If news of this vaccine had come a fortnight earlier Trump might just have held on
And the Trump family revels in the news
Trump’s reluctance to concede could hinder his party in the Georgia Runoffs
We are all aware of the mighty election battle that takes place in Georgia on January 5th in the runoff elections that could determine whether the Republicans or the Democrats control the Senate. If the Republicans hold the seats then they retain a majority. If the Democratic party wins both seats then with the casting vote of the Vice President, Kamala Harris they will have control albeit by narrowest of margins. Yet as the Washington Post notes for the Republicans…
The Fall of The West
I sometimes wonder if Francis Fukuyama regrets his 1992 book ‘The End of History’, written in the heady aftermath of the Cold War. It is commonly believed to have argued that mankind’s ideological evolution had ended, and the universalisation of liberal democracy was its endpoint. In truth, this does him a disservice: he framed his original essay as a question, not a statement, and was careful to say that totalitarian “events” could still happen in future but democracy would become…
Donald Trump concedes, after a fashion
Update – Trump’s realised his faux pas, what was it David Cameron said about Twitter? TSE
Dropping the pilot
To listen to some Conservatives, you would have thought that Carrie Symonds had slain the wicked witch of the west with a click of her shoes. Excitable munchkin MPs are cavorting with joy at the sudden fall of Dominic Cummings. These MPs, who divide equally between cowardly lions, tin men without hearts and scarecrows with no brains, all now expect a return to true Conservative government (though they disagree about what this would mean in practice). Let us be clear. This is…
Team Trump tries to fight the result using the old “piles of paper” wheeze
As WH2020 sore loser Trump desperately seeks to carry on as President after the official inauguration on January 20th CNN has produced the above sequence on how Trump and his team use the “piles of paper” ruse to get out of tricky PR situations. Currently the President’s team is trying to defuse the argument that their claims of voter fraud are baseless by appearing in TV interview carrying a heap of of documents and files that they say support their…
Cummings going opens up a little UK-EU trade window. But only a little one
The odds should still remain on No Deal Coincidence? Maybe. Dominic Cummings’ departure from Downing Street has been a long time coming. Ever since that fateful dash to County Durham during the first lockdown was revealed to the media, he’s been a man living on borrowed time. But then he always was. Cummings claimed in a blog at the start of the year that he wished to make himself largely redundant to Number 10 by the end of the year….