Politics
Politics
20 January 2017

What’s scarier than Trump? The elite revolt against him

Commentators, celebs, the CIA – all are in open revolt against democracy.

20 January 2017

Obama is not your ‘magical negro’

The Obama years confirmed the usurping of politics by therapy.

20 January 2017

At last – a president who doesn’t claim to be Irish

Trump has broken with the blarney of claiming green roots.

19 January 2017

Labour: from socialism to miserabilism

Corbynistas are made more outraged by the rich than by poverty.

19 January 2017

Can we destroy civil liberties? Yes we can

Obama was worse for freedom and peace than Bush was.

18 January 2017

Trump and Obama: foreign-policy bedfellows

Both men are reluctant interventionists, but no less dangerous for that.

16 January 2017

For Hunt, the party’s over

But the Corbynistas are as aloof as the 'Blairites'.

12 January 2017

Yes, Obama, democracy is in danger – but not from voters

His speech put a ‘democratic’ spin on age-old elite prejudices.

5 January 2017

The teaching assistants who took on the system

Durham TAs show us how to challenge pay cuts.