How will we ever repay the debt we owe Israel? What the Jewish state has done in the past year will rank among the most important contributions to the defence of Western civilisation in the past 75 years.
Polls point to an incredibly narrow race but they badly underestimated Donald Trump’s white working-class support in 2016.
Media is full of dire warnings about mass riots from Trump supporters but a Harris loss threatens to be far from peaceful.
Kamala Harris has learned from women like Margaret Thatcher to combine toughness with femininity. But there is one common quality former successful female leaders share which is beyond the Vice President.
After the most aggressive marketing rollout for a product since Coke reinvented Santa Claus and a disastrous few weeks for Donald Trump, Kamala Harris has stormed out to a bit more than a 1-point lead in the opinion polls.
‘Mind your own damn business,’ Tim Walz says, belying the Democrats’ didactic attitude. They are the teachers, equipped with the knowledge and authority to direct their hapless charges – us.
Forced out of the election, a frail Joe Biden has gone to ground – but is obliged by Democratic imperatives to see out his term.
Politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose – but if you believe a President Harris will more closely resemble last week’s Candidate Kamala than the vice-president from the last four years it isn’t poetry you’ve been reading. It’s a fairy tale.
Politics can be a brutal business but the elimination of Joe Biden by the Democrats has been among the most efficient and ruthless acts since Henry VIII decided he wanted a new wife.
The ruthless dispatch of the former president was less Brutus and Cassius and more Jack Kevorkian – not a hail of knives in the back but a soft word in the ear, a gentle squeeze on the syringe, and farewell, my lovely.
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