“False and dangerous.” “Deeply concerning.” “A neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath.” Many of Europe’s leaders may have been regretting their previous criticisms of Donald Trump. From Donald Tusk to David Lammy, the bloc’s liberals rushed to offer their stiff congratulations to the newly …
Prepare for the Bitcoin presidency
In July, I sat at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville and watched Donald J. Trump live and in person for the first time. I have never been a great Trump fan, but the experience was electrifying. Love him or hate …
How Trump crushed Obama’s legacy
It was long past midnight in Livingston, Montana, when Donald Trump finally stood up to address the nation as President-elect of the United States, having won the landslide victory that had eluded him in his successful run in 2016 and …
Why the Scots love Trump
Irvine Welsh thinks the man is a fascist; Brian Cox says he is a monster; Gordon Brown thinks he will destroy democracy. But among those many famous Scottish voices fulminating about Donald Trump, spare a thought for someone you have …
The Democrats got stuck in the Seventies
There’s a very good chance that you remember nothing at all of the Democratic 2020 primary cycle, maybe Bernie Sanders’ uncombable hair, maybe Elizabeth Warren mouthing some policy proposal that sounded smart even if no one understood it, maybe the …
How Trump could liberate Europe
The EU’s worst nightmare has come true: Donald Trump is returning to the White House. It’s not hard to imagine the panic that many leaders must feeling as they gather this morning in Budapest for the European Political Community summit. …
MAGA must be reborn
“This is a movement like no one’s seen before… the greatest political movement of all time… the most incredible political thing…” Donald Trump didn’t hold back in his victory speech. And though he is known for his rhetorical exaggerations, it …
What Donald shares with de Gaulle
A perceptive journalist once said that Donald Trump should be taken “seriously but not literally”. The same could have been said about Charles de Gaulle. On the opening page of his memoirs, he wrote that his “certain idea of France” …
Welcome back to Trumpland
“He watched the play with great intensity,” wrote Cormac McCarthy in All the Pretty Horses. “He’d the notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but …
The US Constitution is anti-democratic
However Americans just voted, they can be in absolutely no doubt that the 2024 election was the most important ever. That, after all, is what both candidates have ceaselessly been telling them. For Kamala Harris, this is “one of the …
JD Vance: prince of the MAGA movement
The nomination of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate has already proved controversial. With Trump leading in the polls, it means the 39-year-old is likely to become the next vice president of the United States. Perhaps more importantly, it …
Will soccer moms win it for Kamala?
Journalists have now spent nearly a decade haunting the farms and taverns of rural America, trying to understand why millions of decent heartlanders voted for Trump. It’s a romantic story, casting the underdogs against elites, and explaining how America’s forgotten …
Only the Republicans can stop Jew hatred
Given some basic wisdom, directing for the stage is rather simple. The wisdom is that: “The audience don’t care.” They don’t care where the characters “went to school”, or what memory the actor is dredging up to influence his performance; …
The English Uprising
The English have had enough. Watch on Youtube HERE.
Source: BJØRN ANDREAS BULL-HANSEN Read the original article here: https://bull-hansen.com …
Kemi Badenoch’s New Toryism
There is something strikingly different about Kemi Badenoch, the newly anointed Conservative Party leader. For a while I thought it might be that she is peculiarly old fashioned — a throwback to an age before the end of history and …