Jeremy Lott

Boris called me a terrorist but I’d still probably vote for him

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My infinitesimally small claim to fame in the UK’s upcoming elections is that the prime minister once called me McVeigh, as in ‘Timothy McVeigh.’ The year was 2001. I was a college student looking to pay the bills with punditry dollars and pounds. Boris Johnson was a sitting Member of Parliament for Henley and the

After Super Tuesday, Donald Trump now has his eyes on the prize

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Donald Trump said in his Super Tuesday victory remarks that he had watched Hillary Clinton’s speech before coming on. He confessed that he didn’t quite get it. “Making America great again,” his campaign slogan, is going to be much better than ‘making America whole again,'” whatever that is, he said. He had some kind words

Can Marco Rubio go the distance?

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz is running scared. The other week, he apologised to Dr. Ben Carson but refused Carson’s pleas that he discipline his staff for suggesting to Iowa caucus-goers that the neurosurgeon had dropped out of the running for president. On Monday, Cruz fired communications director Rick Tyler for distributing a video with bad