by DAVID FLINT – ON THE Fourth of July, the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of their separation from the British Crown. Plagued by institutional paralysis and cultural fracture, this is a fitting moment to ask a fundamental question. A…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WITH no clear end in view to the Middle East war, critics are partly right in claiming US President Donald Trump is releasing UFO files as a diversion from stalled peace talks. At the outset I’ll put my…
by PAUL COLLITS – THINGS started heading south pretty early in Trump’s first go at the presidency. Not so much in terms of intent or policy, but in the chaotic White House. He ran a turnstiles personnel policy, that was beyond parody….
by PAUL COLLITS – MY DEAR, late mother – before she succumbed to the inevitable senior’s mental deterioration, aka dementia – was a cryptic crossword aficionado. For whatever reason, I still remember one particular clue she once shared with me. It was…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE one key and unasked question following Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuelan domestic affairs has to be – when is he coming for Albo? And how do we make the case and put it to the Pentagon? Nothing…
by PAUL COLLITS – SEAN Connery’s most memorable line in The Untouchables, for which he won an Oscar, runs as follows: “You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to…
by FRED PAWLE – THE assassination of Charlie Kirk has become a catalyst for both sides of our irredeemably divided society. One side has decided murder is legitimate. Politics is unlikely to resolve this. There’s a reason Kirk’s assassination – or to…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE with a good memory and an eye to American politics will recall, with ease, the personnel chaos that was the Trump 1.0 administration. Some of the appointments to key posts were embarrassments, the internecine wars were the…
by PAUL COLLITS – A PHRASE that you probably will never come across in the history books on American politics is “he was a consequential vice president”. Obviously, no one would ever include “she” in such a statement. There has only ever…
by PAUL COLLITS – AFTER two assassination attempts many people regarded Donald Trump’s arrival again at the Big House as a miracle. It was seen as God’s intent to save America – and perhaps the world – from the ravages of post-Christian,…
