If you want to feel wanted, give your email address to a political party. Or, better yet, give your address to all three major federal parties and watch them compete for your attention. To be emailed on a regular basis by the party machines is to understand politics as a competition of great consequence. Your…
Despite all the warning signs the first time around, the world is paying a very heavy price for Trump 2.0 The post Alastair Campbell’s diary: Donald Trump, America’s unserious narcissist appeared first on Alastair Campbell. Source link
There are relatively few events that could persuade me to leave my voluntary retirement from the intellectual hard graft of political blogging. However, the appalling events in the state of Israel and whatever territorial scraps are left of the promised state of Palestine make it difficult not to offer at least a couple of observations….
The takeaway: Massie wants to end the Fed. That is low-hanging fruit. The Federal Reserve again finds itself as the political football for a congressman, this time in the name of U.S. Representative Thomas Massie. The Kentucky congressman today announced the introduction of HR 1846, the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act. The Act would abolish…
May 4, 2020 – 04:57 am Alberta Liberals would put resources into illness prevention David Swann, leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, says a Liberal government would put resources into illness prevention. The announcement came on Tuesday when the Alberta Liberal party released its healthcare platform. According to Swann, illness prevention would reduce hospital bed…
How much damage has JD Vance done to US-UK relations? If not the UK, which country was he referring to as “some random country”? How can we stop playing Trump’s game? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more. The Rest Is Politics is powered by Fuse Energy. Fuse are giving…
Antisemitism is widespread in some jurisdictions, including American blacks, so trying to shut up Owens just tends to discredit the censor. We should tolerate antisemites, and argue with them gently. Otherwise they will go on unchallenged. I put my money where my mouth is. I have been a Zionist for at least 70 years but…
Two weeks ago the exiled Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef took part in a live online debate with Piers Morgan, the conservative British TV presenter, that ignited something of a firestorm on the internet. Despite the technical limitations of the remotely held discussion, the highly articulate Youssef pretty much eviscerated the talking-points of those defending Israel’s…
The Takeaway: Don’t get triggered by the politics. One man is not the economy. No amount of reason is going to quiet the Trump Derangement Syndrome running rampant through the electorate of the United States. I am in the camp that the President does not have a reach extensive enough to put a negative dent…
Editor’s note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself. SOME readers, particularly those used to the left-right split in most democratic legislatures, are bamboozled by The…