3 h. ago Trump will 'go easy' on teetering Starmer over free speech during State Visit with PM 'on the ropes'

Labour had feared that the president could use the visit, which starts tonight, to lambast the PM over freedom of speech in the UK.

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14 h. ago Labour reignites row with Elon Musk on the eve of Donald Trump's state visit with free speech on the agenda

Downing Street accused Elon Musk of spreading 'dangerous' language, saying his rhetoric during an appearance at an anti-migrant protest in London threatened 'violence and intimidation'.

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29 h. ago Will Trump turn the screw on Starmer? PM braces for president to raise 'free speech' and tech firms during state visit this week

Despite the Prime Minister's hopes to make trade and tariff removal the focus of the president's three-day visit, allies suggest he has other plans.

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45 h. ago ‘Free speech’ row threatens to derail Starmer’s talks with Trump on state visit as government mired in chaos

Exclusive: US concerns over free speech in the UK expected to be high on the agenda between Starmer and Trump during the state visit with UK side in chaos after Mandelson sacking

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56 h. ago Trump is no 'strongman' when it comes to Russia or Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits | Simon Tisdall

Putin and Netanyahu are creating chaos in the vacuum left by a weak US president. But there are still ways to foil themIt is too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.Eight months on, the exact opposite is happening. Both crises are expanding and escalating. The bubble has burst, his bluff has been called, the emperor has no clothes – and there is no denying that Trump, by alternately appeasing, excusing and encouraging the two foremost villains of these twin tragedies, is great...

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2 w. ago ‘You’ve got to go easy on Trump’: Fox host scolds Jesse Watters for saying Trump didn’t do much to change Cracker Barrel logo

Watters said he was ‘giving Fox credit’ for Cracker Barrel’s change of heart after ‘we covered this story for a week’

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