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Trump will try to hide the impact of his idiotic tariffs just like the UK Conservatives hid the impact of their idiotic Brexit.

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The king is a pawn in the game of Trump.

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I'm not keen on suits and ties. I don't like the enforced conformity of this antiquated dress code. Suits don't impress me; it's the people inside them that matter.

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350 is a popular number with liars.

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Trump may be able to gaslight the American people but he can't gaslight the world.

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Anneliese Dodds must be a bit annoyed that her resignation has been pushed out of the news.

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We need to stop buying weapons from the USA. We can't rely on the US to keep them working (that includes our nukes). We need to leave the Five Eyes intelligence agreement. We can't rely on Trump to keep secrets from Russia. We need to treat American technology with the suspicion we apply to China,

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Live bullying. The meeting between Zelensky, Vance and Trump should have been followed by a help number.

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It's good to get some return from what we pay the king. It turns out that he's very useful when it comes to entertaining dangerous simpletons. Perhaps Andrew will be invited so that he and Trump can reminisce about Epstein's parties.

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Can you imagine what it would be like if it was Prime Minister Truss visiting Trump just now?

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In the future of our globalised world, when all of the 'races' have mixed, they will wonder what all that racism was about.

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If the US has got a golden goose with Trump's Ukraine rare earth metals deal then surely it has an interest in defending Ukraine from Russia. Trump doesn't seem to make this connection. Has he been given guarantees by Putin or is he just an idiot, or both?

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Cutting foreign aid will be popular with misinformed UK voters. It wasn't a hard choice for Labour; it was the wrong choice. Defence spending could be funded by taxing the very wealthy, which would be popular with both informed and uninformed voters. What's stopping them?

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For some strange reason Badenoch thinks that the Chagos Islands are on everyone's mind. She must have a very odd focus group.

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Are rare earth metals the new oil? Will we see countries with deposits becoming much richer and wars fought for their control? What would Trump demand from us if we were rich in rare earth metals?

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Trump isn't a 'deal maker'; he's a bully running a protection racket.

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How pathetic UK right wing politicians look when they talk about being respectful to Trump in order to avoid sanctions with their 'maybe the bully will be nice to us' line. It really is playground politics.

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Anas Sarwar has jumped on the wrong bandwagon when he said: 'I'll set up a Scottish version of Elon Musk's DOGE unit'. I hope he's clever enough to regret this ill-informed stupidity.

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The big question for UK defence is whether we defend Europe or our overseas territories. I don't believe that we can currently manage either with much credibility, so it would be foolish to continue trying to do both.

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Trumps next move?

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Trump's 'Gulf of America' thing is so childish. Did anyone care about the name before he brought it up?

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If the UK closes its last blast furnaces our defence industries would have to import the high quality steel needed for weapons manufacture. This would make us very vulnerable if we were ever in a war.

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Goodbye Land of the Free. It was nice knowing you.

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Victim blaming on a grand scale as Trump blames Ukraine for the war. I don't suppose that this is the first time he has used this strategy.

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Will Trump now blame Ukraine if the war continues?

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I think Trump would like to turn NATO into a protection racket; feudalism, with America lording over its European vassals.

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The 'slippery slope' is usually based on assumptions and is rarely a strong argument.

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So Trump isn't a reliable ally; the Kurds told us that back in 2019.

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Can the UK rely on American support to defend all of its far-flung dependencies? Is it time to stop pretending that we could do it alone and focussed our limited resources on defending Europe from Putin instead?

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We're living in a golden age for ignorant bigots.

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Does Trump understand what a trade war would do to inflation in the US or doesn't he care?

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It's interesting to see the return from America of clumsy words that we abandoned long ago; like 'gotten' and 'oftentimes'. Is this progress?

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Labour's display of nastiness with its show deportations is bafflingly stupid as well as unpleasant; there are nastier parties for people who like nastiness to vote for. Labour aren't getting those votes anyway so why play the nasty game? They will lose more support than they gain if they continue.

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Labour are behaving like they're still trying to win over swing voters for an election rather than a government with a big majority and plenty of time to prove themselves.

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AI will have to reduce its current enormous energy usage before it becomes commonplace.

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How many lies must the Telegraph print before it is no longer seen as a newspaper?

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I can't believe that Israel is complaining about the gaunt condition of their released hostages; who do they think has been stopping food from getting into Gaza?

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75% of USA rare earth metal imports come from China. The American technology and arms sectors would really suffer without this trade. Trump has extracted a deal from Ukraine for their rare earth metals and it explains his interest in Greenland, another source. He is preparing to antagonise China

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Get ready to be deluged by second rate AI generated books, music and artwork.

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Whoever gave Trump the game Risk for Christmas has a lot to answer for.

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Ed Davey looks like the adult in the room when he follows Kemi Badenoch at PMQs and Starmer shows him more respect than the Tories ever showed the SNP when they were the third party. I like it. It's constructive government.

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Reform would not be growing in popularity if we had a critical media. It reminds me of what happened with Brexit. We need press reform and replacements for the people in the BBC who have turned it into a state funded propaganda tool for the right wing. Misinformation is winning in the UK.

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It's a boom time for polling companies; so many polls are being commissioned so far ahead of the next General Election. Their results are fairly meaningless at this stage, but the right wing press are trying their best to say that they are terribly significant.

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