Getting to grips with post-truth politics | Letters
While the internet and social media can lead to the rapid spread of falsehoods and dubious claims, they can also be used to check quickly such claims and expose lies (Trump and Brexit herald a brave...
View ArticleArrest Madonna for 'blow up the White House' remark, says Newt Gingrich
Republican says pop star is part of ‘an emerging leftwing fascism’ after her comments at Women’s MarchThe former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich has said Madonna “ought to be arrested” for...
View ArticleSome of Trump’s advisers want a new civil war – we must not let them have it...
Both Steve Bannon and Newt Gingrich engage in dangerous fantasies about US history – and come to chilling conclusions about the futureA controversial and divisive US president is elected. State...
View Article‘Jury still out’ on Callista Gingrich pick as US ambassador to the Holy See
Nomination, announced days before Trump meets Pope Francis in Rome, marks the promotion of the wife of one of the president’s most vociferous defendersDonald Trump announced on Friday his intent to...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich repeats Seth Rich conspiracy theory in Fox appearance
Trump confidante and husband of ambassadorial nominee repeats WikiLeaks theory denounced as ‘fake news’ by family of murdered DNC stafferA prominent ally of Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that the...
View ArticleUnderstanding Trump: what can we learn from Newt Gingrich's new book?
The latest offering from the former House speaker parses the rise of the president, but ultimately says more about author than subjectWhen Kellyanne Conway used the term “alternative facts” in an...
View ArticleThe Red and the Blue review: Clinton, Gingrich and America's deep divide
Steve Kornacki’s primer on politics in the 1990s offers compelling argument about the rise of TrumpA long-established internet meme points both seriously and frivolously to behaviors, events,...
View ArticleWhat Democrats can learn from Newt Gingrich, the man who broke politics
Gingrich’s performance before and the year after his ascent to speaker of the House offers two vital lessons – one salutary, and the other cautionaryNearly a month after 2018’s nominal election day,...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich resists irrelevance with new novel ripped from headlines
The politician (and ex-professor, podcaster and Trump interpreter), says the release of Collusion, featuring a resurgent Russian menace, is ‘totally coincidental’ Newt Gingrich really wanted to talk...
View ArticleTrump claims Boris Johnson popular in UK because he's seen as 'Britain's...
The day’s political developments as they happen, including Tory leadership and Theresa May’s final cabinet meeting as PMBoris Johnson elected new Tory leaderTory leadership election: the full...
View ArticleHuawei decision 'like allowing KGB to build UK phone network' in cold war,...
Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happenBoris Johnson gives green light for Huawei 5G infrastructure roleJohnson’s Huawei decision ‘major defeat’ for US, says Newt...
View ArticleTrump cites Sunday Express article in support of false electoral fraud claims
Polls run by UK tabloid and Washington-based thinktank found an audience with Trump supporters in the USDonald Trump is relying on an unlikely media outlet to back his claim that he is the legitimate...
View ArticleHow senior Republicans have reacted to Trump's refusal to concede election –...
Along with the president himself, the vast majority of Republican politicians have refused to accept Trump's election loss. The former president George W Bush was among a handful of Republicans who...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich: Democrats are trying to 'brainwash the entire next generation'
The 77-year-old Republican former House speaker says Trump will ‘remain a dominant figure for a fairly long period of time’Some blame Donald Trump. Others blame social media. And those with longer...
View ArticleTrump and his enablers unwittingly offer Democrats the best hope in the...
The former president and his allies may doom the Republicans by reminding the public of their attempted coupThe midterm elections are just over nine months away. What will Democrats run on? What will...
View ArticleNewt and the Never Trumpers: Gingrich, Tim Miller and the fate of the...
In two new books, a partisan warrior and a repentant operative paint an alarming portrait of a party gone rogueIn 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, a Republican party led by Newt Gingrich...
View ArticleHouse select panel asks Newt Gingrich to testify in effort to overturn election
The former Republican House speaker is believed to have repeatedly contacted White House aides about fake electorsThe House January 6 select committee on Thursday asked the former Republican House...
View ArticleThe Destructionists review: brilliant study of Republican rage pre-Trump
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post does not fall victim to false equivalency. He knows the GOP is a threat to democracyAfter Joe Biden’s fiery speech in defense of democracy last week, most of the...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich warns Republicans that Joe Biden is winning the fight
Former speaker who led charge against Bill Clinton raises eyebrows with column heralding Democrat’s first-term successRepublicans must “quit underestimating” Joe Biden, the former US House speaker Newt...
View ArticleGingrich decries ‘insane’ Florida bill for register of bloggers critical of...
Bill before Florida legislature to make online critics of governor register is ‘an embarrassment’ says former House speakerA Florida bill that would require bloggers who write about the state’s...
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