Tag Archives: Donald Trump

The failed coup and the disputed facts

Posted on 15th January 2021 by Jonathan Clatworthy

Julian Borger covered the attack on the US Capitol for the Guardian. The Washington gang, he said, had much in common with other angry crowds he had seen: Afrikaner neo-Nazis in South Africa, Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo. Reading reports like … Continue reading →

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Why did 70 million vote for Trump?

Posted on 14th November 2020 by Jonathan Clatworthy

From outside the USA it seems astonishing that 70 million people voted for another four years of Trump’s presidency. Many people have responded passionately, either shocked that anyone at all should support him or denouncing the way Democrats and ‘the … Continue reading →

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Fake news, democracy and the real world

Posted on 26th January 2019 by Jonathan Clatworthy

How fake news undermines democracy and the common good Continue reading →

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Trump’s Christian supporters – are they Christians?

Posted on 28th December 2017 by Jonathan Clatworthy

Congratulations to Paul Bayes, the Bishop of Liverpool, for speaking out in public about the misuse of the terms ‘Christian’ and ‘Evangelical’ for people who oppose what Jesus stood for. He did so in an interview with the Guardian at … Continue reading →

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President Trump: some distheological causes

Posted on 14th November 2016 by Jonathan Clatworthy

Syriza, Podemos, Le Pen, Brexit, now Trump. What’s happening? As long as the debates are conducted in black and white, each side too angry too understand the other, we will not find a satisfactory way forward. This post describes some … Continue reading →

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