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Founded on a lie: Trump’s debt to George Washington

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Tom Collins

As the world prepares itself to witness the inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President, we would do well to ponder the importance we place on truth in the modern age. Trump plays fast and loose with it.

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Trump’s hostile takeover of America succeeds

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Tom Collins

Trump successfully mobilised voters who previously did not function as a group. Older white males gravitated to him. With his leering and hubristic bar-room campaign, he became their standard bearer

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Obama lays Kennedy’s Cuban ghost to rest

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Tom Collins

John F Kennedy’s presidency was defined by Cuba, first in the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, then in the stand-off with Khrushchev in the Cuban missile crisis

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Stop the world – I want to get off

Posted on February 13, 2016 by Tom Collins

President Trump is still a nightmare rather than a reality. But his current ascendancy - alongside that of Sanders, Corbyn, the SNP in Scotland, and the leftist Potemos movement in Spain, among others - is a clear signal that…

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