The Economist shows us what a difference three years can make in the assessment of the POTUS.

The hacks knew Biden can't operate without a TelePrompter and even then, on a bad day, just barely. They knew that his mind going blank-screen was happening with increasing regularity. Yet, true to the Democrat cause, they chose not to report it until last week's debate made honesty unavoidable

At The Conservative Woman, Kathy Gyngell writes of Nigel Farage's Reform UK appearing poised to claim at least 18 seats, as of the most recent polls, with the surge in support that number reflects appearing to gain momentum mere days from the election.

Millions of words have already been written to explain the for-the-moment American President's debacle of a performance in yesterday's debate.

Oddities and irregularities -- there have been so many leading up to this earliest-ever election road debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that the only wisdom certain to be drawn from the encounter is that the strange and weird are now the accepted norms of American politics. For subscribers, the comments thread is open

Until yesterday, the sharpest response to a question from a dopey Australian reporter is said to have come from Ava Gardner

When Thursday's big debate kicks off, CNN's moderators will be Jake Tapper, who enjoys likening Trump to Hitler, and Dana Bash, who is married to one of the 51 'intelligence and national security veterans' who dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation. As with every other mainstream media outlet, fairness will have nothing to do with it

While the gender clinic at the Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital continues dishing out the hormones and puberty blockers, in other jurisdictions trans ideologues in white coats have wormed and wriggled around laws restricting such 'treatments'.

Given the inclination, political provenance and Democrat affiliations of the New York judges who would hear Trump's appeal, one doesn't need to be clairvoyant to anticipate the result. Outflanking his accusers by going straight to a federal court might well be the course he chooses, especially as a decision would likely be delivered before election day