How important is Christopher Steele’s libel win against the owners of a Russian bank?
It is a well-known tactic of oligarchs to use the courts to try to silence critics
World
Tuesday
Why ‘we’ got Turkey wrong (and China. And Russia. And Iraq)
Another foreign policy item bites the dust
Monday
What if the dreaded ‘pee tape’ is real?
A small-town Colorado newspaper may have stumbled on news of Trump’s kompromat.
Monday
How blockchain can beat state censorship
Information which might otherwise have been lost in the ether now lives on in an all-but indestructible form.
Thursday
Why America’s détente with Putin makes Belarus nervous
‘If we don’t survive these years, if we will fail, it means we will have to become part of some other state, or they will simply wipe their feet on us.’
Wednesday
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Tuesday
‘Has mom been tested for STDs?’ The Manaforts’ home life and why it matters
Hacked text messages containing several damaging stories about the former campaign manager can now be viewed by anyone with an internet connection
Thursday
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Sydney For decades, Australia has been known as ‘the lucky country’. At the end of the world geographically, we are separated from the global troublespots by vast oceans. We have recorded 27 years of uninterrupted growth, partly because of a surge in exports of commodities to China. At the same time, our tough border protection policies boost public confidence in, as John Howard put it, ‘who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come’. As a result, our politics have not been profoundly affected by the kind of populist forces dismantling established parties across Europe. Nor have we witnessed an anti-globalisation backlash. Not for us any Trump-
Wednesday
How significant are Trump’s trade talks with the EU?
The President is declaring victory on the European front of his incipient trade war.
Trump betrays the elite sense that the US is always pure and democracy-loving
Welcome to American post-exceptionalism .
Monday
How NATO became the most sacred cow in the barn
Before Trump’s visit the Senate approved by a near-Soviet margin of 97-2 a resolution expressing ‘ironclad’ support for NATO.
Saturday
Sheriff David Clarke’s Russian connection
What connects Moscow, gun rights, and the Vice President? Cockburn has the answer…
Wednesday
Steve Bannon: ‘We have to end the Cold War with Russia’
The former White House strategist thinks China poses a much greater threat.
Two out of three ain’t bad: Jetlagged Trump’s European roadshow, reviewed
Is the likeliest explanation of Trump’s U-turn really that he’s a Russian agent?
Trump’s fawning performance in Helsinki has only lent credence to the worst theories about him
The legacy of his presidency may be to fortify suspicions of Moscow and his chum Putin.
Tuesday
Donald Trump’s fight is against globalisation and the left – not Vladimir Putin
History somehow isn’t moving toward its predetermined end, and this has driven Western liberals completely mad. The theatrical overreaction to Donald Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki is just the latest proof. Before the Trump-Putin summit, pundits warned that Trump might recognise Crimea as Russian territory. He did nothing of the sort. … Read more
Monday
After flirting with Putin, is Trump putting ‘America first’?
The Helsinki summit, which was intended to smooth relations with Moscow, is having the reverse effect.
Friday
What’s the purpose of Trump’s forthcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin?
A diligent press corps is trying to force him to say what he will do or say when he meets his Russian chum. But Trump himself may not really know.
Admit it, Trump is right about Sadiq Khan
I’m sorry to say this, but Donald Trump really doesn’t think much about Britain at all. He may have some sentimental attachment to Scotland, because of his mother, but we’re not nearly as precious to him as the British like to think. He may be blowing British minds today with his explosive Sun interview, but he’ll just shrug it off, go play golf, and then meet Putin. But what Trump does have is an unthinking genius for sniffing out weakness, and he’s unthinkingly sniffed it out in Sadiq Khan. “I think allowing millions and millions of people to come into Europe is very, very sad. I look at cities in
Donald Trump is a news god – but his memory is patchy
One of the myths about Donald Trump is that he’s wildly unpredictable. In media terms, he’s an absolute banker: everywhere he goes, every time he opens his mouth or picks up his smartphone, he gives the press what we want. Take his glorious interview with the Sun this morning. It was timed to perfection. The great news value is not that we are surprised by what Trump thinks — we probably all could have guessed that Trump wouldn’t love a soft Brexit; that he would say you need Brexit to be as hard and sordid as possible — but that Trump just says it. He says what every reporter wants