Does Donald Trump wish he owned a newspaper?
Edward Luce warns today in the Financial Times that Donald Trump’s fusillades at Amazon and its proprietor Jeff Bezos are…
The perfect recipe for a Trump meltdown
President Trump has invited Russian president Vladimir Putin to the White House. This news is rocking Washington, but it shouldn’t…
If Trump is Bertie Wooster, who is Jeeves?
California, once a citadel of conservatism, now a bastion of liberal progressivism, continues to harbour a few intellectual redoubts on…
Donald Trump turns on Putin
It seems like only yesterday Donald Trump was buttering up Vladimir Putin. His congratulations on Putin’s victory and failure to…
Donald Trump’s ‘bimbo eruptions’ are mounting
Bimbo eruptions is the term that Betsey Wright, Bill Clinton’s longtime gubernatorial aide, coined to describe the multifarious women who…
Isolationist? Donald Trump appears to be assembling a war cabinet
Is the third time the charm? President Trump has already run through Mike Flynn, who enjoyed the shortest tenure in…
Trump vs Biden could be the Donald’s biggest ratings winner yet
Old men, Shakespeare said in Henry V, forget. Not in America, they don’t. Instead, they try to get even. “I…
Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to his enemies
Let’s face it: Donald Trump remains the best thing to happen to his enemies. Former FBI director James Comey’s forthcoming…
Donald Trump finally announces sanctions against Russia
Donald Trump today called it a ‘very sad situation.’ The ‘it’ in question is of course the chemical weapons attack…
Rand Paul denounces Trump’s ‘crazy neocons’
President Trump continues to shake up his White House team. As early as tomorrow he plans to name Larry Kudlow,…
With Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, Trump will be more hawkish
The surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. It is that it took this long.…
At last, an American president grasps the North Korean nettle
Does Donald Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
Sarah Sanders’ loose lips could capsize the White House
There’s a veritable orgy of news coming out of the White House about former porn star Stormy Daniels. The latest…
Red alert: Texas turns blue!
Is Texas, the Lone Star State, about to get a little lonesome for the GOP? There’s been lots of talk…
Christopher Steele comes up Trumps
Crikey! Did the Kremlin put the kibosh on Mitt Romney’s hopes to become Secretary of State in the Trump administration?…
Trump’s polls slump is yuge
With the drop in his poll ratings to around 35 percent, Donald Trump faces a fresh peril. A further erosion…
Is Donald Trump heading for his Monica Lewinsky moment?
The stories about Donald Trump’s sex life keep coming. First, it was Stormy Daniels who stated that she had an…
Will Donald Trump’s dangerous war of words with Pyongyang go nuclear?
Wednesday marked the 72nd anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki prompted…
The much-hyped Trump memo is a dreary defence of a nutjob
What was the fuss all about? The capital of the free world has been consumed with frenzied speculation about a…
Obama’s drab portrait is a fitting metaphor for his presidency
Has Barack Obama become a flower child? His new presidential portrait, which is over seven feet high, depicts him on…
Republicans would be wise to listen to Rand Paul before it’s too late
‘I can’t in all good honesty, in all good faith, just look the other way because my party is now…
Trump’s State of the Union address shows he is ready for war. But who with?
It was a sound move by Donald Trump to single out the North Korean defector Ji Seong-ho in his first…
Trump’s State of the Union goodwill won’t last long
The real story about Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech today may not be what he says, but that…
Theresa May is back in the President’s Club
Donald Trump is in love again. Theresa May can’t guarantee Trump an effusive welcome if he visits Great Britain and…
Donald Trump will feel right at home in Davos
After a prolonged dry spell, the Donald, to borrow from Billy Bush’s memorable taped remark, has finally scored again. For…
