comment I gatecrashed a Maga event while covering the US election
ABOUT a week ago, I gatecrashed a Maga fundraising dinner in downtown Milwaukee. The event, held in the opulent art deco ballroom of the city’s Hilton hotel, opened with a prayer ...
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A RECENT controversy provides insight into the strategy and leadership style of Keir Starmer.
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Europe remains at a crossroads as it faces an existential crisis
LAST week, 44 world leaders landed in Prague for the inaugural meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), a new strategic platform launched by French president Emmanuel Macron.
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Brazil's election is on a knife-edge – but could offer us hope
AT the end of another bleak year, a little bit of hope might emerge from an unlikely source.
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The UK is no longer a functioning multi-nation state. What hope does it have?
AT the end of last month, as the Scottish Parliament was dissolving ahead of the Holyrood election, ministers in Boris Johnson’s government made two announcements related to Scotland and the future integrity of the UK. The first was symbolic. From now on, government buildings across the country (although not in Northern Ireland) would be required to fly the Union flag every day as a “proud reminder of our history and the ties that bind us,” the Conservative culture secretary, Oliver Dowden
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Joe Biden winning US election is the last big hope for a world on fire
ON Tuesday, American voters will get the chance to end Donald Trump’s planetary death drive. It’s no exaggeration to say that the Trump administration will go down as one of the most environmentally destructive in modern American history. To illustrate the existential stakes of this election, here’s just a partial summary of Trump’s assault on the climate over the past four years.
REVIEW Bold claims at heart of new book on the birthplace of Scottish nationalism
MODERN Scottish nationalism was born in the pages of the New Left Review (NLR), sometime in the mid-1960s.
Farewell but not goodbye: Exploring the vigils in Scotland that marked Brexit
BORIS Johnson hailed “the dawn of a new era” and Nigel Farage congratulated himself for having “transformed the landscape of our country”... but at 11 pm on Friday, January 31, as Britain finally and officially exited the EU, the mood among the 1500 or so people who had gathered outside Holyrood to mark the passing of their European citizenship was funereal rather than festive, the rhetoric sombre rather than celebratory.
What are the chances of a Labour-SNP pact after December 12?
NEXT Friday morning, British voters will wake up faced with one of two stark political realities. Either the Conservatives will have a majority in the House of Commons and Boris Johnson will return to
Boris' big problem in the General Election campaign? No one trusts him
BORIS Johnson is beatable. That’s the core lesson from the first few days of this General Election campaign. The Tories have always had a clear strategy: hammer home the party’s determination to remove Britain from the EU — and crush Jeremy Corbyn.
