This post has been put on Twitter in the last couple of hours: I highlight these paragraphs: Why highlight this? Firstly, to show that at
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What’s next: your opinion is sought
Today is technically my last day in paid employment. At some point during its course, I hope that the University of Sheffield will be sending
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Starmer and Trump: a show not worth watching
Starmer‘s meeting with Trump was billed as the most important transatlantic Summit in which the UK had participated for a generation, or more. I dedicated
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Can US media survive being gagged by Trump?
Trump’s turning on the mainstream media in the US. Much of it is to be banned from the White House. How can US democracy survive
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Is Trump trying to wind Starmer up?
Before Starmer even got to the White House, Trump had upstaged him. The release of the Tate brothers from Romania, with an apparent open invitation
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Facts don’t matter to Trump and Brexiteers
I notice this on Blue Sky this morning: Trump is threatening 25% tariffs on the EU because he says VAT is a tariff on US
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The people running BP now are, quite literally, the enemies of humankind
The world is moving against renewable energy. As the FT has noted today: BP has abandoned a radical attempt to reinvent itself as a green
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The Washington Post abandons press impartiality
Unsurprisingly, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and the Washington Post still uses Twitter: He used his Twitter account to post this yesterday: The deluded mindset of
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Has Starmer lost the plot on defence?
It takes some political incompetence to announce a defence spending plan that reduces our security, undermines our soft power, does not deliver for the UK
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