Day: November 15, 2016

    After five days of hand-wringing and soul-searching, the results are in. Smug urban liberals in their coastal bubbles never bothered to understand the suffering of America’s rural working class. The people whom globalisation left behind, who have seen their livelihoods and economic security decimated by trade deals and what they see as uncontrolled immigration had had enough of the Washington elite telling them what to think. Hillary Clinton was the candidate of the establishment; Donald Trump the candidate of change. This was how he won. Undoubtedly there is some truth to that analysis, more than the shell-shocked Democratic Party licking its wounds in DC would care to admit. But it is also delusional for any election post-mortem to fail to recognise the inherent and deep...

    After Donald Trump’s election as president, Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who was director of Clay County Development Corp. in Clay, a tiny town outside Charleston, reportedly posted about the move from Michelle Obama to Melania Trump on Facebook, saying: It will be so refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady back in the White House. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels, according to NBC affiliate WSAZ. The news station reported that the town’s mayor, Beverly Whaling, then replied, “Just made my day Pam.” The comments were later deleted, but images of the post have been shared widely on social media. As of Monday afternoon, an online petition calling for the women’s terminations had garnered more than 14,000 signatures. Both of their Facebook pages have been remo...

    President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have vowed to tackle ISIS together after holding breakthrough talks on the telephone. Less than a week after the billionaire’s election, the Kremlin said Putin called Trump yesterday to begin negotiations over how best to tackle to terrorism. The Russian is reported to have said he is ready for dialogue with the US “on the basis of mutual respect, non-intervention into each other’s internal affairs”. According to the news agency Kremlin, Putin and Trump have agreed to “work to channel bilateral relationships into constructive cooperation, to combine efforts to tackle international terrorism and extremism, and to continue contact by telephone and to work towards meeting in person”. "The importance of creating a ...