Thomas Jefferson
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Independence day: 10 great things to celebrate about America
- US
- July 4, 2017, 01:03
Good morning America, Happy Fourth of July. While smug Europeans may smile on indulgently, apparently oblivious as to how demented their fans have bee(...)

Politeness is a higher virtue but it’s hard in the face of rudeness
- People
- June 1, 2017, 06:00
Many people dislike references to Thomas Jefferson because he is, to quote that ubiquitous word, “problematic”. He was a polymath, draftsman of the US(...)

All the presidents’ gardens
- Gardens
- March 4, 2017, 00:00
Now that the Trump administration is ensconced in Washington, the question of whether the famous White House kitchen garden championed by Michelle Ob(...)

Trump insists media out to get him as McCain warns on press suppression
- US
- February 19, 2017, 18:49
US president Donald Trump returned to campaign mode on Saturday in front of a 9,000-strong crowd in Florida, accusing the media of working to undermi(...)

Trump savages ‘dishonest media’ while making false claims
- US
- February 19, 2017
In late September 2016, Donald Trump held a rally in Melbourne, Florida, where he railed against the media and bragged about the size of the crowd. F(...)

Protests continue as Romania wakes from political slumber
- Europe
- February 12, 2017, 20:07
Radu Dinescu was already in bed when Romanian media broke the news. “When I heard what the government had done I got up, got dressed and came straigh(...)

Trump’s stumbles force aides to rethink tactics
- US
- February 6, 2017, 12:30
US president Donald Trump loves to set the day’s narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night. Aides confer in the(...)

Presidential inaugurations: from top hats to fears of assassination
- US
- January 19, 2017
Donald J Trump will on Friday ascend the steps of Capitol Hill and utter an oath first sworn by George Washington in 1789. “I do solemnly swear that (...)

Irish Connections: Mahonia
- Heritage
- January 7, 2017, 05:00
It looks like a very posh holly. Garden designers love it for the structural statement it makes in a border; the rest of us enjoy the clumps of yellow(...)

In a Trumpkin world truth and facts have lost all value
- Business
- November 17, 2016, 05:34
“Reality has a well-known liberal bias,” as US comedian Stephen Colbert once put it, lampooning George W Bush, who was sitting just a few feet away at(...)