2020 US election
Diary
The thing we most need to understand right now is how you deprogram people who have been in a cult.…
Portrait of the Week
Home The Commons voted by 291 votes to 78 for new coronavirus regulations putting 55 million people in England into…
Here comes President Joebama
‘So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when…
Truth is in the eye of the beholder
Ever since I saw him in Pensacola, Florida the other week, Donald J. Trump will not leave me alone. Each…
Trump’s revenge
Donald Trump may be a narcissist, but since he is not mentally ill in the technical sense, he is not…
In it to win it
So Humpty Trumpty has had his great fall. But how democratic or logical was his election in the first place…
What Trump supporters really want
As Democrats’ colossal collective sigh of relief drives wind turbines even over in Britain, let’s not lose sight of the…
The Trump kickback
He may have lost – but his agenda is here to stay
Voters have lost their nerve
Elections teach us nothing. Instead, each tribe dredges succour from the minutiae, proving that they had been right all along.…
Diary
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a useful stop for journalists looking for some rust-belt Americana not too far from New York. The…
Portrait of the week
Home Pfizer and BioNTech announced a vaccine against Covid-19 of 90 per cent efficacy from two injections three weeks apart.…
Divided states
Once again, Trump has shown how well he understands America
Diary
American expats have a conundrum on election night: do you stay up to watch the results come in or do…
Portrait of the Week
Home The government imposed a lockdown on England to last until 2 December. On television, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister,…
America sails into the unknown
Washington, DC On election day in the capital there is no thrill in the air, but there is a sound:…
Make America boring again
I just spent £2.50 in postage to bring about one of the last things I want. Specifically, the next-to-last thing…
What America needs
It is remarkably uncommon for a US president to fail to be re-elected. It has happened just twice in the…
Election notebook
Earlier this summer left-wing activists announced a ‘semi-autonomous zone’ in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. Denuded of law enforcement…
‘I lied for Trump, but that doesn’t make me a liar’
Michael Cohen on the cult of The Donald
Veeps shall inherit the earth
In Pence and Harris, we are looking at the future of the Republican Party
America in meltdown
What if no one accepts the election result?
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
A diplomatic silence
How Boris should handle the US election
Shades of Joe
What should the world expect from a President Biden?
Could Joe Biden be the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
The 2020 struggle for the White House is shaping up to look a lot like the 2016 contest. Once more…
