4 h. ago Keir Starmer confirms when petrol, diesel and hybrid cars will be banned in major speech

Keir Starmer eased rules around new hybrid cars as he warned Donald Trump's tariffs will have a 'profound' impact on the global economy as markets tumbled across the world

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5 h. ago BREAKING: Keir Starmer to give major speech today as Trump tariffs spark global bloodbath fears

Keir Starmer will give an address in the West Midlands this afternoon as panic grows over Donald Trump's tariffs, which experts fear will cause a global recession

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer issues urgent 'world as we knew it has gone' warning as he makes major change

The Prime Minister has declared "the world as we knew it has gone" ahead of a major speech tomorrow in the wake of Donald Trump's tariff announcements.

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer issues urgent 'world as we knew it has gone' warning ahead of major speech

The Prime Minister has declared "the world as we knew it has gone" ahead of a major speech tomorrow in the wake of Donald Trump's tariff announcements.

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20 h. ago Keir Starmer to make major speech declaring 'British brilliance' after Trump trade war

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will declare his backing for 'British brilliance' with a support package for the car industry in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs

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59 h. ago Trump reveals his tariff endgame in bombshell post as Warren Buffett is forced to issue extraordinary denial

The post claimed that the president is hoping the tariffs will force the Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, allowing it to cheaply refinance trillions of dollars worth of US debt.

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4 d. ago US President Donald Trump's tariff bombshell wipes £2TRILLION off global stock markets

Financial markets have been rocked by fears President Trump's trade tariffs could lead to recessions around the world, as one expert warned of "full-scale economic warfare

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4 d. ago Donald Trump's tariff speech almost breaks the internet over bizarre fixation on common word

The US president became visibly gripped by a word that most Americans use without a second thought: "groceries." "Likewise, an old-fashioned term that we use: groceries," Trump mused

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4 d. ago Keir Starmer to give major speech today after Donald Trump's tariff bombshell

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will give a major speech today less than 24 hours after US President Donald Trump unleashed damaging tariffs on Britain and the rest of the world

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4 d. ago Six Donald Trump bombshells after tariff announcement and what it means for us

Donal Trump placed the highest tariff rates on the US' worst trading partners who he claimed "pillaged" the country.

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4 d. ago Tense Sky News grilling as UK minister admits Donald Trump 'won't get own way' on everything

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Donald Trump's bombshell announcement of a 10% US tariff on all British imports are a 'disappointment' and 'a challenge'

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4 d. ago Donald Trump 'suffers mental collapse' during live speech as he fluffs numbers

Donald Trump gave a high-energy speech in the White House Rose Garden on April 2, where he imposed a 25% tariff on countries that do not make products in the U.S.

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5 d. ago After months of surrender, the Democrats have finally stood up to Trump – thank you, Cory Booker | Emma Brockes

Watching the New Jersey senator hold court for 25 hours felt radical and catharticOne of the problems beleaguering political opponents of Donald Trump has been finding a form of protest that, given the scale of his outrages, doesn’t seem entirely futile. You can parade outside a Tesla showroom. You can hold up dumb little signs during Trump’s address to Congress inscribed with slogans such as “This is not normal” and “Musk steals”. You can, as Democrats appear to have been doing since the election, play dead.Alternatively, you can go for the ostentatious, performative gesture. On Monday evening, Cory Booker, the Democratic senator for New Jersey who carries himself like someone who’d have been happier in an era when men wore capes, started speaking on the floor of the Senate and carried on for 25 hours and five minutes, breaking the chamber’s record by almost 50 minutes and delivering – finally – a solid, usable symbol of rebellion.Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue readi...

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5 d. ago Who is Cory Booker as he breaks record for longest Senate speech with fiery Trump condemnation?

US Senator Cory Booker delivers a record-breaking 25-hour speech in the Senate, criticising Donald Trump's agenda and highlighting Democratic efforts to challenge the president

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5 d. ago Booker makes a stand against Trump – and doesn’t stop for 25 hours

Democrats have appeared lame and leaderless for 72 days, but then Cory Booker stood up and did something“Would the senator yield for a question?” asked Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.Senator Cory Booker, who on a long day’s journey into night had turned himself into the fighter that many Democrats were yearning for, replied with a wry smile: “Chuck Schumer, it’s the only time in my life I can tell you no.” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Ronald Reagan warns of Donald Trump trade war tactic in speech from 1988

Former US president Ronald Reagan warned of a Donald Trump-style trade war tactic in a radio address nearly 40 years ago.

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer gives major update on UK tariffs on Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day'

Keir Starmer insisted 'all options remain on the table' in how the UK responds to Trump's tariffs, adding: 'Nobody wants to see a trade war - but I have to act in the national interests'

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8 d. ago ‘Revenge is his number one motivation’: how Trump is waging war on the media

The president – who believes he has been treated unfairly by the press – is squeezing the media in different ways than his first termOn Tuesday 4 March, Donald Trump stood in the House of Representatives to issue a speech to a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term.Near the beginning of what was to be a marathon address, the president declared: “I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It’s back.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago What Is Free Speech? by Fara Dabhoiwala review – a brilliant history of a weaponised mantra

This fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itselfThis book arrives at an interesting moment. Elon Musk has declared himself a “free speech absolutist”. JD Vance worries that free speech in Europe is “in retreat”. Donald Trump issues an executive order “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship”. Meanwhile, journalists are routinely abused, threatened with lawsuits and branded enemies of the people. US federal agencies circulate lists of red-flag words such as “equality”, “gender” and “disabled”, and reporters are denied White House access for referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name. Free speech is, shall we say, an elastic concept.In fact, as Fara Dabhoiwala explains in this meticulous and much-needed history, it has long been a “weaponized mantra” in a public sphere dominated by the moneyed and the powerful. Many of those who think of free speech as being uniquely under threat today are rich, white men...

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1 week ago Trump crowns himself the ‘fertilization president’ at Women’s History Month event

Donald Trump crowned himself the “fertilization president” as he gave a speech at a Women’s History Month event.

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