Like most people I watched the events unfolding last night with horror and shock. This is a massive moment for Trump supporters, particularly the MAGA/QAnon crowd; this is the moment that verifies every deep state conspiracy theory. There is no hint of shock or sadness from hardcore Trump fans on-line. They greeted the news of … Read more
With Trump now a convicted felon it is hard to see a path for him back to the White House. Even before this Trump’s campaign was doing badly. The majority of the money raised goes into paying his legal fees rather than campaigning, and money talks in US politics. Trump doesn’t have enough of it … Read more
Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers to win last weekend’s Super Bowl. The Chiefs star player, tight end Travis Kelce, was hugged by his girlfriend megastar Taylor Swift. I don’t really know what a tight end is, but I do know this was the most watched event on US TV since the Moon … Read more
Predictions A Conservative MP will be found guilty of rape/violent sexual assault A Conservative MP will defect to Reform The Conservatives will defend several by-elections and lose all of them (*see below) There will be a UK general election in May. Labour will win with a small, but working majority. There will be widespread Russian … Read more
One year ago this week Donald Trump lost the US presidential election. It seems like a lot more recent than that because his endless attempted recounts, and futile attempts at litigation, mean that we get to experience the joy of watching him lose over and over again. It never gets tired. I am currently banned … Read more
With Trump finally leaving office I asked some Trump fans to write with their view on his Presidency. None took up the offer, so I thought I would write something myself, a sequel to my blog on Nightmare Trump Art: There are lots of ways you can categorise politicians; left and right, liberal or … Read more
I think that we can all breathe out now and accept that Joe Biden will be the next President, and hopefully a bit of normality will take hold again. Biden won with a record number of votes, but Democrats down the ticket did worse than opinion polls suggested. From Brexit in 2016 to Trump vs … Read more
Updated For my last blog before the US elections I had hoped to persuade some Trump supporters to share why they were so keen to see him re-elected. Sadly I was only able to find two Trump supporters to share their views, one from the US, one from the UK. Not sure whether this is … Read more
I joined some pro-Trump and QAnon/Save the Children groups to research a blog on the coming American Election/Coup D’etat. Frankly what I found was too strange to get my head round, a combination of authoritarianism, conspiracy theories, and new age weirdness. I expected to find fanaticism but all I found was heart breaking loneliness and … Read more
Hegel remarks…. that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl Marx 18th Brumaire. I get reminded of this quote on a daily basis when people make comparisons between our current age and the 1930s, in particular … Read more