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Saturday
Friday
If Donald Trump hires only ‘the best people’ — why Paul Manafort?
Any move Trump makes to protect Manafort is likely to damage further the GOP’s electoral prospects in November.
Never mind Paul Manafort, the Mueller inquiry is the biggest scandal in US history
Mueller’s activities are meant primarily to intimidate, pressure, and co-opt associates of Donald Trump in order to convince them to bear witness against him
Thursday
When did Senate Judiciary Committee hearings become an audition process for a presidential bid?
Hearings have always been barbed partisan affairs
Is Trump underestimating the approaching disaster?
The President seems to regard hurricane cleanup efforts as being as easy as mopping up a bathroom floor after the tub has slightly overflowed
Wednesday
Andrew Cuomo’s last chance saloon in Buffalo
The New York governor makes a trip out west and tries to talk tough to Trump
The case for a conservative labour movement
A labour movement that cooperates with conservatism would broaden the benefits of a strong stock market and reduce the drive to radicalism
Will Cruz lose?
Tipping point for Ted
Tuesday
Elon Musk and the dwindling appeal of public eccentricity
The entrepreneur only seems like an oddball because culture is so homogenised
Are Trump’s tumbling poll numbers behind his latest tweet spree?
A mere 32 per cent of voters told Quinnipiac that they believe the President is honest
Selling Europe’s new Muslim vote
Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result
Monday
Julia Salazar’s identity politics
There aren’t many situations in which identifying as a Jewish Latina immigrant socialist would give you a competitive advantage
Saturday
What the Deep State Throat just swallowed
The New York Times’s op-ed confirms everything the President has said about his enemies.
Friday
For President Trump, things are going from plaid to worse
From Bob Woodward, to the New York Times, and now Plaid Shirt Guy, The Donald is getting it from all angles
Liberals blew the 2016 election when they lost their compassion
The New Class patronised the poor, whereas Trump listened
Thursday
The NeverTrump movement’s latest trick? Sabotaging the White House
In a democracy, policy is suppose to follow elections. But that isn’t how the anonymous New York Times op-ed writer sees it
Did the crash create populism? If only it were that simple
We often hear it said that the financial crash created populism. It is now a familiar story: that the Lehman Brothers collapse and the Great Recession exposed a shocking and colossal failure of economic stewardship in general. Ordinary families suffered, while bankers were bailed out. This led to people losing confidence in mainstream parties and
How Nike turned a protest about racial injustice into advertising
Every so often sport bursts its banks, spills from its usual courses and goes flooding incontinently onto the news pages. This year we’ve already had Australian cricketers doing unspeakable things with sand-paper, Gareth Southgate’s World Cup waistcoat and the return of Serena Williams to Wimbledon a few months after an emergency caesarean. And now we
Macron vs Salvini: the ideological battle for Europe’s future
The first sign that Matteo Salvini was destined to do battle with Emmanuel Macron came in June, a few days after he was named Italy’s interior minister. Salvini, whose party, the League, wants to cut immigration drastically, announced that a German-registered rescue ship carrying 629 aspiring migrants from Africa would not be allowed to dock
The neo-Marxist takeover of our universities
According to Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, America’s universities have succumbed to ‘safetyism’, whereby students are protected from anything that might cause them anxiety or discomfort. In their book The Coddling of the American Mind, published this week, they attribute the spread of ‘trigger warnings’, ‘safe spaces’ and ‘bias hotlines’ on campus to a misplaced
What has Pope Francis covered up?
The Catholic Church is confronting a series of interconnected scandals so shameful that its very survival is threatened. Pope Francis himself is accused of covering up the activities of one of the nastiest sexual predators ever to wear a cardinal’s hat: his close ally Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, DC. Popes John Paul
Ten years on: the world the crash made
With September marking a decade since the Lehman Brothers implosion, stand by for a slew of economic retrospectives. Any meaningful analysis, though, needs to get beyond historic balance sheets and plunging share price graphs — however dramatic the data. For the most significant impact of the biggest financial and economic upheaval since the Great Depression
It’s not just the moon landings. Everywhere, the PC brigade is rewriting history
I remember the moon landing very well. I was nine years old. I can remember too my sense of outrage and disillusion. ‘This is a blatant violation of the moon’s dignity and sovereignty,’ I told my parents, as the astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong attempted to secure the US flag to the lunar surface.
All things lead to 9/11
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 many writers spoke of feeling immobilised. The scale of the attacks and the world’s shared experience of the media event seemed to demand a response; but simultaneously writers such as Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Jay McInerney described a sense that the tools at their disposal were inadequate —
Wednesday
John Kerry’s plausible path to the presidency
Many are mocking the former Secretary of State’s septuagenarian ambitions. He could get the last laugh
Tuesday
Bob Woodward teases tantalising details about the mayhem of the Trump White House
Another rough day for the self-proclaimed ‘Ernest Hemingway’ of Twitter
Oh God: ‘lesbian-feminism’ is a religion now
The Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft has been given Tax Exempt Status as a ‘place of lesbian faith’
Monday
Who’s afraid of Steve Bannon?
Cancelling the former White House strategist might win back the respect of New Yorker readers — but it won’t help in their quest to explore ‘Ideas’
Trump’s bullying of Jeff Sessions is the least attractive part of his presidency
And that’s saying something
Judge Kavanaugh will be confirmed without a hitch
In years to come, no one is going to talk about ‘kavanaughing’ a candidate
Why Ted Cruz is craving a Team Trump trip to Texas
His rival Beto O’Rourke is just four points behind him in the polls
Friday
Did John McCain draw the curtain on neoconservatism?
He represented the demise of a vital link with liberals to forge interventionalist coalitions
Who has Donald Trump over a barrel?
The President reacts with neuralgic sensitivity to any imputations that he might be a Russian agent or subject to influence from Moscow
Thursday
There are two theories that explain Donald Trump’s recent behaviour
And he won’t like either
