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Why did Trump throw Taiwan under the bus?
Things could have been very different. Since the distant days of the first Trump presidency, Taiwanese tech companies have been…
Javier Milei is deluded about the Falklands
Javier Milei might be a Thatcherite economically, but when it comes to the Falklands he’s about as Thatcherite as a…
Is Hungary right to quit the ICC?
When Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, who is nobody’s fool, offered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a state visit to Budapest…
Unlocked was changing inmates’ lives. So why has Labour binned it?
Unlocked Graduates, a charity that recruited hundreds of high-calibre graduates into the prison service, was one of the few glimmers…
South Korea must pick its next president wisely
Over 100 days since his impeachment trial commenced, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol was unanimously voted out by the…
Marco Rubio treads a fine line at NATO
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s trip to NATO headquarters in Brussels couldn’t have been easy for either Rubio or the…
The Democrats are desperate for Elon Musk’s downfall
Who was the biggest loser of Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court special election? You might think it was the defeated…
Why I’m giving my money to maths
When I was a teenager, mathematics saved my life. Diagnosed with Asperger’s, I had a knack for saying the wrong…
Labour’s Luton expansion plans get the green light
The economy may not be expanding, but Labour is determined Britain’s airports will. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has today approved…
The BBC isn’t even pretending to be impartial about Trump
If, for some unfathomable reason, you missed Newsnight last night, do make sure you see, somehow, the interview between presenter…
Watchdog probes Prince Harry’s charity
To the monarch of Montecito, who is once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons. It turns out the…
Give Trump’s tariffs a shot
So the big question is: will it work? Will Trump’s protectionist policies, announced with some fanfare at a Rose Garden event at the…
How Farage can win power
There can be no doubt that Nigel Farage was one of the big political winners of 2024. His decision to…
How Trump’s tariffs will hurt China
China has been hit hard by President Trump’s tariff list, which he unveiled yesterday in the White House rose garden.…
Keir Starmer plots retaliatory tariffs
How will the UK respond to Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’? After the US President announced a batch of new tariffs…
Starmer is teaching Europe a lesson on tariffs
The reactions to Donald Trump’s tariffs between London and Brussels could not be more different. Where Keir Starmer was conciliatory, stressing…
Prince Harry can’t seem to stay away from Britain’s courts
As flies are to wanton boys, so Prince Harry is to the British legal system. Amidst perhaps the most serious…
Have a tenth of all gay people really had an exorcism?
According to research commissioned by Stonewall, clerics are conducting one LGBTQ+ exorcism for every two religious wedding ceremony they perform.…
Trump’s tariffs could help China
Donald Trump is, at least, a man of his word. Before he won the US election, Trump said that China…
The grandeur of Trump’s tariffs
The first thing revealed by the high and wide-ranging new tariffs President Trump announced on “Liberation Day” is just how…
Trump doesn’t understand how trade deficits work
After Donald Trump’s Liberation Day, the US now imposes far and away the highest tariffs of any developed country in…
Israel is playing a dangerous game in Syria
As Donald Trump’s tariffs dominate the headlines, in the Middle East, Israel is stepping up its campaign against Syria. Israeli…
Japan has been stunned by the Trump tariffs
Virtually the whole world is waking up to the reality, not threat now, of President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, but…
Scottish Tory MSP storms out ‘Trump-esque’ party
All is not well in the Scottish Tory party. Onetime leadership hopeful Jamie Greene MSP has dramatically quit the party…
This could be the largest US tax rise in half a century
Across the world, markets are plunging as they respond to the global tariffs Donald Trump unleashed from the White House…
