I rarely feel sorry for Keir Starmer, but I do this morning. He is hosting an eighteen-nation summit meeting on Ukraine in London tomorrow. President
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Who was to blame for what happened in the White House yesterday?
I think it is appropriate to undertake a very quick appraisal of who might be responsible for yesterday‘s debacle in the White House. Let’s be
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What now after the quite extraordinary behaviour from Trump?
Trump and Zelenskyy have fallen out, quite emphatically. The blame has to, very clearly, fall on Trump and Vance. Diplomacy has never looked like this,
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A rare indication of surviving conscience in the Labour Party
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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