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Sarah BaxterThe Times |
The US President has cleared his White House diary to concentrate on the midterm elections. Trump regards himself as “the closer”, the guy who can...
Bo French is a Republican politician running for election to an obscure regulatory body called the Texas Railroad Commission. He was a nobody until...
“What a job he did tonight,” President Donald Trump beamed at his deputy, JD Vance. The Republican convention in Dallas was meant to focus...
Roll up, roll up for the 2028 presidential contest. I know we haven’t had the midterm elections yet, but the unusual mid-season Republican Party...
The Democrats have finally come up with a mid-term message that they think will resonate with voters. As you might expect, it’s all about Donald...
“I heard you missed me,” Melania Trump teased last night at her first public outing in a month since the World Cup final. “Here I am.” Timing...
To celebrate 50 years of independence from Britain, the kingdom of Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini in 2018. I had to look up the tiny nation on...
Donald Trump has been musing on the prospect of defeat at the midterm elections. Interviewed by Punchbowl News, he admitted: “I think we are going...
Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Pime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting in Washington designed to clear the air between them this week....
President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a one-word answer about whether the White House would intervene in the UK extradition...
JD Vance calls his new book on his spiritual journey Communion but it reads as a confession of his cynicism and ambition. There are remnants of the...
President Trump appears to have a new target in his retribution campaign – agony aunt E Jean Carroll. She’s as tough as old boots but I fear for...
Has Donald Trump entered the bunker phase of his presidency? He didn’t seem keen to leave the White House when asked a perfectly natural question...
China’s president Xi Jinping appears to have been studying King Charles’s royal playbook when dealing with Donald Trump. Step one: bedazzle the US...
To his admirers, Donald Trump is playing 3- or 4-D chess with such aplomb that they can always identify a considered strategy behind his seemingly...
Amazon is reportedly toying with the idea of making Donald Trump Jr the host of a reboot of The Apprentice, the TV show that paved the way for his...
Donald Trump’s madcap threat to destroy Iran’s “whole civilisation” sent shudders down spines in Washington. Armageddon has been averted for...
Donald Trump held an Easter lunch at the White House attended by faith leaders and cabinet members which was barred to the media. Things went wrong,...
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), America’s biggest annual Republican get-together, is taking place in Grapevine,...
Say what you like about Donald Trump, but he dishes it out to his friends’ faces, not just behind their backs. The polite half of the world was...
We are beginning to see in real time what happens when a vain, looksmaxxing US secretary of war encounters death and destruction, and it isn’t...
When the Iran war started, JD Vance was photographed in the White House Situation Room looking disheveled and tieless beneath the grand seal of the...
Donald Trump has been doing his own spinning about Operation Epic Fury with a round of media interviews. But behind the confident chatter, the US...
Donald Trump has at last got the Clintons where he wanted – in the dock, giving testimony about Jeffrey Epstein to Congress. Trump first mooted the...
President Trump is in a massive sulk over the upcoming White House governors dinner on 20 February. His own side is unhappy and Democrats are...