Maeve McCormack Articles

Will Donald Trump win again in 2020? [column-group][column] If the whispered conversations inside the press office at the Democratic national convention last July had been reported maybe the  night of 8 November 2016 would have come as less of a shock. ‘I am really...

Having spent last week at the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia, it would have been hard not be inspired by the Clinton campaign. Sure enough, despite small protests from Bernie Sanders’ supporters (who represented no more than around five per cent of the...

The problem with Jeremy is that he is basically alienating people who should be the party’s natural constituents through poor decision-making and ill-thought-through policy. No, not that Jeremy – I’m talking about the health secretary, who in a matter of weeks has...

My grandfather used to tell a story about when he arrived in England in the 1950s, and spent a whole evening going door-to-door trying to find somewhere to lodge. Everywhere he went had a sign saying 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish'. He finally came to one house where...