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“Impeach Trump,” they cried. “Impeach him!” “Why, what evil has he done?”

January 15, 2021
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Donald Trump has become the first President in US history to be impeached twice. He exhorted his supporters to "march on the Capitol" and to "fight like hell", and this has been deemed to have been "incitement of insurrection" against…

Capitol invasion: it wasn’t Trump supporters who first chanted ‘Not my President’

January 7, 2021
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The scenes at the US Capitol should distress any supporter of democracy, and have rightly attracted condemnation across the globe. That people have died in the chaos adds to the…

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Concession and transition or voter fraud and prosecution? If only Alistair Cooke were alive today

November 10, 2020
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Earlier this year, locked down in France, I wrote about my pleasure at discovering an important treasure trove from my childhood and adolescence. The BBC has used the wonders of…

US Presidential Election: chaos, confusion, litigation and… whatever

November 6, 2020
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The Trump Presidency has been like no other, and as we observe the agony of the election count it is entirely in keeping with the last four years. It feels…

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US Presidential Election: the biggest loser (so far) is the credibility of the chattering classes

November 4, 2020
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It has been a long night for those of us who regard ourselves as 'political junkies' with a penchant for following US presidential elections. Some months ago I issued a…

Twitter censorship of the Biden scandal merits questions in Parliament

October 16, 2020
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There is something rather sinister going on at Twitter. Readers will recall the daily news being full of serious allegations of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign in order to…

Guardian ‘reveals’ Amy Coney Barrett is Roman Catholic (and takes her faith seriously)

October 2, 2020
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The Guardian has revealed that Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, is Roman Catholic. Quite why they have only just cottoned on to this is something…

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Trump should bring forward his Supreme Court Justice nominee without delay

September 21, 2020
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The death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a significant event on a number of levels. It is, of course, a personal sadness for her family and…

BBC U-turn: ‘Rule, Britannia!’ will be sung on the Last Night of the Proms

September 3, 2020
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Stories are an important part of being human. If you spend time with a person you have never met before, the chances are you will soon begin to exchange stories…

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Why does the BBC believe Bishop Michael Curry channels the soul of America?

July 30, 2020
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In the UK we don’t often get the chance to hear quality broadcasting from many years ago, but on 1st August the BBC will be broadcasting a programme about the…

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Trump “turns holy ground into a battle ground”

June 2, 2020
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He knows his base. He knows what they want, and he knows how to give it. This picture of President Trump holding up a Bible in front of a church…

A nation unites to pray for Boris Johnson (well, almost)

April 7, 2020
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been stricken with coronavirus and now lies in intensive care in St Thomas' Hospital, London. He is manifestly quite frail and on oxygen support. Ostensibly,…

Trump shames America by betraying the Kurds

October 15, 2019
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The Kurds have no friends but the mountains. They helped us to defeat the ISIS/Daesh death cult, but now they are being cleansed from their ancient homeland by Turkey, where…

Lawfare — politics is now waged through the Courts

September 25, 2019
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There is one enduring feature of all functional democracies – that of balance. Over-mighty monarchs, barons, presidents or workers' councils do not make for happy societies. If the definition of…

Sovereignty: why is it good for Kashmir and Hong Kong, but bad for the UK?

August 12, 2019
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News from Hong Kong and Kashmir has continued to dominate the news, and then the Labour Shadow Chancellor and Deputy Leader John McDonnell sowed a degree of discontent in the…

Abortion banned in Alabama: a pro-choice/pro-life dialogue

May 19, 2019
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This is a guest post by Neil Richardson, a church community worker in Croydon, teacher of Latin, and author of Courting Disaster. He is a passionate advocate for the rights…

The weird cult of Greta Thunberg: she’s not the Green Messiah

April 24, 2019
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The activities of those following the latest fashion in political activism have been disrupting the nation’s capital, and yesterday its unlikely spokesperson and poster child, Greta Thunberg, went to Westminster…

Before peace, reconciliation and healing, there must come reckoning

March 31, 2019
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Donald Trump is not a modest man. He is not polished, well read, stylish, university educated, 'sophisticated', or a paragon of moral virtue. But he is the duly elected President…

Bishop denounces Boris Johnson as an “amoral liar”

January 9, 2019
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It was a good lecture by the Bishop of Leeds, if a little long. Delivered to mark the centennial celebrations of Bradford Cathedral, he expounded some of the root causes…

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Amidst all the buffoonery, Trump is right to reject the Palestinian definition of ‘refugee’

November 7, 2018
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I never expected much good to originate from the election of the Buffoon. Sure, the fact that Hillary Clinton will from time unto eternity be remembered as 'she who enabled…