The Guardian posted this yesterday, but amongst everything else that happened I missed it: Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to halt all federal funding for
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Sequestered Russian funds are not the answer to any question in themselves
I have, I admit, been struggling as to how to explain issues around the potential use of Russian sequestered central bank and oligarch funds that
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Chaos is not an adequate word to describe yesterday
What a day, yesterday was. Trump declared economic warfare on Mexico, Canada and China, imposing tariffs of 25 per cent in the first two cases.
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Starmer is making a fool of himself: the US is no longer our friend or ally
As Politics Home reported in an email yesterday: It is “totally unserious” to suggest that the UK must choose between siding with Europe or the
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The consequences of a society that does not care
It is all too easy at present to imagine that everything about politics is to do with Trump, the USA, Ukraine, resulting international crises, threats
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Where is the opposition to Trump?
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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Are Putin and Trump really friends?
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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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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