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Dying on the vine / The death penalty is still in decline – despite Trump’s best efforts

Donna Major was shot dead in 2017 by bank robber Brandon Council, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Joe Biden – “guided,” as he said...

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Ben Clerkin

The death penalty is still in decline – despite Trump’s best efforts

The death penalty is still in decline – despite Trump’s best efforts

Donna Major was shot dead in 2017 by bank robber Brandon Council, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Joe Biden – “guided,” as he said...

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Ben Clerkin

The death penalty is still in decline – despite Trump’s best efforts

The death penalty is still in decline – despite Trump’s best efforts

Donna Major was shot dead in 2017 by bank robber Brandon Council, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Joe Biden – “guided,” as he said...

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Ben Clerkin

Why drones will carry out the next 9/11

Few know more about drone warfare than Brett Velicovich. During the Iraq war, the former Delta Force intelligence analyst lived in a “black box”...

21.05.2026 8

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WATCH: the world’s first robotic assault on an enemy position

The world’s first fully robotic assault on an enemy position was, of course, captured on video by a drone hovering above.President Volodymyr...

04.05.2026 10

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Inside the Killhouse: where Ukraine’s revolutionary military robots are developed

The Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle rolled up to a small bunker hidden in a thicket in Kharkiv oblast then stopped. Another remote-controlled...

03.05.2026 20

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Zohran Mamdani’s toxic social media socialism

Zohran Mamdani is discovering how much more difficult seizing the means of production is than posting about seizing it on social media. To date he has...

02.05.2026 20

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‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’: Steve Hilton on why he’s running to be California governor

Ben Clerkin has narrated this article for you to listen to. ‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,’ Steve Hilton...

29.03.2026 30

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Interview / Steve Hilton on running to be California governor: ‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’

“I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,” Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting of South­ern California Republican...

28.03.2026 30

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Ben Clerkin

Steve Hilton on running to be California governor: ‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’

“I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,” Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting of South­ern California Republican...

26.03.2026 30

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Steve Hilton on running to be California governor: ‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’

“I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,” Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting of South­ern California Republican...

26.03.2026 30

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Muzzleloader season

Climbing into the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia with a muzzleloader slung over my shoulder was a journey back in time. This was the gun that the...

15.03.2026 20

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Can the US Navy really defend the Strait of Hormuz?

George W. Bush’s war haunts Donald Trump, who is now calling the Iranian operation a “little excursion”. But Iran differs from Iraq in one...

11.03.2026 20

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Like that poor dog, Kristi Noem turned out to be untrainable

When Kristi Noem disclosed she once shot the family dog, Cricket, because Cricket was “untrainable”, the world wrote her off as unfit to be Donald...

06.03.2026 20

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Did Israel bounce the US into war?

Operation Epic Fury has developed from a war to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons into a political war of blame. “We knew that there was going to be...

03.03.2026 10

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Ben Clerkin

Release the Gonzales files

We know the terrible details of how congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, 35, died. She poured gasoline on herself and then flicked the flame on...

25.02.2026 30

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Ben Clerkin

Family man / Is James Fishback the right’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?

“First and foremost, I think Zohran and I are two good-looking guys in our thirties.” James Fishback, the controversial Republican running for...

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Is James Fishback the right’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?

“First and foremost, I think Zohran and I are two good-looking guys in our thirties.” James Fishback, the controversial Republican running for...

21.02.2026 30

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Ben Clerkin

Is James Fishback the right’s answer to Zohran Mamdani?

“First and foremost, I think Zohran and I are two good-looking guys in our thirties.” James Fishback, the controversial Republican running for...

21.02.2026 30

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Ben Clerkin

Mamdani’s People’s Republic of New York

Proudly displayed in the window of my local Barnes and Noble are copies of a children’s book called Zohran Walks New York. It’s a graphic novel...

19.02.2026 20

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Ben Clerkin

Tom Homan is Minnesota’s good cop

In announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota, Tom Homan has become for Democrats an unlikely good cop to Kristi Noem’s bad. But the double-act...

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Facts, unlike opinions, are hard to come by in Minneapolis

26.01.2026 20

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Ben Clerkin

Ukrainians think Trump is putting the screws on Zelensky

21.11.2025 20

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Ben Clerkin