8 Takeaways as Senate Again Fails to Convict Trump, This Time With 7 GOP Votes
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8 Takeaways as Senate Again Fails to Convict Trump, This Time With 7 GOP Votes

With seven Republicans voting with all Democrats to convict, the Senate nevertheless voted Saturday afternoon to acquit former President Donald Trump, in his second impeachment trial, of a single charge of incitement of insurrection. Americans, and apparently most senators, were under the impression that the Saturday session would feature closing arguments and perhaps a verdict. …

Downing Street’s reshuffle sees Symonds’ grip tighten

Downing Street’s reshuffle sees Symonds’ grip tighten

Now that Dominic Cummings has gone, who will power the Government’s political strategy? The question has been asked since November. Three months later, there’s an answer. Friday evening is the witching hour of news announcements: too late for TV to make much of them, too early for the Sunday papers, with their agenda-setting, to leap…

Anthony Browne: Why the UK’s fall in GDP is not the worst of the G7, but in the middle

Anthony Browne: Why the UK’s fall in GDP is not the worst of the G7, but in the middle

Anthony Browne is MP for South Cambridgeshire and a former Europe Editor of the Times. There is no doubt that the UK has suffered a severe economic hit as a result of the pandemic, but just how bad? In particular, is it true, as opposition politicians claim, that we not only have the worst death…

Newslinks for Saturday 13th February 2021

Newslinks for Saturday 13th February 2021

Coronavirus 1) Johnson has “three-stage plan for reopening the economy” “Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a three-stage plan for reopening the economy from lockdown that could allow pubs across England to serve customers again by Easter weekend at the beginning of April, i can reveal. A senior Government official has told this newspaper the Prime…

Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”

Conservative MPs on when lockdown should end. “We should start on March 8.”

Until roughly the end of last month, there seemed to be an expectation that the vaccines were here; Covid-19 would be put in its place, and that the country would be back to near the old normal by next autumn. Since then, there has been debate among Ministers and their scientific advisers about how effective…

7 Highlights From Trump Team’s Defense in Impeachment Trial
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7 Highlights From Trump Team’s Defense in Impeachment Trial

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump gave a significantly shorter presentation Friday in his defense than the Democrats’ House impeachment managers did the previous two days in acting as prosecutors.  Day Four of Trump’s second Senate impeachment trial began around noon and Trump’s legal team yielded the balance of its 16 hours of allotted time…