Matt McDonald is the managing editor of The Spectator’s US edition.
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Americans awoke on Sunday morning to find themselves bathing in wave after wave of schadenfreude. In Melbourne, the unthinkable had happened: the US Women’s National Team had been defeated – and eliminated from the football World Cup. The online criticism was unrelenting. ‘They really are equal to the men’s team,’ said The Spectator World’s Stephen L.
He dubbed Special Counsel Jack Smith ‘a deranged lunatic’ and ‘a raging and uncontrolled Trump hater’
‘Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?’
Special Counsel Jack Smith has charged the former president in connection with the classified documents scandal
Candidates will need a minimum of 40,000 unique donors
This animated dog has gone too far
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A New York federal jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author E. Jean Carroll. The jury ordered the former president to pay Carroll $5 million (£4 million) in compensatory and punitive damages. Trump was not found liable for the more serious charge of rape leveled against him by
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Many Brits who’ve outstayed their welcome in the Old Country head across the Pond for pastures new and the chance of a fresh start. The Pilgrims, Thomas Paine, John Oliver. Could former prime minister Liz Truss be the next to follow that well-trodden path? Since her astonishing fall from grace last September, when she managed
The president appears ignorant of the concussion risk posed by the sport he played in college
Why would you act like this if you want people to believe a legal decision is fair?
A grand jury has voted to charge the former president
The public demands another car-crash interview with a skilled professional, please
Day one on the trail in New Hampshire with the unlikely presidential candidate
On the ground at the Republican candidate’s New Hampshire town hall
Former New York Post editor Emma-Jo Morris describes how Twitter suppressed her story
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This week Freddy is joined by Matt McDonald, US managing editor of The Spectator, who is covering the midterms from Georgia. What will the result of the run-off be there and could this decide who takes control of the Senate?
Neither Herschel Walker nor Raphael Warnock was able to break 50 percent
She’s been running a national campaign for four years. Why is it backfiring?
Politician-turned-celebrity attacks celebrity-turned-politician
The Appalachian Alpine town offers a blissful escape from midterm attack ads
