The liberal mob has been trying to gaslight us for two years — and now the jig is up
They have now gone further than many of its members ever intended. And it’s fascinating to behold.
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Tuesday
Poor Theresa May. In Trump-speak, ‘very good relationship’ means he can’t stand you
Uh oh – poor Theresa. You know that when Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world, tells the media that you and he have a ‘very good relationship’, it means he doesn’t like you at all. It’s what he said about Theresa May this morning, just before he left for Europe. It’s also
Monday
The Beeb vs The Donald
The BBC brings up President Trump’s women problems.
Do svidánija, NATO
Until now, not one of our NATO allies believed the American President actively sought favour and approval from the leader of totalitarian Russia.
Donald Trump can teach Theresa May how to listen
The British Prime Minister could use a lesson in reconnecting with her base.
If Trump picks Amy Coney Barrett tonight, prepare for all hell to break loose
Feminists will be lining up to prevent the appointment of the Catholic mother of seven.
The British government is in crisis, again. Enter Trump, stage right, again
Trump says he likes things ‘nice and complicated’ – well, in that case, he couldn’t be coming to Britain at a better time. Theresa May’s newly hatched soft Brexit plan, announced on Friday, has triggered two major resignations from her cabinet and another political crisis in Britain. David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, went late last
Sunday
The Western alliance is dead
The Trump era will mark the demise of NATO, but the cause of the collapse of the political West goes beyond The Donald.
Thursday
Conservatives are wrong about free speech
‘There. I said it.’ That phrase, and the attitude it strikes, says something pretty specific. It doesn’t just say: here’s what I think. It says: ‘Here’s what I think, and, you know what? It’s what nobody except me dares to say in public.’ It says: I’m brave. It says: I speak truth to power. It
Up close with the Rolling Stones
At 7 p.m., panting, I knocked on the door of room 201 of the Hotel InterContinental, Marseille, expecting it to be opened by Patrick Woodroffe, the man who has splendidly lit Rolling Stones gigs for the past 33 years, who would, I believed, hand over two tickets. With any luck, and on the strength of
Technology has invaded our once peaceful homes
How we love our homes: we make them cosy and secure, protected from the outside world, defended by locks, bolts and burglar alarms. But we haven’t always had our own private dwellings, and under the invasive influence of the internet, home, as we’ve come to understand it, may well soon be a thing of the
The dream of driverless cars is dying
I was worried that going to the autonomous vehicle exhibition in Stuttgart would be tantamount to an atheist walking into St Peter’s while the Pope was conducting a mass. There is something religious about the fervour with which adherents to the driverless credo practise their faith and promise us a new kingdom. Their proselytising has
Tuesday
What does Michael Cohen know?
He kept the President’s secrets about Russia as well as ‘the women.’
Friday
Is John Kelly on his way out of the White House?
The Chief of Staff shares some of Trump’s impulses and had the chance to channel them more effectively — but he has not done so.
Wallowing in self-loathing with Milo Yiannopoulos
Revisiting my notes from my April profile, it seems clear that his feuds are mere projection of his hatred for himself.
The crusade to abolish ICE is as pathetic as it is misguided
Don’t we want the President to enforce the laws of the land?
Thursday
Is Trump’s ‘space force’ really such an insane idea?
Americans traumatised by their current president could be forgiven for thinking that his demand for a ‘space force’ was about protecting the country from aliens. Aliens, that is, of extraterrestrial persuasion, not the ones currently hurling themselves against the southern border. What, really, is implausible these days? As baseball savant Yogi Berra said when told
There’s a reason restaurants everywhere are failing: Red Hen Syndrome
Anxious to find out what food they served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, I clicked on the relevant site and was transported immediately to a discount motorcycle website entirely in Korean, or Japanese, or maybe Chinese. I don’t know — I can’t tell the difference between those respective hieroglyphics. Maybe that was
Wednesday
Milo Yiannopoulos sends coded neo-Nazi message to New Yorker fact-checker
Talia Lavin received $14.88 from the provocateur.
Monday
Michael Avenatti resembles the ‘manager’ who takes an inordinate slice of a working girl’s earnings
The crusading lawyer waves the sword of justice around in order to distract us from the sleaze behind his shield.
What are the odds of Trump going to jail?
Runners and riders for Mueller’s next arrest.
Friday
To the GOP: don’t walk away from the Golden State
California is not a liberal fantasyland and conservatives exist in significant numbers.
Thursday
How Trump uses women to soften his image on immigration
‘My wife feels strongly about it. I feel strongly about it. Anybody with a heart would feel this way.’
The diversity trap
Britain seems to be following America down a dangerous path. There’s your politician David Lammy accusing Oxford and Cambridge of racial bias — and refusing to listen when they point out they simply accept whoever gets top grades. Then there’s the author Lionel Shriver, pilloried because she dared to suggest (in this magazine) that privileging
The Bible’s #MeToo problem
I write this on my last day in the Bagel, and it sure is a scorcher, heat and humidity so high that the professional beggars on Fifth Avenue have moved closer to the lakes in Central Park. Heat usually calms the passions, but nowadays groupthink pundits are so busy presenting fake news as journalism you’d
A reply to my critics: Don’t fight racism with racism
Dear 2016 WriteNow mentees, Thanks so much for your open letter to me. It seems only good manners for me to write back. You’re rightly proud of having been admitted to a challenging programme at Penguin Random House that mentors gifted young minority authors and helps to cultivate their talents. My own publisher, HarperCollins, runs
What does the British government know about Trump and Russia?
When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu visited London in 1978, the British government did some serious sucking up. Ceausescu was an egomaniac and possibly crazy. When he went hunting outside Bucharest, his body-guards shot game with machine guns so he could be photographed at the end of the day with a shoulder-high pile of dead
The #MeToo movement is making sex great again
Sexual intercourse, Philip Larkin famously wrote, began in 1963. And listening to contemporary commentators, you’d think that it came to an end in 2017 with the birth of the #MeToo movement. For these voices of doom, the end of the erotic is nigh; Britain is on the brink of sexual apocalypse. The recent news that
Wednesday
I don’t want to keep pushing the Francis-Trump analogy. But the Pope makes it tough to resist the temptation
In an interview with Reuters, the supreme pontiff uses Trumpian rhetoric to criticize the migrant children scandal.
Trump is still on the ‘offenseive’ over immigration
As the President consolidates his hold on the GOP and defies his detractors, he is relying on women as a kind of protective force field.
The club sandwich: three slices of white supremacy?
Is ‘the perfect American food’ soaked in imperialism and all-male white chumminess?
Tuesday
The Global Anglican crack up
The provinces of the Anglican Communion today have little in common beyond a historical connection to the Church of England.
The fall of James Brien Comey
Under investigation and with his own reputation in question, the former FBI director is no longer the reliable, trustworthy source he once seemed
Trump is ‘vice-signalling’ over immigration – and it’s going to work
The stories are filed, the pictures are posted, and the media verdict is almost unanimous: separating children from their parents is wrong, it is unAmerican, and President Donald Trump is going to suffer for it. His administration is baby-snatching. The ‘optics’ are terrible, say the hyperventilating PR men and Washington know-alls. But if everyone stopped