"Just bees, and things and flowers" Like a lot of formerly news-hungry journalists these days I can hardly bear to open the many journals I subscribe to. But today I read last week's FT Life of a Song. And Roy Ayers Sunshine blew Trump thunderstorms away. At the end of the piece, filled with enticing links and references, the author, Arwa Haider, invites readers to share … [Read more...] about Forget Trump: ‘Everybody loves the sunshine’
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Fox News wins it for Trump
Donald Trump’s ratings continue to slide on most issues. Recent Economist/YouGov polling across the US, completed on May 9-12, shows 51% think the country is on the wrong track, while only 45% have a favourable impression of his job as president. On inflation and prices in the shops, only 35% approve of his handling of this policy. Trump seems to be scoring particularly badly … [Read more...] about Fox News wins it for Trump
This is serious: Trump wants Greenland and Panama
Donald Trump's controversial statements this week about the US claiming territories like Greenland and the Panama Canal zone are no doubt absurd. Can Russia now claim to have been conned out of selling Alaska to the US nearly 200 years ago? Can France make a similar claim over the 1803 Louisiana Purchase? Would Mexico like to take California and Texas back? And yet, Trump is … [Read more...] about This is serious: Trump wants Greenland and Panama
Welcome to a dark future under Trump 2.0
The world has been upended in just a week since Trump's sweeping victory - or at least for "liberal progressives." Many of these read the runes of Trump's recapture of the US presidency and Senate and retention of the House as giving "liberal elites" a deserved bloody nose. In explaining his triumph they excused or at least glossed over his excesses and accused Biden, Harris … [Read more...] about Welcome to a dark future under Trump 2.0
Blowing up the transatlantic bridge
Be afraid. Be very afraid. In this honeymoon period of the new Labour Government, there’s more than enough to send shivers down the spine: at home the prospect of an austerity Autumn Budget to meet public services pay bills with inevitable tax rises and abroad an extended/expanded Middle East war and/or rapid deterioration in Ukraine’s defences despite the imminent arrival of … [Read more...] about Blowing up the transatlantic bridge