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Freddy Gray

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The Trump resistance is dead

23.01.2025 8

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Trump hypes America

Trump hypes America
20.01.2025 10

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Trump’s plan for day one

Trump’s plan for day one
18.01.2025 1

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Empire of Trump: the President’s plan to make America greater

16.01.2025 10

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Does Britain want to join Trump’s new world order?

Does Britain want to join Trump’s new world order?

Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more geostrategically ambitious...

08.01.2025 3

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Labour and Reform are both using Musk

Labour and Reform are both using Musk

Another day, another UK volley from the one-man media universe that is Elon Musk. At 07.51 this morning, Musk posted a yes/no poll on his X feed:...

06.01.2025 5

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Will terrorists target Donald Trump’s inauguration day?

Donald Trump is an unconventional politician and he responds to terror attacks unconventionally. When bad things happen, he often goes on the...

02.01.2025 2

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Jimmy Carter’s mistake was telling America it was wrong

It’s hard to think of a political oration that has backfired as famously as Jimmy Carter’s ‘crisis of confidence’ speech, delivered from the...

30.12.2024 3

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Oligarchy dies in the light

Have the plutocrats of the internet age finally realised that all Donald Trump wanted was their love? This week, Jeff Bezos had dinner at...

20.12.2024 2

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The real reason people don’t like Elon Musk funding Reform

The meeting between Nigel Farage, the property developer Nick Candy and Elon Musk has triggered an all-too-predictable apoplectic fit among media...

18.12.2024 3

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Why the Royals are Trump’s ultimate MAGA inspiration

Donald Trump has yet to comment on the Prince Andrew ‘Chinese spy’ story, and online sleuths are already trying to join the vague dots between...

17.12.2024 9

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Trump’s RFK Jr appointment is going to cause trouble

Of all Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments this week, his selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services...

15.11.2024 3

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How will the ‘deep state’ swallow Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz?

Yesterday morning, I asked why President-elect Donald Trump seemed to be pausing before announcing Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. By the...

14.11.2024 2

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Why hasn’t Marco Rubio been announced as Trump’s Secretary of State yet?

Rubio, Rubio, wherefore art thou Rubio? How Little Marco, as Donald Trump dubbed him in 2016, must be squirming. It was reported on Monday, with...

13.11.2024 10

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Susie Wiles and the rise of the Floridian right

‘Susie Wiles is a great choice for President Trump’s chief of staff,’ said Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and the man Donald Trump...

08.11.2024 30

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American titan: Inside Donald Trump’s remarkable political comeback

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

07.11.2024 20

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The Trump-Harris election has broken America

‘Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all,’ said Balfour. Tell that to the American political class on the day of the 2024...

05.11.2024 1

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USA / Has the Trump campaign stalled?

The ‘Trumpmentum’ of the last few weeks couldn’t last forever. Now, with less than four days to go until election day, concern is spreading...

02.11.2024 9

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Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and the great realignment in US politics

For Donald Trump fans, one of the many creepy curiosities of this year’s presidential election is that Liz and Dick Cheney and other disgruntled...

01.11.2024 1

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When it comes to trash talk, you can’t beat the Donald

‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a computer programming principle which states that the quality of a system’s output is determined by the quality of...

31.10.2024 2

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Team Trump: who’s in – and who’s out?

If Donald Trump wins back the White House next week, adopt the brace position. His opponents will go beserk, inevitably, and try once again to put...

31.10.2024 20

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I can handle Trump, Farage tells Labour

Nigel Farage was on gregarious and ebullient form at our Americano US election event in Westminster last night.  He confidently assured the...

25.10.2024 2

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The British are coming! Labour’s comedy of errors in the US election

Our hapless Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest is...

23.10.2024 10

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Why is Trump beating Kamala to the Arab vote?

Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in 2024 than any previous Republican...

22.10.2024 5

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Golden Arches / Donald Trump is bringing the joy at just the right moment

Donald Trump is many things. Most of all, he is a quintessential American entrepreneur. He sees the upside in everything and, even at the age of...

21.10.2024 2

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Trump’s Chicago interview was magnificently weird

Kamala Harris has been criticising Donald Trump for ducking interviews. Today, however, she avoided a sit-down with the Economic Club of Chicago....

16.10.2024 30

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Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem

As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President hosted a live...

14.10.2024 3

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Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview was Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness

Somebody give Bill Whitaker a prize. In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired last night, the CBS correspondent did what no...

08.10.2024 20

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What is Melania Trump up to?

For eight years, Melania Trump has done a brilliant job of keeping us all guessing. Is she, as gossips have long suggested, secretly estranged from...

05.10.2024 10

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America / J.D. Vance dominated the VP debate

To manage expectations in the run-up to last night’s debate, Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, let it be known through...

02.10.2024 10

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No, Joe Biden is not a latter-day George Washington

George Clooney this week praised Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election as ‘the most selfless thing that anybody has done...

08.09.2024 4

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Kamala Harris and the audacity of desperation

Barack Obama wrote The Audacity of Hope. The Kamala Harris story of 2024 could be called The Audacity of Desperation. Her brief candidacy has been...

05.09.2024 4

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Has RFK just started the NeverHarris movement?

As recently as July, Robert F. Kennedy Jr was still winning up to 15 per cent support as an independent candidate in the US presidential polls....

23.08.2024 2

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Kamala Harris’s DNC speech was surprisingly good

Chicago The Democratic National Convention this week has been all razzle and dazzle. Endless platitudes about freedom, values, love, America,...

23.08.2024 8

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Can Kamala Harris bluff her way to the White House?

Chicago ‘There are no disasters,’ said Boris Johnson, who was born in America. ‘Only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh...

22.08.2024 10

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Joe Biden’s underwhelming convention farewell speech

Chicago Joe Biden has given a speech at every single Democratic convention since 1976. Tonight was his last and he didn’t start speaking until 10.28...

20.08.2024 3

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Is the Trump ‘meltdown’ a Democratic fantasy?

Talk of Donald Trump ‘meltdowns’ tends to be overblown. For eight years, we’ve been told, frequently, that he’s losing the plot, fuming at...

07.08.2024 9

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The truth about Kamalamania

In a society that worships the self, identity politics is a very powerful force. We see this now in Kamalamania – the dizzying speed with which...

30.07.2024 2

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Can anything stop Kamala Harris?

‘There are two things that are important in American politics,’ said Mark Hanna. ‘The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one...

22.07.2024 3

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Game over / Joe Biden’s legacy is one of failure

He resisted as they tried to force him away. He showed his defiance. Then, after a struggle, he gave in and was removed.  That could be a...

22.07.2024 10

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Donald Trump sounds sombre – and strange

Nobody can blame Donald Trump for a being a little reflective – given the events of the last few days. But his big speech in Milwaukee last night...

19.07.2024 10

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Joe Biden has caught covid at the worst possible time

Talk about timing. Joe Biden has caught covid, the White House has announced. The president, who was touring Las Vegas, ‘is experiencing mild...

18.07.2024 10

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Trump / American politics has a history of brutality

When there are acts of violence on a campaign trail, we often hear about how this is a commentary on our uniquely toxic, hyper-partisan times. You...

14.07.2024 3

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