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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Anatol Lieven |Stewart McDonald |Joseph Moreno
Pete Hegseth was the first cabinet nominee to the breach, leading Donald Trump’s collection of outsiders, populists and hellraisers into the Capitol Hill combat they can all expect to navigate in the coming weeks. And in terms of a first confrontation with the opponent, Hegseth handled his mission manfully — taking the slings and arrows from the Democratic side of the aisle with relative ease.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Stewart McDonald |Joseph Moreno |Justin Brierley
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, military veteran and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, had his first hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday. In his opening remarks, the author of The War on Warriors admitted that he is an unorthodox pick. “It is true that I don’t have a similar biography to defense secretaries of the last thirty years.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Stewart McDonald |Katja Hoyer |Joseph Moreno |Justin Brierley
Donald Trump doesn’t take office for another week, but the Trump show starts in earnest this week with a confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, followed shortly by Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Doug Burgum, Doug Collins and others. While some drama is to be expected, Trump’s current nominees have mostly run the gauntlet unscathed. Not all were so lucky, however.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Stewart McDonald |Katja Hoyer |Douglas Murray |Terry Barnes
As the second Trump term looms in the near distance, it’s become a bit of a cliché to say that “a stopped clock is right twice a day.” Pinko liberal Nats like myself have had to get used to the fact that for all our disagreements with the man on policy and style, there are certain areas where we fundamentally agree.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
spectator.co.uk | Stewart McDonald
As the second Trump term looms in the near distance, it’s become a bit of a cliché to say that ‘a stopped clock is right twice a day’. Pinko liberal Nats like myself have had to get used to the fact that for all our disagreements with the man on policy and style, there are certain areas where we fundamentally agree.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Stewart McDonald
As the second Trump term looms in the near distance, it’s become a bit of a cliché to say that ‘a stopped clock is right twice a day’. Pinko liberal Nats like myself have had to get used to the fact that for all our disagreements with the man on policy and style, there are certain areas where we fundamentally agree.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Stewart McDonald
Poor old Bruce Springsteen. The legendary rocker bet the farm on an endorsement of Kamala Harris and may well have alienated about half his audience as a result. The ‘Boss’ who had built his career on empathising with the hard-grafting, blue-collar, Bud-swilling ‘deplorables’ with his anthems of white working-class alienation, recorded a folksy recommendation from
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scotsman.com | Stewart McDonald
UN Secretary General António Guterres allowed himself to be used in a Kremlin PR stunt shortly after turning down an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to attend a global peace summit in Switzerland Speaking at the White House on April 25, 1945, US President Harry Truman said, in an address delivered by direct wire to the delegates of the founding United Nations conference in San Francisco, that “the world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral...
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Stewart McDonald
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
scotsman.com | Stewart McDonald
Alex Salmond was a better First Minister than he was a former First MinisterAlex Salmond put the SNP at the forefront of Scotland’s political landscape, but with his premature and sudden death, the independence project now enters the post-Salmond era. As he goes to rest, so too should the idea that the cause of independence should be so inexplicably linked to the fortunes of one or two individuals. This is a time for new ideas and new people.
