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Farage Celebrates Securing Clacton ‘Free Port’ Coup as Part of US-UK Trade Deal
True purpose of the Reform Leader’s visits to Washington revealed as Trump-backed plans to transform the Essex coastline into the ’51st State’ are unveiled
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‘Trump’s Betrayal of America’s Closest Allies Should Be a Wake Up Call for the UK’
The UK Government’s attempts to bridge the divide between Europe and the White House are rapidly running out of road, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to Trump and Putin’
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
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Deadly Lies: Ukraine on Tenterhooks as Putin and Trump Talk of Truces
In his latest dispatch, Chris York reports on overnight attacks on Kyiv, Trump’s diplomacy and the latest drone and media manoeuvres
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‘Why the Democrats Must Start Fighting Back Against Trump and Musk’
Former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski tells Alexandra Hall Hall why the Democrats’ reluctance to push back against the Trump administration is only making things worse
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‘Welcome to Soviet America’
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed the need for major reform of the US political and constitutional system
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‘Tesla Takedown’ Campaign Spreads as Anti-Musk Activists Target Showrooms Across UK
Campaigners are targeting the stock price of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker as the backlash against his support for far right movements grows
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Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism
Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member
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The ‘Gag Order’: Trump Comes to Bury Free Speech, Not Defend It
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
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Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the Myth of Liberal ‘Returnism’
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to “normal” they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
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Dazed and Confused: How the World Must Respond to Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System
Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy
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Populist Simplicity in a Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand?
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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Trump’s Mob Rule: An Offer We Can Only Refuse
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
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Starmer’s Moment of Truth: ‘Britain Must Align Itself with Europe’s Regulated Capitalism and Collective Security’
The PM’s pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is ‘downright reckless’ and an ‘exercise in dangerous delusion’, argues Clive Lewis
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The Brutalist: How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s New World Order
For all its chaos in operation, Trump’s regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Geo-Political Minefield’ Between Donald Trump and Europe
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
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Clouds Darken Over Ukraine: But Is There a Sliver of a Silver Lining?
In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin
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For Ukrainian Survivors of Putin’s War, Donald Trump is Yet Another Threat to Their Lives
“Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin ‘wants peace’” a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
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‘It’s Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe’s Ally’
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
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Fear and Favour: What Does Trump Owe Putin? Maybe His Life
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key
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‘Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
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Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation
Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation
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‘Blind Rearmament Won’t Counter the Threats from Putin and Trump’
With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
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‘Trump’s War on Science Could Be Coming to the UK Soon’
There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates
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Kemi Badenoch’s Foreign Policy: ‘Channelling Her Inner JD Vance’
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader’s foreign policy set piece speech
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Kemi Badenoch Calls for Trump’s ‘Foreign Interference’ in UK-Mauritius Chagos Islands Deal
The Conservative leader’s spokesman backed a “foreign power” intervening in the UK’s sovereign interests
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‘Trump’s New World Order: America Will Enable Authoritarians to Win’
The spread of war in Europe is now a greater possibility than it has been since the height of the Cold War, writes AC Grayling
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Will the US Celebrate the Third Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion by Betraying Ukraine?
Zarina Zabrisky explores Trump’s new alliance with Putin and the dark economic and ideological forces behind this new phase in the war
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‘F**k Trump’: Kyiv Faces the Darkest Hour
Chris York explores the mood in the capital as Ukrainians try to make sense of the US President’s support for the Kremlin
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‘Keir Starmer Must Accept These Hard Truths Before Meeting Donald Trump’
Before the Prime Minister heads to Washington he must wake up to the fact that the UK’s real allies may now lie elsewhere, argues UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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‘There Is Nothing ‘Natural’ About Donald Trump’s Predatory Exploitation of Ukraine’
The US President’s attempts to extort Ukraine for its natural resources, while abandoning its fate to Russia, is a return to the worst imperial politics of the past, argues Aleksandar Djokic
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‘Donald Trump’s USAID Freeze Is Already Hurting Ukraine and Will Come Back to Bite America Later’
The US President’s suspension of all foreign aid is already having a devastating impact in war-torn Ukraine, reports George Llewelyn
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‘Dear King Donald the Magnificent’ – A Letter From One Troubled Monarch to Another
King Charles congratulates Donald Trump on his “magnificent accomplishment” in restoring monarchical rule to America, imagines Alexandra Hall Hall
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From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State
While the media mogul spent more than half a century building up back-door political influence, the social media broligarch stormed into the US Government in just two years. Peter Jukes explores how the use of power through media has evolved
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It’s Not Ukraine that Needs DeNazifaction: US Far-Right Operatives in Kyiv
Why was Jack Posobiec, who has spread baseless Russian propaganda about the country, accompanying a US Treasury delegation visit to Ukraine?
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‘No, Gen Z Do Not Want to Be Ruled by a Dictator’
The media has been full of incredibly dubious claims that young people want to be ruled by a dictatorship. The reality is very different, argues Natasha Devon
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With Another Felony Conviction, Will Nigel Farage’s Pal Steve Bannon be Barred from the UK?
Grant Stern explains the origin of the Byline Times exclusive that ended in another conviction for the Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica boss
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Trump’s Middle East Riviera: What Next for Gaza?
Even if Jordan and Egypt somehow agreed to a US take over Gaza, who would physically remove 2.5 million Palestinians? Trump’s proposal is pure fantasy – but what does it reveal?
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‘In the Face of Shock-and-Awe Fascism, Resistance is Fertile’
If enough people are talking with each other about why the rule of law, strong democratic values and human rights are worth defending, the demagogues will fail
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From TikTok to USAID – The Perfect Storm
Paul Niland dissects the lies and outright skirting of the law being perpetrated by Trump and Musk
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Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the ‘New Authoritarianism’ Leading the US Down an Increasingly Dangerous Path
The early stages of Trump’s new administration are following an alarming and predictable pattern, argues Christian Christensen
