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Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist based in New York. She is the author of She Left Me The Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me.

November 2024

  • Donald Trump and his pick for education secretary, Linda McMahon

    Digested week
    Digested week: Trump’s Star Wars cantina cabinet and No Consequences for Old Men

    Emma Brockes
  • Rachel Reeves leaving No 11 Downing Street on 20 November.

    Never mind what Rachel Reeves did long ago at the Bank of England: what claims do you make on your CV?

    Emma Brockes
  • Elon Musk and Donald Trump on stage, with a large audience behind them.

    Musk’s new role in Trump’s government is today’s ‘ugh’ moment in US politics. There will be many more

    Emma Brockes
  • Donald Trump smirks on stage with his palms in the air as Melania Trump looks on, smiling and clapping. Several US flags are draped behind them

    Digested week
    Digested week: Trump-voting trad wives and the fabulously monstrous Martha Stewart

    Emma Brockes
  • Trump’s win is so much worse this time. Americans knew what they were voting for

    Emma Brockes
  • Deborah Levy: ‘A writer’s career is choppy – I was 50 when I found success’

October 2024

  • A cat in one of Amazon UK’s most popular Halloween pet costumes of 2023

    It’s my first Halloween in the UK for two decades – and my American children are not impressed

    Emma Brockes
  • Jonathan Coe.

    Novelist Jonathan Coe: ‘Liz Truss was very unimpressed to meet me’

  • Eminem on stage with Barack Obama at a Democratic campaign rally

    Digested week
    Digested week: Obama fan-boys Eminem, American Airlines gets tough on ‘gate lice’

    Emma Brockes
  • Donald Trump at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina,  on 22 October.

    The word ‘fascist’ has lost all meaning. And Trump is using that to his advantage

    Emma Brockes
  • ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him

    Emma Brockes
  • Digested week
    Digested week: ‘Just moving’? Tell that to Florida zookeepers

    Emma Brockes
  • Is Donald Trump the greatest grifter of them all? Melania is giving him a run for his money

    Emma Brockes
  • JD Vance is trying hard not to be weird – and it’s making him seem more menacing still

    Emma Brockes

September 2024

  • Keir Starmer kisses his wife at the Labour party conference

    Digested week
    Digested week: sausage surrealism and a bowlful of Doom Loops

    Emma Brockes
  • Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff on 10 September 2024.

    God knows we need an antidote for all the lousy men in the news – and I think I’ve found one

    Emma Brockes
  • Huw Edwards leaves court after his sentencing.

    Huw Edwards, and the ludicrous arguments bad men make in defence of the indefensible

    Emma Brockes
  • The Prince and Princess of Wales hold hands as they sit on a blanket on a patch of grass

    Digested week
    Digested week: Awkward royals, ‘on the fence’ Trump voters and a crisp surprise

    Emma Brockes
  • Harris clearly beat Trump – not that you’d know it from the rightwing media. Shame on them

    Emma Brockes
  • Novelist Rumaan Alam: ‘A lot of people have secret money – it can make you crazy with envy’

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