After Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, the 80-year presidential cycle that periodically redefines the US is now playing out with the Trumpian destruction of trust and shredding of global alliances.
Sitting shin-deep like Canute, Andy Burnham has spent his first weeks in power ranting impotently at the tide.
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects, write Josh Dawsey, Dana Mattioli, Annie Linskey and Emily Glazer, The Wall Street Journal.
Susan O’Keeffe lived and worked in Manchester for 17 years. Andy Burnham’s promise of a “No10 North” won’t fix the distrust she has witnessed between the region and the capital.
Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of "flattery diplomacy". By Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw and Daniel Michaels, The Wall Street Journal.
Irish ministers burned the midnight oil with their colleagues 13 years ago to agree a budget; they can do it again – and more. But they have no leadership capital on social media regulation or climate measures.
As he prepares to replace Keir Starmer as British prime minister, Andy Burnham has many of the right ideas – and a very narrow economic and political path to implement them.
The Government’s own plan is to increase budgetary reliance on windfall corporation tax receipts. Something has to give before it’s too late, its fiscal watchdog has warned.
If economic success doesn’t move voters in Poland, economic failure doesn’t move them in the UK. In today’s fractious politics, it is all about the tribe.
Competing spending priorities and the repayment of debt contracted after Covid leave gaps to be filled under the Irish presidency of the EU. Jonathan Keane reports from Brussels and Thomas Hubert from Mullingar.
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