Wooing a President

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Zelensky has led Ukraine with bravery and skill. But he should also now reflect on the advice of another statesman who needed United Staes support in a time of great peril for his country. Winston Churchill said: “No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt”.
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Memory lane…

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Washington: February 9, 2024 The special counsel investigating how Joe Biden retained classified documents said that Biden couldn’t remember key dates of his time in the Obama White House. But it seems we don’t forget trauma! If only we couldn’t remember Trump’s time in the White House.
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Experts?

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Davos, Switzerland: 21 January 2024 The New York Times is reporting that the business titans at the World Economic Forum are privately predicting a Trump win in November. In fact there is a “consensus”. But they don’t want to say anything publicly. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/business/dealbook/davos-trump-biden-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare This bashfulness to going on the public record about the voting intentions of Americans that CEOs only speak to on the reception at private jet terminals is probably prudent. Better to focus on areas where a CEO’s…
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My Favourite Martian…

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Washington July 13, 2023 Mitch McConnell and other leading Republicans have a spring in their step. Despite the summer heat. Rumours of a McConnell smile were doing the rounds. The wellspring of this holiday joy is polls showing that 20% of Democrats prefer Robert F Kennedy Jr over Joe Biden. Republican leaders believe that if a large rump of the college educated liberal elite prefer a vaccine sceptic who argues that chemicals cause gender dysphoria over Joe Biden, then Donald…
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Rule of Lawyers

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West Palm Beach, New York, Monday April 3, 2023 There has been speculation as to why Donald Trump needed a seven car motorcade of black SUVs with tinted windows to go to and from airports on his way to New York. How could a person without a day job, working from home and playing golf every day, need such a retinue? A Trump spokesman, speaking on background as he didn’t actually know what was going on, denied that the cars…
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Look behind the cushions….

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Washington: January 15, 2023 At an age when remembering where you left the keys to your Corvette is an achievement, the discovery by Biden of Top Secret memos from 2016 has given new hope that items lost by earlier Presidents may still be found. Unfortunately, real progress has been slow. A spokesman for George W Bush said that there was still no sign of any Weapons of Mass Destruction. And the Obama Library confirmed that the Red Line was still…
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It’s crickets

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Washington, Sydney and Mumbai: January 3, 2023 The first international game of cricket was played between the United States and Canada in 1844. After 180 years, there is now optimism that the United States is ready to rejoin international test cricket. According to the International Cricket Council, the traditional view was that Americans were unwilling to follow a 5 day event of interminable tedium with only a low chance of a result. However, the breathless media coverage of repeated counts…
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What can be….

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Washington and London: There was a frisson of excitement in Washington and London as events in Beijing showed the past does not have to be the future. Ron DeSantis saw a Republican debate in a mid-western state university as Donald J Trump was helped from the stage by Federal agents. And Rishi Sunak saw debt collectors from “Wine and Spirits” (free delivery to Westminster) helping Boris Johnson away from another No 10 farewell drinks. But alas “The future depends on…
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On the carpet….

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Oscar Wilde’s last words were reportedly “This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.” It would be a win for a robust democracy and tasteful home decorating if both Trump and his carpet are never seen again.
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