HeyJaredJames Butler
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 13, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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James Butler · Short Cuts: J.D. Vance’s Conversion (opens the original)
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Almost no politician writes his own books, and few people actually read them. J.D. Vance is different. Trump’s vice president was a writer before he was a politician, and brought a writer’s vices with him: a titanic but fragile ego, limitless self-interest and thirst for adulation, an unsleeping vigilance for any slight. Hillbilly Elegy, Vance’s first book, published in 2016, described his childhood poverty and rise out of it, and made him the liberal media’s favourite hick-whisperer. Communion
James Butler | Foul Means (opens the original)
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Nigel Farage is resigning as an MP to stand again for his seat in Clacton in a by-election, a move intended to stymie the ongoing parliamentary investigation into a £5 million donation he received from Christopher Harborne, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur based in Thailand. Farage’s announcement yesterday afternoon, a livestreamed litany of grievances, was also an attempt to regain the political initiative. He has been damaged by a series of stories about undisclosed funding from George Cottrell,
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