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Bin the lectures, bring gossip and be ready to banter: how the new PM should prepare for his Trump encounter
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
Bin the lectures, bring gossip and be ready to banter: how the new PM should prepare for his Trump encounter
Back in January 2017, I accompanied Theresa May to the White House to meet Donald Trump. She was the first foreign leader through the door after his surprise election victory.
Europe must stop pulling its punches on Trump
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
Europe must stop pulling its punches on Trump
Foreign stuff often happens over Christmas.
The United States is not the ally it once was
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
The United States is not the ally it once was
All aboard! The Donald Trump juggernaut has hit the road, engine revving, streamers flying, and vast clouds of hot air emitting from its exhausts. A hundred Joe Biden policies have already been crushed beneath its wheels.
Biden must go
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
Biden must go
There was a rare synchronicity in British and American politics two weeks ago: almost simultaneous election debates on both sides of the Atlantic. The two debates were a stark illustration of two very different political cultures.
The Trump trial has been vaudeville but its outcome could yet decide the US election
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
The Trump trial has been vaudeville but its outcome could yet decide the US election
The last few weeks have seen the revival of a dying art form: the courtroom sketch. In America, every state makes its own courtroom rules; so, back in the 1990s, live TV coverage of the California-based OJ Simpson trial gripped the American nation.
Biden and Trump: the enfeebled versus the unhinged?
Foreign affairs
By Lord Darroch
Biden and Trump: the enfeebled versus the unhinged?
Two political bombs have exploded in the United States. On 5 February the special counsel Robert Hur, investigating the cache of classified government documents in Joe Biden’s house, released his report.