The Washington Post is reporting that federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have sought a wide range of Trump documents related to fundraising after the 2020 election,. They are seeking to determine if Trump or his advisers scammed donors by using false claims. about voter fraud to raise money, This comes on top of the criminal charges he is facing in New York and as well as likely action in the state of Georgia….
If this polling has it right then just a quarter of American adults now a favourable view of Donald Trump and this really puts into question whether he has any chance at all of making a comeback. The images that have been widely circulated of his court appearance before Easter have been dreadful and even large parts of his base are struggling to go on backing their man. Yet WH2024 betting punters appear not to have noticed and he’s still…
Criminal justice, especially for sexual offences against women and girls, is much in the news lately. See Labour’s ad accusing the Prime Minister of being soft on child abusers, remarkable since Sunak has been PM less than 6 months, not enough time for a sex abuse case to be investigated let alone go to trial. Not to be outdone, during his election campaign, Scotland’s new First Minister, promised to uphold women’s rights. He showed how much he meant it by…
Several of the papers this morning lead off on a strike by junior doctors – something that takes us into uncharted territory. Quite where this is going is hard to say and my sense is that the doctors will have a fair bit of public support the fall back on. Whatever as the Guardian points out we are getting a closer to the general election and we are only a few weeks away from the May local elections which could…
The polling that should worry the ex-President It won’t be long before WH2024 starts in earnest and the big question is whether it will be between 78 year old Trump and 81 year old Biden. These are the ages the two men will be on election day They are both strong betting favourites to be their party’s nominees though I have serious doubts about them and the above polling is hardly going to help Trump who is facing criminal charges…
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross has been wrapped on the knuckles by the party’s London bosses for suggesting that voters north of the border should tactically vote Labour in certain seats in order to keep the SNP out. He’s been forced to withdraw comments following the intervention of the national party. Ross is right here and the Sunak leadership is wrong and have shown that they simply don’t understand Scottish politics. For ever since the huge rise…
As a callow and innocent teenager I will alway remember April the 9th 1992 with a lot of fondness for it was the first general election I followed with a keen interest and actually stayed up all night to see the results come in. As a normal thirteen year old at the time I was very interested in politics, the (in)famous Sheffield rally took place in my home city, so you couldn’t avoid politics during the campaign if you lived…