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Trump’s Return and the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn’t the Answer – Reality Proves Otherwise
Not taking seriously political figures we find undesirable will not change their potential impact or ambitions – Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Nigel Farage only benefit from being underestimated, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Donald Trump’s Hateful Attack on US Government Workers Will Be Cheered by America’s Enemies
“America’s enemies will only watch with glee, as America self-destructs from within”, says former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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The Deal With the Devil that Paved the Way for Trump’s Oligarchy
As Donald Trump prepares to usher in an oligarchic dark age, Democrats must reflect on how their own flirtation with plutocracy shattered their party’s chances
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‘Donald Trump’s Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever’
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
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Donald Trump’s Team of Yes Men and Ideologues Shows There Will be No Guardrails Around His Presidency
The President elect’s appointment of a group of fawning and ideologically blinded advisers should worry us all, writes former UK Diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Lobbyists, Oligarchs and Power: The Pro-Putin Network Raising Fears of Foreign Influence in Trump’s Team
There is growing evidence of links between senior Trump appointees, associates, and Kremlin-linked entities
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‘The UK and EU Must Stand Together to Secure Ourselves Against the Threat from Trump’
Europe must wake up to the growing security threats posed by Russia and the new Trump administration
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The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psychic rebellion fuelled by tech-driven alternative realities, writes Hardeep Matharu
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Donald Trump’s Victory Shows UK Abortion Rights Are Not as Secure as You Think
Six women were charged in the UK for ending their own pregnancy after the US overturned abortion rights in 2022. Investigations have also exposed how US lobby groups are funding UK anti-abortion organisations
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‘Democrats Need to Stop Blaming Trump’s Voters and Admit the Party Must Change’
It was Trump’s lead on the core issues that matter to voters that won him the election – a language the Democrats didn’t know how to speak, writes US-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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X-Odus: Charities and Campaigners to Abandon Musk’s Twitter After Trump Endorsement
British nonprofits set to flee the platform after Elon Musk’s campaign for Donald Trump pays off
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‘I Don’t Believe in Democracy’: Putin’s Collusion with Trump Tracked in Real Time
Some of the loudest voices in the US are starting to say the quiet part out loud, reports Chris York
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Trump’s Victory: ‘The British Left Has Been Warned of a Far-Right Future’
The UK needs a revolution in the way politics and democracy works – starting with proportional representation, writes Neal Lawson
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Ecocide and Genocide: What Trump Wants in Gaza and Why Jill Stein is No Answer
Trump plans to accelerate Israel’s violence in Gaza, male violence against women and industrial violence against the earth. He must be stopped.
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‘I Will Lose My Job for Speaking Out About the Mayhem a Donald Trump Us Presidential Election Victory Will Cause – But I Have To’
A senior US insider breaks rank to detail exactly what a Donald Trump victory will mean
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Revealed: Trump Campaigns Received $45m from Tufton Street Donors
A transatlantic “web of dark money” ties UK think tank donors to Donald Trump and US Republicans
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American Carnage: The Musk-Trump Plan for Total Collapse
A systems lens suggests a quarter of GDP could evaporate on a pathway to violent civil unrest, concentration camps, and genocidal violence that would be a free gift to Putin
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Voters Shouldn’t Forget the ‘Era-Defining Impact’ of Joe Biden’s Presidency
History will show the economic and social legacy of the outgoing President to have been leagues ahead of his predecessor Donald Trump
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America, What are you Thinking?
Could the American people really be about to elect a man as obviously unfit for high office as Donald Trump as their next commander in chief?
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Nigel Farage Hired Far-Right Guru Steve Bannon’s ‘Consigliere’ as his Un-Registered Foreign Agent
Farage’s agent broke US federal law for over a year before declaring her work with the Reform UK leader
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X – Marks the Spot: Russia’s Second Front
Peter Jukes looks at the mounting evidence that Elon Musk is using his social media platform as a vector to attack Ukraine and support Putin’s murderous invasion
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Americans Struggling With Unprecedented Housing Crisis are ‘Scared and Afraid’ Trump will Make Life Even More Unaffordable
The economy is the most important issue for voters in the US Presidential Elections, with 40 million people living below the poverty line and new homelessness records being set.
