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We can only solve our population crisis with family-friendly policies
Evidence suggests there is a “fertility gap” between the number of children that couples want and the number they have. Affordability is the key issue.
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Geeta Nargund
Trump U-turns on tariffs for everyone bar China
Global markets have rallied this evening, after Donald Trump dramatically U-turned on his tariff policy, albeit with one big exception.
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Caitlin Allen
Trump’s America: a nation founded upon Reason is now defined by Unreason
Trump is nothing like Nixon, Roosevelt or Attlee.
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David Waywell
Next… Trump tries to do his own Iran nuclear deal
Donald Trump has surprised the world by announcing that the US will hold “direct talks” with Iran this Saturday in Oman over a new nuclear deal.
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Caitlin Allen
As The Great Gatsby turns 100, Trump's America gives it special resonance
Trump is a self-mythologising social climber, just like Gatsby. He and his leading MAGA supporters also have much in common with Gatsby’s antithesis…
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Adam Boulton
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Emasculated Reform has lost the plot
In just a few months, Reform UK has changed dramatically.
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Gerald Warner
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Trump ignores Wall Street supporters and escalates China trade war
Donald Trump has raised the trade war stakes once again this evening with an extraordinary new threat that could bring the tariff rate on some Chinese…
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Caitlin Allen
Everything depends on whether higher tariffs are here to stay
No country has applied such broad tariffs on virtually all of its trading partners as the US plans to do.
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Ian Stewart
Stick with free trade - negotiate, don’t retaliate, start praying
Britain should avoid hitting back in the trade war launched on Liberation Day.
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Iain Martin
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China ramps up global trade war
Trillions of dollars have been wiped from global markets today as the world´s two largest economies find themselves, unequivocally, in a trade war.
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Caitlin Allen
Anna Bolena: Fridman is a mistress of the bel canto art form
Gaetano Donizetti’s first big hit opera is back at La Fenice in Venice, after an absence of 157 years.
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Gerald Malone
Britain steels itself for closure
We should be thankful that the UK government cannot afford to subsidise Chinese-owned British Steel.
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Neil Collins
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