As Nancy Pelosi steps down as Democratic party leader after legislative triumphs spanning four presidencies, she is earning plaudits as a legendary figure with monumental achievements including Obama’s Affordable Care Act. She is renowned as a bare-knuckle, ruthlessly effective politician and one who was able to draw together disparate factions in the party with an … Read more
Michel Moore, the documentary maker and left-wing activist, is convinced against the general consensus that the Democrats will win big in the midterms. He predicts there will be a record turnout of younger voters whose views pundits and commentators often miss, who have been riled by the SCOTUS anti-abortion vote. He says the biggest political … Read more
A savage attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband leaving him with a fractured skull has raised concern not only about this incident but about the increase in threats of violence against lawmakers, judges and political candidates with tensions rising before the midterm elections on November 8th. Threats against members of Congress are up by a multiple … Read more
Prince Harry’s pact with the devil – media and money – is creaking towards a crescendo with every indication that he will regret selling his gripes for fame, fortune and vindication. Apart from anything else tedium is setting in and were it not for the damage his personal wrecking mission could cause to the monarchy … Read more
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) the far-right Congresswoman and white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, has spread around her delusions over QAnon, Pizzagate, mass shootings, the alleged killings perpetrated by the Clinton family, and the 9/11 attacks. Before running for Congress, she supported calls to execute prominent Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and … Read more
Undead Boris, try-try-again Rishi or fishy Penny Mordaunt is the platter du jour for Tory MPs as they wrestle for the soul of the party in the desperate hope of staving off implosion at the next General Election. Candidates need 100 MP nominations to run which have to be whipped up this week. The right … Read more
Saudi Arabia’s bullish young Crown Prince MBS has rejected the olive branch offered by Joe Biden and opted to back Russia in the fight over oil prices. In the short term Putin wins with Opec+ agreeing to a surprise reduction in supply that will push prices up. But it could backfire badly on MBS, who … Read more
A federal investigation into Hunter Biden has concluded there is enough evidence to criminally charge him with tax crimes and lying about his drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018 according to reports. The US attorney in Delaware, a Trump appointee, has not yet decided whether to file criminal charges in the case. … Read more
Voter gloom about the Biden presidency with inflation rising and an economic recession approaching, and no sign of immigration or crime being tackled effectively pointed to a sure-fire loss in the November midterms. But the polling gap is closing after the unpopular anti-abortion rulings and the Trump classified-document farrago at Mar-a-Lago and now the New … Read more
The New York Times has been evoking squeals of outrage for its provocatively unsympathetic coverage of the Queen’s death, blaming her for the sins of Empire. Within hours after her death the NY Times kicked off its coverage with a Harvard academic saying readers should not ‘romanticise her era’ because the Queen ‘helped obscure a … Read more