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From the moment he launched his campaign for president, Donald Trump compared the barrier he wanted to build along the United States southern border to China’s Great Wall. With the US Government now shuttered by the stand-off over funding Trump’s wal...

With thousands of American federal workers left without paycheques, as Donald Trump carried out his threat to shut down the United States Government for not being given $5 billion to build a wall along the Mexican border, much of America is in a stat...

The “special relationship” was not supposed to look like this. On both sides of the pond, governments are wracked by chaos and paralysis. In Washington, an attempt by President Donald Trump to get funding for his border wall has triggered the longes...

Former vice-president Joe Biden, according to news reports, is strongly leaning towards a presidential run. You can understand why a popular former VP and senator with decades of experience and 100 per cent name ID would want to run for president, es...

The Rivers family of Harlem and the Robinson family of Chicago are so much alike. Both are close-knit, two-parent foundations of African-American strength. They are hard-working and proud, and they deal with life’s adversities with dignity, grace and...

With the fireworks and glitter now behind us, a part of moving from one year to the next, thoughts turn to a disturbing reality that something is happening to America where it pertains to the leadership of a nation billed as the most powerful on the ...

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will be leaving Congress soon, surely to glide into a Wall Street sinecure where his extraordinary service to America’s overclass can be properly rewarded. But before he goes, Ryan has some legacy-polishing to do. Ryan’...

Sir John Swan flew to Washington yesterday for the funeral of former United States president George H.W. Bush. Sir John, a former premier, knew Mr Bush at first through political contacts, but the two also became friends. The island’s elder statesman...

On Thanksgiving Day, Donald Trump held a video press conference from his resort in Florida. Unsurprisingly, he was asked why he continues to stand up for Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, even though the Central Intelligence Agency bel...

Jamal Khashoggi was a complex man, but to us, his daughters, he was simply “Dad”. Our family has always been proud of his work, and we understood the awe and grandeur with which some people viewed him. But in our lives he was just “Baba” — a loving m...

We are now more than two weeks into a new sanctions regime on Iran, and it will be a long time before it ends. The Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has listed 12 conditions that Iran needs to meet before that happens. They include a permanent cessati...

I have been in London this week to talk about what the midterms mean for the Trump Administration, and while I’m on this side of the Atlantic it seems appropriate to revisit Brexit. The last time I wrote about it was 18 months ago, when British Prim...