another humiliating defeat last night. ‘I’m not giving up this fight when a majority of...

25.02.2024 6

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What are Nikki Haley’s chances in South Carolina?

Will Nikki Haley defy expectations and only lose by 20 points today? That seems to be closest thing to a point of contention as South Carolina heads...

24.02.2024 8

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If Donald Trump is re-elected, thank Letitia James

‘Donald Trump may have authored the Art of the Deal,’ said the New York Attorney General Letitia James, doing her best resolute voice. ‘But he...

17.02.2024 20

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Joe Biden’s week of forget to forget

Joe Biden isn’t working. That much has been clear to anyone who has followed American politics for the past four years. The 81-year-old often has no...

09.02.2024 10

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Nobody can stop Vladimir Putin… from talking

The trouble with ageing authoritarians is not that nobody dares tell them they are wrong. It’s that nobody ever tells them they are tiresome. Yes,...

09.02.2024 20

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Interview / Éric Zemmour: ‘I am not intending to conquer Europe’

Two years ago, Éric Zemmour was the most talked-about man in France and a serious contender to be the ninth president of the Fifth Republic. A...

08.02.2024 20

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Why shouldn’t Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin?

Unlike Hearst, Carlson does not think that his job is to talk to world leaders away from the cameras in order to decide what’s best for democracy In...

05.02.2024 10

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Air strikes / America is getting closer to open conflict with Iran

‘Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy,’ said Sun Tzu. President Joe Biden’s administration prefers the opposite...

03.02.2024 10

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Can Taylor Swift help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump?

It’s not yet February, and already we have a clear idea of what Joe Biden’s re-election will be all about: Donald Trump, abortion and, er, Taylor...

30.01.2024 30

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Trump is right – the world is less stable under Biden

Donald Trump said yesterday that we’re ‘on the brink of World War III’ after a suicide drone killed three US soldiers and injured a further 34...

29.01.2024 30

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Could Dean Phillips be President?

New Hampshire Joe Biden likes to say that ‘democracy is on the ballot’ in 2024. Yet Joe Biden was not on the ballot on Tuesday in New Hampshire....

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Trump has sucked the energy out of the Republican primaries

Donald Trump has, like a boa constrictor, squeezed the life out of the Republican primary cycle. Last night, he swallowed New Hampshire and possibly...

24.01.2024 8

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Will Nikki Haley pull out on Wednesday? 

New Hampshire votes tomorrow and today Nikki Haley has just two planned events in New Hampshire. She has a morning meet-and-great in the city of...

22.01.2024 30

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DeSantis backs down

Ron DeSantis’s political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of Trump: ‘You can be the most...

22.01.2024 3

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Primary woes / Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign

In his initial pitch for the presidency, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presented himself as Donald Trump with brains; Trump but you get two terms;...

21.01.2024 30

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Nikki Haley is too bland for Trumpworld

19.01.2024 4

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How the Democrats went from hope to fear

‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself,’ said Franklin D. Roosevelt, famously. The Democrats of 2024 have a rather different message for the...

18.01.2024 10

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Everything is falling into place for Donald Trump

Vivek Ramaswamy, the impressive podcast guest who has spent the last few months pretending to be a serious Republican presidential candidate, has just...

16.01.2024 20

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Trump is looking unstoppable in Iowa

The bitterly cold conditions in Iowa today have at least given journalists something to talk about. There’s a distinct lack of political drama,...

15.01.2024 20

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Why Trump can’t be stopped

Donald Trump has dominated Republican politics for so long that it can be hard to remember the time when he did not. It’s easy to forget that at the...

11.01.2024 10

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Biden’s cynical attempt to memorialise 6 January

It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, 5 January, the US President will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to mark the third...

05.01.2024 10

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The lawfare against Donald Trump is increasingly farcical

Does kicking a popular candidate off the electoral ballot protect democracy? Or is that in fact deeply anti-democratic?  These are the questions that...

20.12.2023 5

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Nikki Haley’s popularity is probably because of media desperation

Nikki Haley is now the favourite ‘not Donald Trump’ candidate in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. The former...

18.12.2023 20

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US politics / Brace yourselves for the Great American Election Freak-Out of 2024

‘If Trump wasn’t running,’ said Joe Biden last week, ‘I’m not sure I’d be running.’ That’s a curiously uninspiring remark for an...

14.12.2023 30

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Hunter Biden’s MAGA attack won’t throw Republicans off the scent

Hunter Biden was lost and now he’s found. That was the quasi-Biblical subtext of the president’s prodigal son’s speech outside Congress...

14.12.2023 20

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Ron DeSantis just isn’t presidential material

Sans Trump, the Republican presidential debates of 2023 have mostly been piddling contests in a shallow pool. We’ve seen nasty insults — most...

01.12.2023 40

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Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?

Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he struggles to...

23.11.2023 6

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The 2024 veep show has already started

Vice presidents are meant to be dependable – and in a funny way Kamala Harris is exactly that. Joe Biden knows that, no matter how bad his poll...

16.11.2023 40

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‘The party of abortion’ is winning

Not so long ago, Republicans called Democrats the ‘party of abortion’ as an insult, or a pre-election attack line. Now, it is the Republicans, as...

08.11.2023 10

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Not even America’s legal system can stop Trump

‘I beseech you to control him if you can,’ Justice Arthur Engoron. told Donald Trump’s lawyer in court yesterday. To which the only sensible...

07.11.2023 8

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AI / The banality of Elon’s chat with Rishi

It was hard to enjoy Rishi Sunak’s ‘Business Connect’ sit down with Elon Musk on stage at Lancaster House last night. It was hard to hate it,...

03.11.2023 4

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Kamala Harris’s brain-dead AI plan

Try to think of some leading names in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kamala Harris is probably not the first that springs to mind. The woman...

01.11.2023 10

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Joe Biden’s Middle East diplomacy is a wreck

Joe Biden prides himself on his decades of foreign-policy experience, his ability to talk tough yet be kind, and his talent for bringing opposing...

18.10.2023 30

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The Republican party is a mess

In comparison to the Republicans in the United States, the British Conservative party is a model of unity and discipline. In Manchester this week, for...

04.10.2023 2

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Politics / Emergency on Planet Biden

Freddy Gray has narrated this article for you to listen to. ‘If aliens attacked Earth, do you think we would be safer under Joe Biden or Donald...

28.09.2023 3

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Modern lawfare / Americans care less and less about Trump’s legal troubles

Another day in America, another judgment against the Trump family. In the latest, New York state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron has ruled that...

27.09.2023 3

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It won’t be long before Russell Brand releases his first show on X

It’s only a matter of time before Russell Brand, backed as he is by Elon Musk, releases his first show on X, the platform formerly known as...

19.09.2023 5

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Does Joe Biden need a conservatorship?

America’s wacky Libertarian party, which sadly never gets anywhere in presidential elections, has just filed a petition to put Democratic President...

13.09.2023 20

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Is Joe Biden really running again? 

Will President Joe Biden be on the ballot in the presidential election of 2024? It’s a question that Biden seemed to answer four months ago when he...

07.09.2023 2

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