Last week, Jenna Ellis – the senior legal advisor to Trump’s 2020 Presidential campaign – tweeted that “Kamala [Harris] sounds like Marge Simpson.” A couple of days later, the creators of The Simpsons themselves decided to draw attention to this, by
For years now in our political discourse, a generational conflict has been raging. Typically, the lines of this conflict have been drawn as follows: ageing, moneyed Boomers – beneficiaries both of the post-war welfare state growing up, and the...
Earlier this week, a twitter account ostensibly belonging to a British writer named R.S. Archer, the author of the ‘David Saunders’ series of books, married to a French woman and living in the Dordogne, began posting about a British couple he knows...
The US is in meltdown – the world’s richest and most powerful nation could well be experiencing a crisis of legitimacy analogous to the one which precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.
When it comes to coronavirus, there are two big conspiracy theories. The first – which is beginning to cross over from the realms of conspiracy to become official US policy, endorsed by Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo – is that COVID-19 originated in a...
If there’s one thing that everybody knows about the internet, it’s that it’s full of lies. This much has been understood for such a long time that, even as far back as 1993, a New Yorker cartoon could use it as a punchline. While we’ve grown used to...