Politics

2024-11-10

We will fight Trump’s plans to slap tariffs on the UK – Rachel Reeves: There’s going to be some ‘interesting’ decisions to be made, but I’m glad if our politicians aren’t necessarily going to roll over and take whatever crumbs we’re given.

2024-11-08

Exit polls from the 2024 presidential election: Some cross-tabs to distract us bewildered data addicts.

If I were a cautious, centre-left prime minister, Trump’s victory would have me worried: Are there more local lessons to learn from Harris' defeat?

2024-11-07: Daring Fireball collects the sycophantic well-done-Trump tweets sent by all those big tech CEOs …

2024-11-07: Various breakdowns of voter support for Harris vs Trump from the BBC, in an effort to understand …

2024-11-07

US election 2024 results and exit poll in maps and charts: More exit poll analysis from the BBC.

The voters who tipped the balance for Trump: The BBC looks at exit polls to try and determine who voted which way and why.

Exit polls 2024: Deep economic discontent with Biden drove voters to Trump: Early exit poll suggests the state of a) democracy and b) the economy were top of mind for voters in the US election.

The return of President Trump: a bleak day for the US and the world: ‘An already treacherous world is becoming more so.’

2024-11-07: Trump won. By more than expected. How did it happen? Sometimes fear triumphs over hope. … …

2024-11-05: Handy guide as to whether it’s safe to go to bed from The Guardian.

2024-11-05: Some publications aren't afraid to endorse Harris, and do better for it

2024-11-04

What does Jeff Bezos' non-endorsement mean?: Max notes that historically it’s been the owners of newspapers that did want to endorse candidates and the reporters that don’t.

2024-11-03

The Washington Post sold Democracy. Now it needs a new line of business. : The WaPo and the LA Times lost a lot of subscribers when their owners refused to let them endorse a presidential candidate.

2024-11-03: Cowardly tech billionaires further ruin their newspapers by letting Trump intimidate them into censoring the Opinions out of their Opinions section

2024-11-03: Admittedly this isn’t the most pressing issue of the forthcoming US presidential election, but …

2024-11-02: Tampering with the polls for the US election

2024-11-02

Republicans preparing to reject result if Trump loses, warn strategists: A lack of respect for democracy should be reason enough to ensure he doesn’t get anywhere close to power.

2024-11-01

Reeves’s £40bn tax rises will boost growth ‘sustainably’, says IMF: The IMF supports Labour’s new budget, which means it’s probably nowhere near radical enough for my tastes.

2024-10-31

Budget 2024: key points at a glance: Bullet-point summary of this government’s first budget; at first sight feels to me like the right direction

Jeff Bezos’ view from nowhere: Bezo’s insistence that the WaPo doesn’t endorse a candidate comes, at best, from a dated and incorrect view about the role of journalism.

The billionaires hedge their bets: Purely out of immoral and misguided self-interest, many of the tech billionaires are cosying up to Trump.

2024-10-30

Why I Am (Still) a Liberal (For Now): ‘Thin’ vs ‘thick’ liberalism, and the Cruelty Culture of 2022-era Twitter.

2024-10-29

Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating: Doesn’t bode well for next week’s US election.

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration: Gone are the days when the craziest of the American political right, Russell Vought in this case, felt the need to keep their most abhorrent views hidden.