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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Negative cycles of economic stupidity
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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Why is the EU planning roads fit for Russian tanks?
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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The mess we’re in
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’s no big deal
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’s insignificant deal
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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Will Labour reverse the harm of Brexit?
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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Are UK cars going to be subject to a 25% tariff in the USA?
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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Will the UK fall into Trump’s trap?
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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