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Gaza’s anti-Hamas protests deserve much more attention
Where are the denunciations for the recent murder of a 22-year old Gazan by Hamas, for protesting against the group?
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Tim Marshall
How Trump trade war will impact Britain
“Our intention remains to secure a deal” but “nothing is off the table” said Keir Starmer today as world leaders scramble to respond to Donald Trump´s…
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Caitlin Allen
Word Watch: As
An obsolete usage of this word has established itself, like a Japanese weed, so rapidly in our higher journalism.
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Andrew Wilton
The US was a patsy for too long, but scattergun tariffs are not the answer
Trump and America have a legitimate grievance, but they have used a scattergun where what was required was a laser.
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Gerald Warner
Israel vows to seize "large areas" of Gaza
Israeli tanks are advancing into central Rafah today, following a night of deadly airstrikes across Gaza, after Israel´s defence minister announced a…
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Caitlin Allen
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If US tariffs do no good, neither will retaliatory ones
If tariffs on exports to the US do no good for Americans, then neither will tariff-shaped countermeasures imposed in Europe or elsewhere.
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Anthony Peters
Will Donald Trump’s hair outlast the US Constitution?
On the hair-raising possibility of a third Trump term.
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David Waywell
Terrible Tuesday, with no respite tomorrow
On a day being coined “Terrible Tuesday”, the economic picture for Britain is, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, not a pretty one.
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Caitlin Allen
Le Pen: judicial activism is a grave threat to democracy
It is instructive to place Marine Le Pen’s misdemeanour within the context of overall EU corruption
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Gerald Warner
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Three times a Trump: the US President’s lust for perpetual power
Trump could resort to the same tactic as Putin to get round his presidential term limit.
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Adam Boulton
Why Le Pen election ban concerns her arch-rivals
“Je suis Marine”, declared Hungary’s Viktor Orban today, as Le Pen’s European allies rushed to her defence following the bombshell verdict that the…
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Caitlin Allen
MAGA has no care for collateral damage
No country will be spared the full force of "liberation day".
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Anthony Peters
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