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 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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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
Continue ReadingStop the world – I want to get off
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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