Friday, 31 January 2025

Efficiency drive or retribution in Washington?

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So many federal employees have received notices of redundancy, resign or be fired that the millions of people who work for the government in...
Thursday, 30 January 2025

Guantanamo rises again

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Just when Guantanamo was beginning to fade into the background with only 15 prisoners, albeit alleged big-time al-Qaeda suspects, left to po...
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Trump enjoys causing chaos

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Chaos theory is all about how small incidents, like a butterfly or bumble bee flapping their wings in one part of the world, can have a glob...
Tuesday, 28 January 2025

The Palestinian tragedy of returning home to a pile of rubble

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For thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, returning home during the ceaefire has meant going back to a heap of rubble. Their homes have been bo...
Monday, 27 January 2025

What has Trump done in first week?

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The world hasn't been disrupted since the arrival of Donald Trump back in the White House. But there have certainly been some fairly dra...
Sunday, 26 January 2025

Trump on China is all quiet at the moment

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On Day One, Donald Trump said, he would impose mighty tariffs on Chinese imports. Why hasn't this happened? Perhaps he had so many other...
Saturday, 25 January 2025

When will the UK spend more on defence?

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The UK and European partners have had plenty of time to get to grips with the inevitable, that President Donald Trump will demand a substan...