An FT editorial this morning says: The most important task of the US legislature — America’s first branch of government — is to check the
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There are precedents for dictators making friendships of convenience until they decide to fall out, when the human cost of that happening is horrendous. Is
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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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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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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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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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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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Trump delivered another move in his plan to end democracy yesterday. As the New York Times has reported: The Trump administration said on Tuesday that
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I admit that the supposed ‘once in a lifetime’ decision taken by Keir Starmer to increase UK defence spending by something approximating to the square
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