An estimated 250,000 people hit the streets of London yesterday to protest President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom.
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‘Do I seem like the sort of guy who needs the service of prostitutes?’ Trump, Russia and the FBI laid bare in James Comey’s memoir ‘A Higher Loyalty’
Insecurity, sex, anger, and leadership make for riveting reading in James Comey’s ‘A Higher Loyalty’. Comey’s account of Trump’s White House has usurped Michael Wolf’s Fire and Fury as the authoritative account of what Trump does behind closed doors.
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‘Siblings’ world premiere: A tale of Mexico and America from below
Siblings is a film of two halves, two stories which play out on different sides of the Mexican-American border. It is about love and abandonment, illegal immigration and populism, and three real people whose voices we seldom hear in the age of Trump and his ‘beautiful wall’.
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Trump and Climate Change
On 9th November 2016, the inevitable happened – Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States, despite the sexism, the outrageous display of racism, and the lack of any political experience whatsoever. Even though Hillary Clinton had a higher popular vote than Trump (48.2% compared to 46.5%), he still managed to…
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A British Liberal’s Attempt at Understanding Populism
By Julius L. Geertz Americans who voted Trump did not believe the rhetoric – apparently. Since the election, British commentators and politicians of various ideological hues have argued that these individuals actually voted in a rational, yet undeniably angry, manner in their own economic interest. Ohioans and Pennsylvanians, in mourning for the collapse of heavy…
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