Trump, Sydney Sweeney and the ‘war on woke’

Donald Trump needed his Maga base to focus on something other than the Jeffrey Epstein files. Enter Sydney Sweeney and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/sydney-sweeney-political-moment-may-backfire" rel="nofollow">uproar over a jeans advert</a>. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to politics reporter Amanda Marcotte about ‘cancel culture’ being a useful tool in a political crisis