This is the end Hold your breath and count to ten Feel the Earth move and then Hear my heart burst again For this is the end...
As a sucker for Bond flicks, I have always held that ‘Skyfall’ is the best James Biond film ever. And the theme song, that opens the film with Adele’s soulful notes cutting through the visual effects, is one of the mezzo-soprano’s very best. Pity that such a beautiful, haunting number would best represent Joe Biden’s imploding political career in an incredible week in American domestic politics.
It was a week when Donald Trump stared back at death and came out on top, all fist pumping, teeth-baring, blood dripping down his cheeks, and possibly sealing a providential route back to the White House. Vladimir Lenin is thought to have said that there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Make that one week.
The fateful week started with Trump cheating death by the proverbial whisker as the assassin’s bullet grazed his right ear and gave his meandering campaign a new kiss of life, and ended with Hulk Hogan ripping off his shirt to wild cheers at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee as the rank and file of the party galvanized around the former president, handing him the nomination and showing the kind of unity of message and purpose that had long eluded the GoP. As the New York Times observed, “the shift in mood was striking: It has been decades since those at any Republican convention felt qu.