44 h. ago Lula threatens 50% tariff on US goods in retaliation for Trump levy on Brazil

Brazilian president says ‘if he charges us 50%, we’ll charge him 50%’ after Trump cited trial of Bolsonaro to justify tariffBrazil threatened to hit back against Donald Trump’s plan to introduce 50% tariffs on its exports with its own 50% tariff on US goods, setting the stage for a precipitous trade war.“If he charges us 50%, we’ll charge him 50%,” Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, told local news outlet Record, a day after Trump threatened to impose steep duties on Brazilian goods and accused the country of conducting a “witch-hunt” against its former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is facing a trial over his attempt to overturn his 2022 election defeat. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Trump slaps 50% tariff on Brazil as punishment for 'witch hunt' trial against ex

Trump fired off a furious letter to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday laying out the details of his new tariff.

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64 h. ago Keir Starmer accused of surrendering British veterans of the Troubles to face legal persecution from group of 'politically motivated lawyers'

Sir David Davis urged the Prime Minister to think again about the decision to repeal the Northern Ireland Legacy Act, which was designed to end the witch-hunt against British veterans.

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4 d. ago Voices: It’s time football clubs paid the price of policing matches

The head of the Met is is right that taxpayers shouldn’t be paying the than £70m-a-year cost of match-day policing, says Chris Blackhurst – the filthy-rich Premiership clubs and their billionaire owners should be footing the bill

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7 d. ago Special forces chiefs unite to demand an end to Labour's legal witch hunts against veterans

The heads of the UK's three most elite military units have said 'enough is enough' in an unprecedented move to stop legal witch hunts against veterans.

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8 d. ago Former senior police officer who was found with child abuse on her phone is SUING the Met after 'witch hunt destroyed her'

Ex Superintendent Novlett Williams is now taking the force to an employment tribunal, accusing it of racial and sexual discrimination, harassment, and victimisation.

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1 week ago MPs hail Mail's Stop The SAS Betrayal campaign to halt the hounding of Troubles veterans from witch hunts

Tory frontbencher Mark Francois said a parliamentary petition 'supported by the Mail' had more than 160,000 signatures, triggering a Commons debate on July 14.

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3 w. ago Voices: It’s time every police force atoned for its homophobic witch

The formal apologies issued by 21 British chief constables for historic homophobia have strengthened community and trust, says Independent Pride List honoree, Peter Tatchell. But 24 other forces aren't seeing why this is so crucial

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3 w. ago Voices: It’s time every police force atoned for its homophobic witch hunts 

The formal apologies issued by 21 British chief constables for historic homophobia have strengthened community and trust, says Independent Pride List honoree, Peter Tatchell. But 24 other forces aren’t seeing why this is so crucial

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3 w. ago ‘Artists struggled to survive’: the devastating impact of blacklisting Americans

A new exhibition looks back at the ‘anti-communist’ witch-hunt that affected many Americans, in particular the Hollywood TenThere’s no shortage of comparisons with the second Trump administration to the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany, but perhaps the more apt comparison is to the Red Scare in postwar America. Blacklisted, a new show at New York Historical, profiles the lives of the so-called Hollywood Ten, who were creatives caught up in the Communist witch-hunt – to disastrous consequences affecting their lives for decades thereafter. It brings to mind suggestive, and uncomfortable, parallels with politicized persecution in the US today.“At this point, TV was just beginning to become influential,” said Anne Lessy, an assistant curator who coordinated the show. “There was a lot of anxiety around these mass entertainments and how much power they had, in part because the second world war effort had been so successful in propaganda. A lot of the blacklisted artists were important in t...

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3 w. ago Kneecap plaster London with billboards ahead of "witch hunt" terror court appearance: "We will fight them. We will win"

Kneecap plaster London with billboards ahead of "witch hunt" terror court appearance: "We will fight them. We will win"  NME

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