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US Midterms

Voters Are Turning on Trump but Caution Is Required

The unpopular President may yet try to steal this November’s midterms as the consequences of his mistakes pile up, writes Rick Wilson

Former Democrat-turned-America First Grassroots leader Ally Raskin speaks at this year’s Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas GETTY

Every few days, friends overseas ask me the same questions, usually in the expectant tone of someone checking whether the patient has finally turned the corner. Is this the blue wave? Are the Americans coming to their senses?

The answer is a qualified yes – and the distinction matters more than the cable news chyrons will admit, and is a complication the Democrats don’t fully grasp.

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The Smoke Behind the Sunbeds

Can anything stop Brits booking getaways to a burning continent buckling under ‘hyper-tourism’? By Kamin Mohammadi
Kamin Mohammadi

‘I Found It Easy to Pray at St George’s, Feeling the Weight of the Millions of Prayers That Must Have Been Dispatched to God’

In 1588, the year of the Armada, Philip II of Spain was the most powerful monarch in the world. Forty years later, Spain went bust with the English and the Dutch squabbling over the carcass of the first global superpower. The British Empire reached its greatest territorial extent in 1922. A quarter of a century later, Britain was bankrupt.
Peter Oborne