Joe Biden carried off his first press conference with his customary dynamism on Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t a real press conference, but it was a revealing piece of reality television. Biden campaigned as a return to normality. But this episode from a slo-mo Truman Show is anything but. The number of questioners was restricted, ostensibly due to Covid-19 regulations. The questions were known in advance: on Thursday morning, Americans with nothing better to do could read in newspapers and on websites which journalist was going to ask what question.Biden knew what was coming. He even...…Joe Biden carried off his first press conference with his customary dynamism on Thursday afternoon. It wasn’t a real press conference, but it was a revealing piece of reality television. Biden campaigned as a return to normality. But this episode from a slo-mo Truman Show is anything but. The number of questioners was restricted, ostensibly due to Covid-19 regulations. The questions were known in advance: on Thursday morning, Americans with nothing better to do could read in newspapers and on websites which journalist was going to ask what question.Biden knew what was coming. He even...WW…

Joe Biden’s decline has become so painful to see and so embarrassing to watch that it feels cruel to mention it. But it’s even more cruel that Biden’s team act as if it’s not happening, and most of America’s media look the other way. , Biden marked the first anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns and his fiftieth day in the White House by giving the first televised address of his presidency. He hadn’t been seen in public for three days, which is what he seems to require if he’s not to unravel before the cameras.From the moment he wheezed up to the lectern and peered into the camera, you...…Joe Biden’s decline has become so painful to see and so embarrassing to watch that it feels cruel to mention it. But it’s even more cruel that Biden’s team act as if it’s not happening, and most of America’s media look the other way. , Biden marked the first anniversary of the Covid-19 shutdowns and his fiftieth day in the White House by giving the first televised address of his presidency. He hadn’t been seen in public for three days, which is what he seems to require if he’s not to unravel before the cameras.From the moment he wheezed up to the lectern and peered into the camera, you...WW…

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An American election cycle runs for two years, and longer if you count the fundraising run-up. But an doesn’t get going until after the Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September.The current election cycle has been running for nearly four years – since the morning of 9 November 2016, when a stricken Hillary Clinton conceded to . And it has barely begun. This is why , or at least the handlers who work his Twitter feed and give him his cocoa, should be very worried by the .Donald Trump makes so much noise that we miss the stealthy, subtle moves that count. The two-ring circus is now...…An American election cycle runs for two years, and longer if you count the fundraising run-up. But an doesn’t get going until after the Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September.The current election cycle has been running for nearly four years – since the morning of 9 November 2016, when a stricken Hillary Clinton conceded to . And it has barely begun. This is why , or at least the handlers who work his Twitter feed and give him his cocoa, should be very worried by the .Donald Trump makes so much noise that we miss the stealthy, subtle moves that count. The two-ring circus is now...WW…

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The halls of the UN are a habitual stage for empty gestures and vaporous rhetoric, but last Friday’s Security Council vote was a dangerous theater of the absurd — and one in which two of the United States’s allies played ignominious supporting roles.The Council not only rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to extend Resolution 2231, which restricts conventional arms sales to the rogue regime in Iran. Britain and France, two American allies, abstained.Why are Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron signaling that the pressure is off, the coast is clear, and the mullahs are free to arm...…The halls of the UN are a habitual stage for empty gestures and vaporous rhetoric, but last Friday’s Security Council vote was a dangerous theater of the absurd — and one in which two of the United States’s allies played ignominious supporting roles.The Council not only rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to extend Resolution 2231, which restricts conventional arms sales to the rogue regime in Iran. Britain and France, two American allies, abstained.Why are Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron signaling that the pressure is off, the coast is clear, and the mullahs are free to arm...WW…

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All politics aspires to the condition of entertainment. Given the condition of entertainment these days, this is no longer such a stretch. Michelle Obama . This was planned, but it did not go to plan. Obama has star power. She made low-wattage Biden look like a guttering candle.  Obama was meant to warm up the crowd for Biden. Instead, she blew him off the stage to rapturous applause – or would have, because this convention is being conducting as the world’s biggest Zoomathon. In space, no one can hear you whoop.Conventions go on for days, until the party members surrender. The...…All politics aspires to the condition of entertainment. Given the condition of entertainment these days, this is no longer such a stretch. Michelle Obama . This was planned, but it did not go to plan. Obama has star power. She made low-wattage Biden look like a guttering candle.  Obama was meant to warm up the crowd for Biden. Instead, she blew him off the stage to rapturous applause – or would have, because this convention is being conducting as the world’s biggest Zoomathon. In space, no one can hear you whoop.Conventions go on for days, until the party members surrender. The...WW…

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