This is a headline in the Financial Times this morning: The substance of the story does not matter in any large part. The fact is
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What happens when politics dies in August? A flight of leaders to Washington that achieved nothing. Trump was flattered. Zelensky was patronised. And the rest?
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This tweet is staggering: We are used to crises, conflicts, wars and their consequences. I wish that were not the case, but they have happened
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I put out a tweet last night suggesting that whatever might happen in the meeting between Putin and Trump, the outcome would be half-baked Alaska.
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I was reflecting last night on the news and its obsession with Trump, with Putin, with war, with genocide, with Israel, with small boats, and
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It is rare for this blog to promote anything related to the Adam Smith Institute, but there have to be exceptions to every rule. This
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Trump took over policing in Washington, DC this week to supposedly tackle a crime wave. In reality, crime in Washington, DC, is falling, and at
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On Monday, the FT reported that: Donald Trump has picked a loyalist from the rightwing Heritage Foundation to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after
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No sooner had I finished my post on why the 2008 global financial crisis could happen all over again than I noticed this in the
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