Donald Trump is like a well-greased pig at a US County Fair. Every time the hands of consequence try to grab him, he wriggles free, squealing about witch hunts and…
When four Republican Senators couldn’t find their spines, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the green light to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before her bench cushion was even…
Midterm elections are the temper tantrums of US politics. Halfway through every Presidential term, the party of POTUS takes a reliable kicking from an electorate that wails and stamps their…
Like the names of bloody battles embroidered on a tattered regimental flag, Uvalde now takes its place alongside Sandy Hook, Parkland and Columbine. In the annual charnel house of over…
My wife and I argue far more about politics than we used to. Trump does that to you. We don’t disagree on the need to remove his corrosive presence from…
Predicting the end game of the Trump presidency is clearly dangerous, as time after time, the ante has been upped on the outrageous and unprecedented with no real consequences. But…
It’s 10.45pm last Wednesday night and I’m in one of my happy places. Wedged into a hard uncomfortable seat in the Blue Note in Greenwich Village, I’m about to experience…
It’s a standard Hollywood script. Spur your protagonist to action by threatening their kids. Poke their lizard brain paternal instinct and watch them go full Liam Neeson in Taken ….
Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle wrote that ‘the history of the world is but the biography of great men’. That theory was tested recently by academics from UCLA who used eight…
The Trump presidency is coming to a predictably violent climax, but I’m not going to spend this column rehashing last week’s shocking events in Washington. I’m also not going to…