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Donald Trump is an authoritarian menace who has played to and preyed upon the United States’ worst, most hateful and paranoid instincts, in a farcical yet nonetheless dangerous effort to establish an autocratic state with him as the cult-style Dear Leader.  Predictably enough, he has spent the last seven weeks …

Compare and contrast. On the issue of whether Britain should leave the EU we’ve had: A national referendum. Four years of debates in Parliament on how/when/under what conditions we should leave. In fact, for the period May 2016 until March 2020, it seemed MPs were talking about nothing else. No …

Boris Johnson’s announcement that the United Kingdom would be undertaking the biggest increase in defence spending in over 30 years has come as a major surprise.  Pledging what is likely to amount to an additional £16.5 billion over the next four years to the military, the prime minister vowed to …

Trump began Monday morning by tweeting “I WON THE ELECTION,” before calling the ongoing recount in Georgia “fake” – a complaint leveled in recent days by the president and his supporters, due to the fact signatures on ballots aren’t being checked against voter rolls. He then called on his followers …

At the planned ‘law and order’ protest, Trump briefly delivered updates on his health following his three-night hospital stay before quickly moving into his usual political rhythms, referring to Covid-19 as the “China virus” and slamming opponents Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. “Sleepy Joe Biden has betrayed black and Latino Americans,” Trump …

‘It’s not really about public health or a virus. They have another agenda.’ That’s what the so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been saying since March, when the first British lockdowns were imposed and our lives were turned upside down.  Those ‘conspiracy theorists’ were denounced, as always, as ‘cranks’ and ‘flat-Earthers’ but …

“He still does not seem to understand the seriousness of a highly contagious and deadly disease,” CNN’s Maeve Reston wrote, calling the incident a “photo op.” She went on to call the White House’s handling of Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis and subsequent treatment “a textbook example of how not to handle …

The Tver court of Moscow refused to declassify the names of the 11 prosecutors from the reign of Joseph Stalin in force at the time of the Great terror in the composition of the Troika of the NKVD. This was reported by “Kommersant”. This decision was taken after consideration of …

Life goes on, generation change, and the memory of the people is weakening. Current schoolchildren from the smartphone, get off, take an interest in his knowledge of our glorious history, so he also that Putin won in the 1st world war of Napoleon, and during the 2nd world war — …

In Bashkiria killed 100-year-old veteran of the great Patriotic war Ivan Nesmeyanov. This is stated in the message of regional Department of the TFR. A criminal case under the item “in” parts 4 articles 162 of the criminal code (“Robbery), paragraph “h” of part 2 of article 105 of the …