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Jeremy Clarkson: A ‘birther’ born yesterday
Former regressive of the week, Jeremy Clarkson, has spent far too much of his life around petrol fumes. His nutty gaze has risen north from Mexico to the incumbent of the oval office, deciding, as any...
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Romney bizarrely pleased that Donald Trump has endorsed him
Yesterday was Groundhog Day in the United States, and soon after Punxsutawny Phil gave the bad news that we’ve got six more weeks of winter, Mitt Romney received his own bad news: He’s been endorsed...
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Trump, Salmond, Megrahi and the eroding of Scottish democracy
This Sunday a documentary will be aired on BBC Two on Donald Trump’s plans to build a golf resort in Aberdeenshire. The film’s director, Anthony Baxter, has described it as a “David and Goliath”...
View ArticleElection 2012′s funniest moment? Trump’s Twitter meltdown
Donald Trump, “the Donald”, had something of a freak out on Twitter overnight, unable to accept the reality of Barack Obama’s win. Not for Trump the dignity of Mitt Romney’s concession speech, but a...
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“Grossly distorting the facts”– Salmond, Trump and yet more misleading...
SNP leader Alex Salmond has been accused, once again, of giving misleading statements, this time involving the arrest of film maker Anthony Baxter – who dared to make a film about Salmond’s friend...
View ArticleTrump and Fox attack Islam again – this time over NYC’s ‘Ground Zero Mosque’
Fox News has re-launched one of its many anger-fuelled campaigns, this one being their outrage at the existence of the Park51 Muslim Community Center in Manhattan. Fox broadcast a ‘discussion piece’ on...
View ArticleDog Whistles, Trump and the Death of Manners
At every Donald Trump rally there is a moment when the reality show host yells: ‘We love our police, don’t we?’ The crowd roars back its agreement. To the uninitiated the exchange seems innocuous....
View ArticleNotes from the Primaries: Can the frontrunners reclaim control?
The later part of April provides both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the opportunity to reassert degrees of control over their nomination battles. Both frontrunners are polling well in the upcoming...
View ArticleNotes from the primaries: Is Trump getting a makeover?
2016 Overview As we discussed last week, the central question in the Presidential race now is whether Clinton and Trump can use the late April states to reestablish control over their nominating...
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Clinton vs Trump: What to expect in the US presidential elections
There isn’t an obvious opening on domestic issues for the Republican Party this election cycle. The economy is vastly improved under President Obama from where it was after the financial crash, and...
View ArticleTrump talks a lot of nonsense — but calling it out won’t stop him
As Donald Trump seized the Republican presidential nomination, many political pundits rushed to predict his decimation at the hands of the Clinton electoral machine in November. What’s more, they...
View ArticleCould Democrats win the White House, swing the Senate and edge the House?
Last week, I surveyed the early landscape for the autumn elections and found that it is a year of opportunity for Democrats. This week we drill down on one piece of this story – 2016’s electoral...
View ArticleBrexiters’ Trumpish foreign policy is incoherent and dangerous
The case for Brexit as made by its official campaign spokesmen has had two main components, beyond saving money: free of the yoke of EU membership, Britain could form its own trading deals and reduce...
View ArticleIs Trump the first strong Republican leader since Reagan?
While Donald Trump still faces enormous challenges in his campaign for the White House, the last few weeks have been very good ones for him. His primary ended earlier than many expected, and well...
View ArticleClinton in control as Trump bump flattens out
Image: Hillary for America Two weeks ago we found movement in the weekly tracking polls for Trump that soon became an official ‘Trump bump.’ The race closed from an eight to ten point Clinton lead to...
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Could cash-strapped Trump be replaced at the convention?
The last few weeks have been remarkably bad ones for Donald Trump. His erratic performance has pushed his poll numbers down. Voices of dissent in his own party have grown louder, and stories about...
View ArticleBullies like Donald Trump will not vanish if we ignore them
Press notes describe A Child’s First Book of Trump – a book of Dr Seuss-style verse about the presidential candidate – as a ‘parody picture book intended for adults’. Its author Michael Ian Black has...
View ArticleHillary Clinton bounces after brilliant convention
Clinton-v-Trump Overview As expected, we yesterday saw early evidence of a Clinton bounce. CBS has Clinton going from 43/44 to 47/41. Morning Consult from 40/44 to 43/40 and PPP and Ipsos/Reuters...
View ArticleNigel Farage’s support for Donald Trump should end claim UKIP is not racist
Nigel Farage’s pep talk at a Donald Trump rally ought to put to rest the argument about whether UKIP is a racist party. Is there still an argument? Certainly. UKIP picked up 12.6 per cent of the...
View ArticleWATCH: Hillary Clinton’s scorching attack on Nigel Farage
‘I wouldn’t vote for Clinton if you paid me,’ Nigel Farage told a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday. He intended it as a insult, but Hillary has repurposed the denouncement and worn it as a badge of...
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