Last week, I wrote about US President Donald Trump’s administrative self-coup (or autogolpe) — his orders to the executive branch to arrogate the power of the purse that the Constitution grants to the ...

While the neutral rate is almost certainly lower than 2.75 per cent, the ECB’s current benchmark deposit rate, there is also disagreement about what the exact figure is. It cannot be directly measured ...

But for Palestinians, the outlandish vision underscored the very real danger that Trump will embolden a government widely seen as the most rightwing in Israeli history, and give a green light to the ...

Trump is more respectful of his two fellow apex predators, China and Russia (a wolf with a high risk-appetite). He placed lower initial tariffs on China than on Mexico and Canada, perhaps because ...

Long Friday is a tiny restaurant in an old parade of shops in a pleasant suburb of Newcastle. I’m aware that, in itself, that may not seem hugely relevant to an international readership, but I found a ...

Top US diplomat echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk in condemning promotion of ‘solidarity’ and ‘sustainability’ ...

Donald Trump’s weaponisation of uncertainty has been dialled up in his second term. The “will he, won’t he” prevarication over import duties, and other threats, has left companies and investors in a ...