Democrats find it easier to blame Russia than accept that they lost in a fair fight

There was laughter. Not because this was an intended joke by Donald Trump, but because his words were so flippant, so careless, so ignorant, so utterly deplorable, that laughter was the only psychological human release available to sane men and women after such tragic frivolity

This is our chance to stop the torrent of lies before it drowns us

While Beyoncé and Stevie Wonder performed for Barack Obama, Trump couldn’t swing a cat without hitting three cover bands and Angelina Jolie’s dad

From Woolworths and Toys R Us to John Lewis and this year’s Polish man learning English, the best ever seasonal commercials

Philip Davies spoke for 78 minutes about how this bill might somehow, somewhere, in some inscrutable way harm men. 'If only we could rely on a balanced contribution,' he lamented, in a Parliament which is 71 per cent male

The point about Donald Trump is indeed that he is no politician, and that’s what America wanted this time round. They don’t want great speeches; they want jobs

So much hangs on the accuracy of the individual state-by-state polls – especially those in the big states – and not on the nationwide polls

The Labour leader went back to the ‘old politics’ of soundbites and trying to exploit the governing party’s divisions – and put the Prime Minister on the defensive 

America can only hope the pattern of Hillary Clinton's political career continues to hold: she's always been better in office than when running for it

The terrifying thing is many of us thought we’d seen the back of the likes of Melania. But her type is back, draped over American politics like a bikini model at a Birmingham NEC car show 

From the claim that the ‘wandering womb’ could turn women hysterical to the modern idea that hormones exert complete control over our lives, this is the oldest form of sexism in the book

His vicious attacks during the second presidential debate may have fed the rage of his base, but they are unlikely to have won over many wavering voters

The remarks in the audio recording cannot be dismissed as ‘locker room banter’ - they were deliberately misogynistic

Trump whined about Clinton's ads against him. Was repeatedly defensive

Remember when millions of people with no meaningful view on the EU referendum heard a multi-millionaire West Hampstead mega-star called Emma Thompson call Britain “a misery-laden cake-fuelled grey old island”? This is Whedon's Emma Thompson moment

This week Theresa May quoted a Twitter user in PMQs who, it transpires, had defended the man who killed Jo Cox and said of the recent killing of a Polish man in Britain: ‘Every time a Polish person gets lamped, it will always be a Brexit hate crime, even if they asked for it’

This week, Theresa May was hopeless – because Jeremy Corbyn was

I voted remain. However, I wasn’t one of the people who went into a deep and dark period of mourning. I was prepared to be optimistic about leaving the EU