Trump posted this on his social media platform yesterday: I am not sure whether he was trying to prove that he is deranged, deluded, in
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The axis of evil
Politico noted last night: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday joined a growing European backlash against the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. The
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Mandelson
There are four things to say about the the Mandelson papers: Starmer knew about Epstein, as did McSweeney. They appointed him anyway. They did not
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Never doubt the callousness of private sector markets
This headline is in an FT newsletter this afternoon: What is the message? It is that what the FT and Goldman Sachs describe as the
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The consequences of war
As the Washington Post has noted this morning of US economic data: Friday’s job numbers brought evidence suggesting that the gloomy types accurately saw weakness
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The real cost of war
These were the headlines in a FT newsletter this morning: It is the ordering of these headlines that I find interesting. Financial markets come first.
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Defence begins at home
Politicians talk endlessly about defence spending, weapons, and armies. But the first line of defence in any country is not military hardware. It is the
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A financial crash might now be the least of our worries
As the Financial Times warned in its editorial on Saturday, world financial markets have so far not taken sufficient account of the threat that the
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The Bored of Peace
The so- called ‘ Board of Peace’ is currently waging war with: Iran Lebanon Ecuador Venezuela Cuba This has provoked responses involving: Saudi Arabia Iraq
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