Kate Andrews

Has Trump given up on tariff deadlines?

9 July 2025 4:55 am

“TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025,” Donald Trump shared on Truth Social this morning. “There will be…

Meet Zohran Mamdani, the man who will ruin New York

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Manhattan The Friday before New York’s Democratic mayoral primary election, the 33-year-old candidate Zohran Mamdani walked the entire length of…

Can America afford the Big, Beautiful Bill?

2 July 2025 4:21 am

The President needed One Big, Beautiful Vote in the Senate to move forward with his One Big, Beautiful Bill. It was…

We need to hear from Tulsi Gabbard

24 June 2025 5:00 am

Where is Tulsi Gabbard? The country’s Director of National Intelligence has been glaringly absent as the biggest national security story…

Trump’s military parade is no show of strength

15 June 2025 6:10 am

“This is a big day for America!!! DJT” wrote on his Truth Social account, kicking off the day of his…

Elon Musk is right: America’s spending is out of control

4 June 2025 5:56 am

Elon Musk rarely bites his tongue. Just ask the Treasury Secretary, who the tech billionaire branded a “Soros agent,” or the UK’s…

Trump’s skewering of Cyril Ramaphosa was pure theatre

22 May 2025 4:29 pm

We got another round of extraordinary scenes coming out of Donald Trump’s Oval Office yesterday. During his meeting with ​​Cyril…

Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis is already being exploited

19 May 2025 10:44 am

This afternoon Joe Biden’s private office announced that the former president has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “The cancer appears…

Is America really ‘OPEN FOR BUSINESS’?

9 May 2025 5:24 am

‘America is OPEN FOR BUSINESS’, President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social, just as the details of the US-UK trade…

Kamala Harris is back

1 May 2025 6:09 pm

Addressing a ballroom filled with Democratic supporters and donors in San Francisco last night, Kamala Harris asked a favor from…

The tariff climbdown that defined Trump’s first 100 days

30 April 2025 8:46 pm

Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office have upended all universal understanding. The global trade order has…

Impeccable history of the free market – and from the BBC too

12 April 2025 9:00 am

The launch of Radio 4’s Invisible Hands series has been both blessed and cursed by timing. It tells the story…

Why has Trump backed down on tariffs?

10 April 2025 6:08 am

Two days ago, talk of a 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s ‘recipricoal tariffs’ was branded ‘fake news’ by the White…

Can Trump defend his tariff calculations?

3 April 2025 6:12 pm

When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s ‘tariffs charged to the…

Trump has bet the house on tariffs

3 April 2025 10:39 am

‘My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day’, Donald Trump told the audience that had gathered in the Rose Garden for…

What went wrong for MAGA in Pennsylvania

28 March 2025 6:48 am

What’s changed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania? The Republican-leaning district in a purple state has been turned on its head by a…

Is Trump’s tariff zeal beginning to wane?

25 March 2025 4:46 am

The President can’t stop talking about his favorite word – tariffs – although this week his comments are having a…

Will Trump’s spending bill luck run out?

16 March 2025 1:11 am

It isn’t just a weekend of warmer weather for the President, who took off for Mar-a-Lago yesterday evening. It is…

Will better-than-expected inflation numbers calm the markets?

13 March 2025 2:31 am

Has Donald Trump’s return to the White House triggered a second round of inflation? Not yet, according to the Bureau…

Can the MAGA coalition survive a recession?

11 March 2025 6:53 pm

The color red splashed across every news channel yesterday, as Donald Trump’s seemingly blasé attitude towards a possible recession wiped…

Trump’s whirlwind Congress speech infuriated Democrats

5 March 2025 5:31 pm

Donald Trump’s address to Congress last night was made up of his greatest hits since returning to the Oval Office.…

Can J.D. Vance be part of the peace talks?

1 March 2025 7:59 pm

Practically every aspect of that Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was surreal. The blow up at…

Can Starmer score an easy win with Trump on Ukraine?

28 February 2025 12:19 am

Keir Stamer has landed in Washington, where he joins the succession of European leaders lining up to convince the President…

Inflation rises to 3% – should we panic?

19 February 2025 8:33 pm

Prices are rising. Inflation rose to 3 per cent in the twelve months leading up to January, up from 2.5…

UK recession fears ease but Rachel Reeves has little to celebrate

13 February 2025 8:03 pm

The UK economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2024, according to the Office for…