The British media goes bendy bananas over Europe (again)
Also this week: Trump’s Pentagon press purge and a new mission for Toby Jones.
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Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked by drama and controversy. Find our latest news and comment here.
The plot to asset-strip American government
Even the radical architects of Project 2025 didn’t propose what Elon Musk is doing to US democracy.
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Is Trump actually serious about tariffs?
The US president pushed Canada and Mexico to the edge of a trade war and pulled back at the last…
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Trump doesn’t need TikTok to win with Gen Z
Even before the election, the young US cohort was already shifting right.
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Donald Trump’s Florida project
How the Sunshine State, once America’s dead end, became its new seat of power.
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Trump’s America is a gangster’s paradise
He has stripped the country naked and revealed the ugly secret beneath our idealism: money and corruption.
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Will Donald Trump’s confidence trick work?
The US president’s self-belief cannot overcome the contradictions of his economic policies.
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The Nazis and us
The Holocaust continues to haunt our politics. But slurring our opponents as Hitlers is not the way to defeat them.
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Donald Trump’s gladiator politics
The president knows most of his executive orders will be challenged in court. He wants the fight.
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Donald Trump’s disaster capitalism
Los Angeles was primed to burn – by human error and human greed.
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Donald Trump can stay popular
There is goodwill for the president in the US, and it isn’t just because he’s not Joe Biden.
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Labour in the age of Trump
For Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the return of the Maga regime is a grave challenge.
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The spectre of Boris Johnson loomed at Trump’s inauguration
His presence in Washington was a reminder to the Tories of past success.
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Team Trump’s real feelings about Starmer’s Labour
From lagging defence spending to choosing Peter Mandelson as ambassador, the UK government is out of step with Maga.
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Can the United States resist fascism?
Whether Elon Musk’s salute was intended or not, America is too big for authoritarianism to take hold.
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Will the ceasefire last?
Trump has changed the calculus for Israel and the Middle East.
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The tide is starting to turn against Brexit
Interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch show how the European question has been reopened.
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Donald Trump’s techno-futurist inaugural address
The president embraces the Silicon Valley elite, leaving populists with little to celebrate.
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How will Labour handle Trump 2.0?
Japan’s Shinzo Abe is viewed as a pragmatic model for Keir Starmer to emulate.
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The return of Donald Trump
The inauguration is the crowning moment of Maga’s political resurrection.
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