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The answer is becoming increasingly clear for anyone wondering how Joe Biden is performing his daily duties as “President of the United States.” It appears as though surrogates who were previously working behind the curtain are coming out of hiding, possibly to assure Democrats that despite Joe Biden’s obvious mental limitations, the old guard, anti-American radicals who’ve been running the party for almost two decades, are still in control. Only moments ago, former President Barack Obama was captured on video walking up to the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London. BREAKING: Barack...

Hard to believe but it’s only just over a week since the latest Tory psychodrama began. It feels longer. So much longer. Time bends and stalls when you’re in the parallel universe of a Liz Truss speech. She leaves audiences begging for a lethal injection. The other leadership contenders are little better, registering mostly as absences on the space-time continuum. Negative energy.

Tony Blair left Gleneagles on Friday night at the end of the most dramatic week in his eight-year premiership. For once, that adjective is justified. So much of Mr Blair’s time at 10 Downing Street has been infused with drama and tension – above all, before and after the Iraq war. So many Blair weeks have been headlined “the most dramatic”, “the most dangerous”, “the most perilous”. But this week, Britain’s prime minister rode a political and emotional rollercoaster that stands alongside nothing else he has had to deal with. On Wednesday he revelled in London’s victory in the 2012...