As the FT notes this morning: A UN-backed panel declared a famine in Gaza for the first time on Friday, in a damning assessment of
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The Bank of England cut its base rate by an insignificant 0.25% yesterday, now pitching it at 4%, which is still above the rate of
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I noted this line in an email from the FT this morning: If Nato’s tanks were called to respond to an invasion by Moscow’s forces
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This is the latest from Led by Donkeys. It tells us what we already know. But what it also says is that we weren’t just
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Starmer wants us to think he’s doing big foreign policy deals. He isn’t. He’s playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really
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Starmer has done a deal with the EU. Only, of course, just like the deal with Trump, most of the detail has yet to be
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If you listened to 10 Downing Street, you would think that the agreement it is trying to reach with the EU today is epochal. It
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Keir Starmer appears to have been celebrating today because USA has said that it will only charge a 10% tariff on exports from this country
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This is the first of a series of tables put out by the US government yesterday to supposedly justify what it calls reciprocal tariffs: Others
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