If not Biden, who?
He would be in his mid-eighties at the end of a second term and there are reasonable concerns in the Democrat party that while many people of that age are sprightly and alert, Joe Biden is not among them.
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San Francisco gallery owner shows how lawlessness brings merchants to a breaking point
A video of San Francisco gallery owner Shannon Collier Gwin spraying a hose at a homeless person who camped outside of his business went viral.
Right and Wrong on Ukraine
Why has the debate on the Ukraine–Russia war become so fetid, especially on the political right? Why are members of Congress from the Republican Party the ones most outspoken against support for Ukraine? Why is it the Right that has produced the most fervent anti-interventionists, when it used to be the political Left that did […]
SNP is sacrificing confused kids on the altar of self-rule
The so-called Gender Recognition Act proposes that a 16-year-old may be too young to buy a pint but they can make life-changing decisions about their sex and be recognised as such by the state.
If only Harry took after his grandfather
All the Royals could all moan about their lot and make fake and not very plausible appeals to public pity. But they don’t. They get on with things.
The state of New York state? Terrifying!
It’s often said that making laws is like making sausages: best not to look. Well after Tuesday in Albany I can tell you that I’d rather spend a month watching lawyers making sausages than suffer another hour of Gov Hochul making non-announcements.
Remainer elites were the original election deniers
It is a convenient fiction for the liberal-Left that the threat comes solely from the ‘populist’ Right
How to get nothing done
I sometimes wonder whether our government makes any decisions at all. In fact I’m trying to think of any area of public policy that is not the subject of a review, commission, inquiry or similar.
Even Biden’s America is booming compared with basket-case Britain
Our many problems are not shared across the Atlantic, where economic growth is strong and public services are run properly
Don’t bet against New York (he says hopefully)
Even in December and January people want to come to New York. Why? For the reasons they always have — for the same reason I have — because it is a center of the world.
George Santos takes the cake, but why does Joe Biden get a pass for his lies?
Rep.-elect George Santos has been under fire for a laundry list of lies he seems to have boasted to give a boost to his career.
There’s no cause for optimism about broken Britain
Despair at the way the country is running isn’t a passing mood, it’s based on objective reality