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‘Can my Husband Find out who I Voted for?’ – How Women Being Pressured by Men to Change their Vote in the US Presidential Election is a Common Experience
Women who have been coerced by “angry” men are reaching out to support others in a new campaign called ‘Vote Without Fear’.
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Donald Trump, the BBC and the Real ‘Foreign Interference’ in this Election
Why is the BBC giving so much coverage to a complete non-story about Labour and the Democrats, just because the Republican candidate would like them to?
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A Donald Trump Victory Would Open the Door to a Dangerous new Era of the Global Far Right
The re-election of a national populist US President would be a severe threat to the future of liberal democracy
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Trump-Linked Operatives Ran Unlawful Surveillance Campaign Against Democratic Politicians, Alleges Whistleblower
The secret operation was allegedly conducted by former intelligence officials in order to “generate false information” about senior Democrats
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Harris Fights Off Fox Grilling, but Polarised US Presidential Election Still Misses the Bigger Picture
Americans will go to the polls in less than 20 days but the race still dominated by personality rather than growing international crises
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How JD Vance’s Attempts to Soften Republican Party’s Position on ‘Sensitive Topics’ Came Unstuck
Vance is judged to have performed better than Tim Walz at the Vice-Presidential debate, but the Minnesota Governor got the better of him when they discussed the 2020 election
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‘Obscene, Illogical, Unworkable’: The Trump/Vance Plan for Ukraine Revealed
Paul Niland examines J D Vance’s recent statements on the Trump plan to end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours”
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From Assassination to Misinformation: Kremlin’s Strategic Use of Digital Disinformation
“Ukraine played a role.” Once again Russian disinformation networks are weaponising an attempt on the life of a US President
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‘Kamala Harris Casts Herself as the True American Patriot in Barnstorming Democratic Convention Speech’
Where Biden’s campaign erred in building up Trump as a larger-than-life threat to democracy, Harris and other speakers sought to take him down with a series of jabs
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Democrats Show Off A United Front at ‘Big Tent’ Convention – But Divisions Remain Over Gaza
The Democrats are showing “unprecedented” party unity this week – but the Uncommitted Movement has signalled that the fight over Gaza is far from over.
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A Midwest Bernie: ‘Tim Walz on the Democrat Ticket Shows Younger Generations Cannot Be Ignored’
Kamala Harris’ choice of running mate has been praised as a ‘top of the leader-board pick’
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‘What I Learned Backstage: Tactical Advice for Kamala Harris’
Dan Kaszeta worked at the White House complex between 1996 and 2008 – he shares his key logistical tips for Harris’ campaign
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‘Really, America? Trump Again?’
The former President’s path to a second term in office just got a lot tougher
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From Me, Me, Me to You, You, You: The Democrats’ Fight Back Begins
By surprising Trump and Vance with his shock exit from the presidential race, President Biden has enabled the Democratic Party to appear more fired up and enthused than the MAGA Republicans, writes Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Biden’s Exit Is A Boon for the Young in America’s Intergenerational Political Battle for Its Democratic Soul’
America has a gerontocracy problem – in acknowledging it, President Joe Biden has shifted the political battleground against the far-right, writes Matt Gallagher
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JD Vance and the Radicalisation of the Right
Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, used to be a harsh critic of the former US president – now he’s a “dutiful ventriloquist of the Trumpian gospel”. Here’s what happened
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The Trump Assassination Attempt: Myths, Urban Legends and General Ignorance
Dan Kaszeta, who planned a number of protective advances and protection missions for the United States Secret Service, explores the challenges of USSS protection
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The Presidency of Kamala Harris: The Terror that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Ahead of this week’s presidential debate, which raised serious concerns about Joe Biden, Bonnie Greer shared her thoughts on why his Vice President may not be seen as an option to succeed him
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A Tale of Two Very Different Debates: Biden and Trump’s Horror Show, Sunak and Starmer’s No Surprises
From lies, incompetence, porn, and golfing bravo in the US – to dull and boring, with a side of rude and shouty in the UK
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‘Donald Trump’s Hush Money Verdicts May Not Hurt his Presidential Run But Will Damage America’s Democracy and Image’
The former US President was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels
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What Do the 2024 ‘Super Tuesday’ Exit Polls Tell Us About Trump’s Chances in November?
Nikki Haley may be off the stage but what will her voters do next? Martin Burns analyses the answers US voters gave to CNN’s exit polls in three states
