‘Made You Look’ is a children’s game where a kid points to something that doesn’t exist just to get another kid to look in that direction. Then the perpetrator mocks the victim: “Made you look! Made you look!” One of the dumber games, but it usually works. Donald Trump is a master of this game. […]
When a bad man does a good thing, we should honour him for it even if his motives are selfish. Donald Trump is only trying to ‘bring peace to the Middle East’ because he wants the Nobel Prize, they say. He blusters and threatens and lies. He boasts about the seven wars he claims to
Last February, Donald Trump and his heir apparent JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, telling him that Ukraine had “no cards”. Zelensky should let Russia keep the conquered territories (about 20% of Ukraine) in return for peace. Just last month, on his way to a
A motley band of greedy fantasists got together at the White House a week ago (27 August) and came up with a cunning plan to bring peace to the Middle East while lining their own pockets at the same time. It was ‘leaked’ within days, as it was clearly meant to be, and since then
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