Donald Trump

Nigel Farage has pledged to bet £10,000 on Donald Trump winning a second term in the White House, claiming Trump would prove pundits wrong as he had done in 2016. This comes as Farage fights allegations he broke US quarantine rules to attend a Donald Trump rally in Arizona Wednesday night. The Brexit Party leader claimed he was […]

Nigel Farage has said he could enter the US to attend a Donald Trump rally – where many spectators did not wear masks – because he has a “journalistic visa”. The Brexit Party politician appeared on Good Morning Britain to answer questions as to why he thought it was a good idea to travel across the globe […]

Mitch Benn says Joe Biden’s altruism beats Donald Trump’s cynicism. I do realise that I’ve been talking about America a lot just recently (and that this paper is called The New European) but I feel I should cast at least a nervous nod across the pond this week as this will be the last column […]

With passions at fever-pitch, many Americans believe the November 3 election is make or break for the US, regardless of whether they back Donald Trump or Joe Biden. But whether the Republican business tycoon remains in the White House or if his Democratic challenger ousts him will also have a profound effect on the rest […]

So what is a role model? Before I give you the definition offered by the Oxford English Dictionary – itself a role model, dare I say, in the world of words – just put the paper down, and have a think about that question… what is a role model? Who, if you have or have […]

What do the beheading of a teacher in France, the suspension of a digital portal in Belarus and tweets about postal ballots in the US elections have in common? They are all different ways in which freedom of expression is being abused. The issue is sometimes seen as ephemeral, but it shouldn’t be. It is […]

Will the future be bright – or will it be orange? These are the key times for the American election results for those watching in the UK. Britons have got used to waking up the morning after the US elections and knowing right away whether to happily spring out of bed for the TV remote […]

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has issued a dig about Donald Trump’s approach to trade, and has insisted British values would not be compromised for post-Brexit trade deals. Truss said Britain would reject a Donald Trump-style “Britain First” approach as she criticised “values-free globalisation” in a keynote speech in London. In a Chatham House address Truss said […]

Rikha Sharma Rani looks at whether Donald Trump could lose a section of his religious support to Joe Biden. On a Monday afternoon in June, Donald Trump stood holding a bible in front of St John’s Episcopal Church in Washington DC. He turned it over to look at the spine – seemingly checking to see that […]

Bonnie Greer looks at Sam Elliott’s adverts for Joe Biden, which aim to sway Donald Trump voters away from the president. In the United States, the various voting demographics are labelled in terms that most British citizens, and just about anyone else, might find offensive. So, there are ‘white suburban women with college degrees’, and […]

James Ball looks at how a Donald Trump defeat would effect the USA, and the world. The consensus is in: there is something like an 85% to 90% chance that Democratic candidate Joe Biden will win the presidential election next week and begin the countdown to his inauguration in January 2021. But if people have strong […]

Questions have been raised over Nigel Farage’s quarantine status after he appeared on stage at a Donald Trump rally in the US. Footage of Farage giving a speech at Trump’s re-election rally in Arizona overnight has raised concerns the Brexit Party leader flouted US quarantine regulations. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the US’s national public […]

With just one week until the US election, we want to know who you think will win the vote? Will we wake up to the horrors of another four years of Donald Trump, or is it the end of populism and the emergence of decency in politics again with the election of Joe Biden? Have […]

Britain will not have the same prominence in Washington it has been previously used to be because it is “less useful to the US administration”, a  former senior diplomat and crossbench peer has claimed. Peter Ricketts, who has spent 40 years defending Britain’s interests in the world, believes our interest in the world will be severely […]

Boris Johnson’s administration is said to be “frantically repositioning” itself for Joe Biden to win the US election, former Tory chancellor George Osborne has claimed. Osborne appeared on CNN to claim that the Brexiteers in government will find it “hard to pivot toward a Biden administration”. “There’s no doubt that the Brexit government here will […]

I read that Dame Julie Walters, having recently turned 70 and survived a brush with cancer, has said that she’s considering retiring from acting, although she might be tempted back to do Mamma Mia 3 if it happens. What’s perhaps interesting about this announcement is the fact that it’s considered newsworthy at all… A woman […]

