10 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: It sends a shiver down the spine but I'm not sure Farage and Le Pen would do a worse job than these two puffed

Look behind all the flummery, the exaggerated public gestures of affection and the relentless self-congratulation during President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to Britain this week.

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45 h. ago Trump officials axed an online portal for its key climate report. Read it in full here

Guardian makes legally mandated gold standard report widely available after administration deleted websiteThe future of the US government’s premier climate crisis report is perilously uncertain after the Trump administration deleted the website that housed the periodic, legally mandated assessments that have been produced by scientists over the past two decades.Five national climate assessments have been compiled since 2000 by researchers across a dozen US government agencies and outside scientists, providing a gold standard report to city and state officials, as well as the general public, of global heating and its impacts upon human health, agriculture, water supplies, air pollution and other aspects of American life. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: I've seen the catastrophic effect of wealth taxes up close

As Labour's appetite for more spending, especially on welfare, becomes ever more voracious, so its search for new tax revenues to foot the bill becomes ever more desperate.

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7 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: We've become an unserious country. We're rudderless, adrift in a sea of troubles rather than in command of our destiny. And our leaders are to blame.

By common consent, on the Left almost as much as on the Right, Keir Starmer has got off to the worst start ever of any incoming British Prime Minister.

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9 d. ago Rachel Reeves is resilient and will bounce back, says Wes Streeting

Health secretary Wes Streeting has publicly backed his cabinet colleague Rachel Reeves, asserting she is “resilient and will bounce back" amid swirling speculation about her future in government.

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1 week ago Inside the Dalai Lama’s succession and what it means for China and the Tibetan struggle

As he turns 90 this week, the Dalai Lama has announced that he will reincarnated, setting his followers on a collision course with China. Alisha Rahaman Sarkar speaks to activists and the president of the Tibetan government-in-exile about what this means for the future of Tibetan Buddhism

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump’s aid cuts and development: the global majority deserve justice, not charity | Editorial

Funding is plummeting as needs grow, with the closure of USAID, the slashing of UK and European aid budgets, and the obstruction of debt reform and cancellationWhen one door closes, you would hope that another opens. As USAID was formally shut down on Monday, a once-in-a-decade development financing conference was kicking off in Seville. But while initially intended to move the world closer to its ambitious 2030 sustainable development goals, it now looks more like an attempt to prevent a reversal of the progress already made.A study published in the Lancet predicted that Donald Trump’s aid cuts could claim more than 14 million lives by 2030, a third of them among children. For many poor countries, the scale of the shock would be similar to that of a major war, the authors found. More than four-fifths of the US agency’s programmes have been cut, with surviving projects folded into the state department. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Labour's hollow drivel can't conceal that the defence of the realm is not safe in their hands

Donald Trump pulled off his second triumph of the week when Nato countries committed themselves to increases in defence spending

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: A daring raid that means Iran's brutal regime has now run out of options... the end of days beckons

The clerical-military dictatorship which has ruled Iran for almost 50 years has run out of options.

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2 w. ago A future master of the universe? Wes Streeting sips champagne with elite at 'world's secret government'

The Health Secretary's attended the Bilderberg Meeting in Sweden, sipping champagne in the company of billionaires, bankers and global power brokers.

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3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: No future UK government has a hope of making things better if it can't reform our incompetent Left

Former Tory Cabinet minister, Michael Gove, this week revealed he had to overrule civil servants who wanted to suppress newspaper revelations about grooming gangs in Rotherham.

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3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: The deeply personal vendetta driving Trump to deliver the fatal blow against Iran... and Israel's strategy to force his hand

For Trump, it's personal as well as political. The gun is locked and loaded. His finger is on the trigger. All Donald Trump has to decide now is when to pull it - and destroy Iran 's nuclear weapons facilities.

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3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Iran's dictators have one final suicidal weapon they are now threatening to unleash. It will spell the end for them

A senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revol­utionary Guard Corps has warned that the regime, reeling from Israel's onslaught, might move to close the Strait of Hormuz.

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4 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Israel holds the cards. Trump has been squared. The mullahs in Tehran must now fear for their existence

The United States did not participate in Israel's initial attacks on Iran but it certainly knew they were coming. Donald Trump admitted as much to the US media yesterday morning.

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4 w. ago Senior Government Minister hears young people’s aspirations for future as funding announced

At today’s Scottish Robotic Games, the first to be held at Leonardo in Edinburgh since the pandemic, The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, The Rt Hon Darren Jones MP, spoke to students from schools across Scotland about their aspirations for the future.

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last month ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's claim to be 'investing in Britain's renewal' is delusional drivel in a class of its own

'Our first job was to stabilise the economy and public finances,' Keir Starmer tweeted yesterday morning, a few hours before Rachel Reeves delivered Labour's spending plans.

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