President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs have drawn condemnation not just from the libertarian Right, but also from many progressives. Opponents on the Left and centre-Left argue that Trump’s gambit will leave Americans poorer, weaken the nation, and harm developing countries …
Trump needs an off-ramp
Markets around the world are reeling in response to President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes. Judging by the stock-market plunge, investors in the United States have assessed that publicly traded companies are worth trillions of dollars less than they were …
Meet the global famine conspiracists
In the twilight of Joe Biden’s presidency, ex-rock star turned MAGA maven Ted Nugent posted an ominous message: “They are not ‘predicting’ food shortages. They are planning them.”
At around the same time, shit-posting Disney action hero and mixed martial …
Why Starmer shouldn’t trust Trump
“Everything has changed,” Keir Starmer warned us only a few weeks ago, noting how Donald Trump’s re-election is reordering the globe. And yet somehow, even after “Liberation Day”, everything in Britain has stayed the same. Austerity is back, just with …
Trump will make China great again
Although the White House insists it used a sophisticated formula to calculate its ‘Liberation Day’ tariff list, and even showed us its maths, can it really be a pure coincidence that if you type “What would be an easy way …
Trump’s tariffs are the end of globalisation
When regimes end, they end in phases. Communism died over a period of 10 years, starting with the strike at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the great symbolic episode, and the …
Will Marine Le Pen become a martyr?
With Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement on Monday, France has become the latest country to have a national political campaign take a detour into the law courts. In the USA, the first phase of last year’s presidential election centred …
Trump is neglecting moderates
President Trump’s first two months back in the Oval Office have been a whirlwind of unprecedented executive action. This has predictably ignited forceful reactions from Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media, attacks which nevertheless have yet to significantly …
Will Liberation Day transform the world?
“My philosophy, Mr President, is that all foreigners are out to screw us and it’s our job to screw them first.” With these words, the US Treasury Secretary convinced the President to deliver a colossal shock to the global economy. …
Europe needs a battle plan
Europe is appalled. Donald Trump has delivered a wake-up call that it cannot ignore. We have long been in denial about the state of our relationship with America, knowing about our dependency, but have done nothing to correct it. This …
Will Australia fall for Trumpism?
Where America goes, the rest of the world follows. Donald Trump has inspired copycats on just about every continent, politicians who frame their reforms as a crusade against a liberal establishment neglecting the country’s left-behind. As Australia’s 3 May federal …
Who is preventing peace in Ukraine?
Odesa’s historic city centre remains under daily Russian bombardment. Each night, we wake to news of yet another drone or missile attack. But so far the air defences, like Ukraine, hold out. And the yellow and blue flags fly defiantly …
Why Trump can’t beat the Houthis
Donald Trump took to Truth Social last week to give Iran a violent warning: “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN. …
How Trump broke the Canadian Right
Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, used to be the future, once. In October 2023, he posted a YouTube video of his interview in an orchard in British Columbia with the unworldly editor of a local …
How Musk is crashing Tesla
In hindsight, the farts were a giveaway. A few years ago, I was getting a lift in a Tesla Model Y, when the driver (a friend of a friend) offered to show me some of the car’s innovative features. Tesla …
