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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…
Trump’s tariffs are just bizarre
They would restore manufacturing, force trade barriers to be taken down, and allow new industries to be created. There have…
Can Trump defend his tariff calculations?
When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s ‘tariffs charged to the…
The growing controversy over Ireland’s neutrality
As the war of words between Donald Trump and the EU continues to escalate, European countries have become increasingly concerned…
Trump has bet the house on tariffs
‘My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day’, Donald Trump told the audience that had gathered in the Rose Garden for…
Trump’s tariffs are a real Brexit win
So, Britain has got its trade deal with the US – of sorts. Donald Trump has awarded Britain no exemption…
Trump prepares to take his tariff war global
In just a few hours, Donald Trump is set to take his tariff war global. At 9 p.m. UK time…
