As cries of controversy continue to reverberate and the shock waves from an unexpected election result discombobulate us all and the tremors keep us on ever trembling and the twin senses of fear and anticipation only grow and grow and grow, and as the atmosphere becomes increasingly toxic and the situation threatens to take a nuclear turn, things have already…
As Hillary Clinton convulsed onto the stage in seizures ahead of the debate, followed by her almost erstwhile foe Donald Trump, who sniffled and sputtered the last air from his lungs, what has hitherto been hidden on the tumultuous road to the 2016 United States presidential election at once became eminently clear. For to paraphrase Walter Sobchak, descendant of Polish-Catholic…
Open mouthed as though awestruck, for several months now Nigel Farage has been ravenously fellating his United States counterpart Donald Trump. At a 15,000-strong rally in Jackson, Mississippi in August, Farage spoke to stimulate the Trump grassroots, suggesting that The Donald and his supporters could ‘smash the establishment’, and like a geyser the compliments continued to come. Trump portrayed Farage as…
One inherited the real estate empire built up by his father, Fred Trump, who by the 1970s was one of the richest people in America with a fortune of around $200 million. Fred made his way by profiteering from public contracts, and according to folk singer Woody Guthrie and the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, he was a…
One flighty and endearingly capricious, enthralling the masses as he flounces from stage to stage, flailing his arms like a windsock puppet and unspooling from wet lips his one slogan about making America great. The other a man of firm conviction, the steely glint in his eyes matched only by the steely grey of hair whose colour somehow seems to permeate…
The United States has pitched a curveball to the international community, and it’s one even a steady bat might not be able to hit. Because despite a lukewarm response from even its closest allies, the country has vowed to press ahead with plans for a free-form month of June, in order to make space for an annual Fourth of July weekend….
