With the benefit of hindsight, Donald Trump pulling a full John Terry as Chelsea lifted the Club World Cup was almost poetic. After all, Chelsea is the Trump of European football – a nouveau riche arriviste with no continental pedigree, desperate to buy its way into aristocracy, and yet forever one dodgy deal away from […]
Depending upon who you ask, there are several movies that can lay claim to the title of greatest comic book film of all time. Some would bat for Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of an 18-movie project with the greatest team-up sequence ever, where Captain America finally says the words we had been waiting for him […]
A CNN analysis – an organisation that is equally berated by break-up bros Donald Trump and Elon Musk – summed up the current impasse, or Musk’s inability to dent Trump, with the line: “Politics isn’t rocket science. If it were, President Donald Trump might have something more to worry about in his reignited feud with […]
Most shows are defined by their endings. House MD saw the misanthrope Gregory House hang up his proverbial lab coat – the one he refused to wear – to go on a joyride with his cancer-stricken best buddy.Walter White killed the men who had swindled him out of his drug empire with a rigged machine […]
One of life’s crueler ironies is that legacies often hinge on a single moment. Take the Chamberlain family. Sir Austen Chamberlain won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Locarno Treaties—an ambitious attempt to prevent war between France and Germany. But thanks to his half-brother, Neville Chamberlain, the family name is now synonymous with diplomatic […]
London mayor Sadiq Khan said he’s delighted that Trump wants to visit London though he called him nasty. London mayor Sadiq Khan’s spokesperson said he was delighted that US President Donald Trump wants to visit London, though Trump called Khan a “nasty person”. At his Turnberry golf resort in South Ayrshire, Trump was asked if […]
US vice president JD Vance praised Donald Trump for securing a major trade agreement with the European Union, saying European media outlets are applauding the deal. “The entire European press is singing the president’s praises right now, amazed at the deal he negotiated on behalf of Americans,” Vance said wrote on Sunday (local time) on […]
Michael Wolff , Melania and Donald Trump (AP file photos) US president Donald Trump‘s longtime biographer Michael Wolff has reignited controversy by claiming that Jeffrey Epstein played a key role in introducing Melania Trump to her future husband. Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast, Wolff said Melania was “very involved” in Epstein’s social circle when […]
Trump, Golf foce one (AP, X images) During Donald Trump‘s visit to his Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, Scotland, on Saturday, an armoured golf cart nicknamed “Golf force one” was deployed for his security. The reinforced buggy followed him throughout the game. The buggy, believed to be a reinforced Polaris Ranger XP, appeared heavily […]
A key US House committee is investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, seeking access to files from President Donald Trump‘s Department of Justice and aiming to arrange a deposition with Epstein’s former associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, under Republican leadership, launched its inquiry just as House Speaker Mike Johnson, […]