Given the low-level background dread that is life in 2020, picking out any individual source of anxiety can often be all-but impossible – but one obvious exception for many of us is looking towards the impending US presidential election, now less than two weeks away. In the pit of our stomachs, many of us have […]

Recent developments in the Middle East do not represent a significant shift towards the settling of the fundamental problems that still blight the region, says PAUL KNOTT The recent agreements normalising relations with some small Arab states are a success for Israel. For decades, it has sought recognition from the Arab world while avoiding making […]

One of the few times that Columbo was almost killed by a person he was investigating was in a 1994 episode called Butterflies In Shades Of Grey. It starred William Shatner as a radio talk show host who killed a friend of his stepdaughter. What is remarkable about the episode is that it is the first time […]

Everybody has a different reason for sitting down and writing a book. Martin Bell wrote his latest because he nearly died.  Almost two years ago the former BBC war correspondent and independent MP suffered head injuries similar to those from a car crash when he tripped over his suitcase at Gatwick Airport after returning from […]

Never mind the polls in the race for the White House, a new survey shows a more complex picture of America’s deeper fault lines. The bitter polarisation of the American election is only too obvious. For many of us, the contours of the battle are clear: in one corner, Joe Biden: a decent, moderate candidate […]

The world knows by now that Kamala Devi Harris, the junior senator from California and number two at the top of the Democrats’ electoral ticket this election cycle, was born in October 1964 to a Jamaican father and a Tamil Nadu mother. Both were immigrants and both were PhDs. Her babyhood was spent being taken […]

Piers Morgan is one of those Marmite characters people tend either to love or to hate. My relationship with him is more complicated, and can and does veer between the two. One of the things that is often said of him, and of me, is that we have strong opinions, never change them, and always […]

Piers Morgan has claimed that Donald Trump winning the US election in November would be the best result for the UK. The Good Morning Britain presenter said that Trump has provided more assurances of a post-Brexit trade deal, and his return to the White House would secure a deal, whereas Democratic rival Joe Biden has given no […]

The contenders are… NIGEL FARAGEThe nicotine-stained man-frog certainly knows a gap in the market when he sees one. Farage has been hinting he will soon revive the Brexit Party – because with only the Tories, UKIP and Laurence Fox’s Reclaim out there, the British people must be crying out for a right-wing grouping that hates […]

Boris Johnson’s administration is said to be wooing Joe Biden ahead of the US election, after reportedly becoming increasingly convinced that Donald Trump will not win. Downing Street are said to have been reviewing private polling which showed that Biden is on track to win by a landslide, leading to Johnson to increase communication with the […]

Wales’ first minister has hit back at Donald Trump after criticisms of his country over local lockdowns, saying he thinks Americans would be “delighted” to be more like Wales in tackling coronavirus. Fox News presenter Laura Ingraham tweeted “Your future under Biden: ‘Rolling lockdowns’ will become norm in Wales” along with a link to a BBC News article […]

Many years ago now, I was on a panel at a sceptics’ conference with, among other luminaries, professor Richard Dawkins (it’s on YouTube if you look for it). Towards the end of the discussion we were asked if there could be a version of ‘God’ which we could find easier to believe in than those […]

Dr Sean Conley, in one of his appearances outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – where Donald Trump received his treatment for coronavirus – put his best diplomatic foot forward. What was the president’s mental fitness? We should look at ‘the tweets’ as a gauge, he replied. So I did. “Don’t be afraid […]

There are now fewer than 30 days left until the USA goes to the polls to select its next president: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. That polling day will come just two weeks after Trump should stop self-isolating to protect those around him from catching the deadly illness his White House admitted he’d contracted late […]

As tighter lockdown looms, what does Donald Trump’s response to his coronavirus infection tell us about leadership in a crisis like this, his own and that of others stricken by illness at a crucial moment? How does it compare with Boris Johnson’s behaviour after he too succumbed as the pandemic took hold last spring? And […]

Boris Johnson will not be given a “warm” reception from the White House if Joe Biden wins the presidential election, according to Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. Lord Kim Darroch said there was still some “resentment and unhappiness” over comments Johnson made while mayor of London and in newspaper columns about the former US president. He also said Johnson would […]