The spirit of the orange MAGA monster is stirring. Despite Biden’s attempt to “return to normalcy”, with the Republican’s victory in the Virginia Gubernatorial Race, a state Biden won by 10 points last November, and their near-victory in solid-Blue New Jersey, where Biden won by…
On 2 February, Peter Cruddas, who has donated millions to the Tories and Vote Leave campaign, was appointed by Boris Johnson to the House of Lords. This move by the Prime Minister and the “buying” of political appointments once again…
The past month has seen a flurry of successive outrage campaigns from political figures on the right over what has been described by sitting Senators and even a US President as ‘cancel culture’. Prominent examples include Gina Carano’s firing from…
Everything Biden has done since becoming president has been carefully crafted to negate every personal and political characteristic of his predecessor. This is not just clever optics – Biden is the antithesis of Trump in every way. He cherishes the…
This end of year review is part of a series from Backbench’s editorial team as they consider some of the themes that have dominated 2020. The views expressed in these reviews are those of the editors themselves and do not…
Joe Biden will be president after January 20th, 2021 regardless of the Trump campaign raising many doomed-to-fail lawsuits. It is time and has been time – since the President-Elect won each recount since the election was called – to talk…
While on the campaign trail in August, Donald Trump appealed to churchgoers by claiming his rival, President-elect Joe Biden, would be harmful to faith if elected. “No religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God,” was how Trump described Biden’s…
Well, it has taken me over a fortnight to recover from all that drama. Joe Biden did something a presidential candidate has rarely done in turfing Donald Trump out of office after one term, something which has not occurred since…
After days of uncertainty as mail-in ballots were counted, it’s clear that Kamala Harris will be the next vice-president of the United States. This is undoubtedly exciting. After forty-eight male, (almost entirely) white vice-presidents before her, it’s extremely significant that…