ONE of Britain’s biggest bookies paid out more than £100,000 yesterday to punters who backed billionaire Donald Trump as the US Republican Party’s presidential candidate.
Paddy Power prematurely issued returns on 1,000 bets after the divisive property magnate extended his lead, winning seven of 11 US states holding primaries on “Super Tuesday.”
One politically savvy punter scooped £16,400 last June after placing a £400 bet at 40/1 when the then-outsider Mr Trump launched his campaign.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The prospect of the Democratic Socialists of America member’s victory in the mayoral race has terrified billionaires and outraged the centrist liberal Establishment by showing that listening to voters about class issues works, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY


