12 h. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: 'Rand Paul has the last shred of decency in the Republicans after Trump swipe'

Rand Paul became the unexpected moral compass of the Republican Party... showing us something has gone catastrophically wrong, after tearing into Donald Trump's birthday parade

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: 'People are now being punished just for existing in this US tyranny'

"Behind Trump is a rogue’s gallery of thugs who helped design this dystopia. They’ve spent years seeding the idea that cruelty is strength, that immigration is an invasion, that democracy is optional"

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: 'Donald Trump's attack dog Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious

Marjorie Taylor Greene clearly didn't read Donald Trump's "big, beautiful" spending bill before she voted for it - because she's now saying she didn't know about a key section

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8 d. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: 'Epstein's ghost comes back to haunt Trump as Musk trolls President'

Elon Musk posted what he called a 'really big bomb' regarding Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein - though there is no suggestion Donald Trump knew of any crimes or participated in any criminal behaviour

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2 w. ago Donald Trump must reverse his aid cuts and lift the death sentence on HIV patients

Editorial: As a new Independent documentary shows, by shutting off US foreign aid and abruptly stopping the supply of HIV drugs to developing countries, the US president has punished some of the poorest people on the planet

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3 w. ago Christopher Bucktin: I watched America burn for George Floyd

For a moment, it felt like history had shifted after George Floyd's murder. America had turned a corner on accountability. But now, five years on, the country is asking: what really changed?

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER BUCKTIN: ‘Luna's political rival gets three years in the slammer’

The Mirror's US editor, Christopher Bucktin, reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his weekly The Buck Stops Here column

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3 w. ago A Simple Accident review – Jafar Panahi takes us on a nightmare trip into a land of bribes and brutality

Cannes film festival An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events that expose the corruption and tyranny at the heart of IranJafar Panahi is the veteran Iranian auteur and democracy campaigner who continues to get arrested and imprisoned, to endure film-making bans and defy the law, finding loopholes through which his movies can be made and shown abroad. And the Iranian authorities, tensely and hypocritically aware of world scrutiny and indeed the soft-power prestige still to be accrued from Panahi’s eminence, appear (almost) to tolerate it.Now Panahi has come to Cannes with what might be his most emotionally explicit film yet: a film about state violence and revenge, about the pain of tyranny that co-exists with ostensible everyday normality. There are macabre stabs of satire, black comedy and horror-farce, and the movie almost looks like an Iranian dissident tribute to Weekend at Bernie’s or even Hitchcock’s The Trouble With Harry. Continue rea...

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4 w. ago CHRIS BUCKTIN: ‘Trump blooper declares sanctions war on Republic of Barbie doll’

The Mirror's US editor, Christopher Bucktin, reports on the best of the most bizarre it-could-only-happen-in-the-USA stories in his weekly The Buck Stops Here column. This week, a confused Trump mistakes toymaker Mattel for a country

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