Politics

The President has a consistent pattern of denigrating black people with special fervour.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders depicted her as the classic aggrieved employee who is thirsting for revenge against her old boss.

While his lawyers want to avoid a showdown, the inartful dodger may be eager for one.

The Manafort trial has already dented Trump’s regular contention that Special Counsel is merely conducting a witch hunt.

He is a leader utterly unlike his predecessors — and we’re all better for it.

The eldest daughter distances herself from her father’s political views, while the eldest son wallows in them.

‘It could be argued that getting out of the office to beat up some leftists is a good way to work up an appetite for lunch,’ one of France’s more cynical millionaires tells me, admiring Alexandre Benalla, 26, a recently fired security aide to President Emmanuel Macron. Benalla had rushed from his office at the Elysée Palace to brawl with members of La France Insoumise, the tattered remnants of the French left, who were demonstrating outside. Tally-ho! Right on. Except that you really are not allowed to do that, especially in the age of camera phones. And the more that comes out about this story, the weirder it becomes. What

The former campaign manager heads to trial tomorrow.

Rural areas may lean more toward Trump, but they aren’t championing the President and his policies.

Polls indicate his populist outlook is more in line with what voters want.

Surely there is a bit of humbug in this outrage about the two remaining jihadi Beatles, Kotey and Elsheikh, and Sajid Javid’s difficult but correct decision to send them for trial in America. Suppose the grisly pair had been located a couple of years ago in Raqqa. And let’s suppose there was a Reaper drone overhead, and that British intelligence could help send a missile neatly through their windscreen. Would we provide the details — knowing that they would be killed without a chance for their lawyers to offer pleas in mitigation on account of their tough childhoods in west London? Would the British state, in these circumstances, have connived