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In a couple of hours, Bessent, Treas Secy, will address the IMF/WB. The White House expects him to praise Trump’s leadership every third sentence. But if he does, the meeting might collapse into giggles. How does he get out of this quandary?

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Great headline in the NY Review of Books; “I shot the tariff.”

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Gladys Knight & The Pips were a great band. Today’s televised US Cabinet meeting reveals that Donnie and the Pipsqueaks will never top the charts. Pam Bondi may be the worst back up singer in musical history, with somebody called Rubio not far behind

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One of the better signs at today’s very large DC protest

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Merely the latest horror. The US has fired the three aid workers sent to Myanmar (days) after the earthquake as they were inspecting the damage in Mandalay. I’d like to see that sniveling little runt Rubio explain that away, which of course he won’t

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This guy Lutnick is really like the Sputnik. He goes round and round a planet in circles on a cloud of hot air, oblivious to the forces of gravity. He denies markets can go down, as today, but will always rise, if in Trump we trust. Gawd help us

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Is there no mercy in Trump? Ten per cent tariff on My Marmite is more than I can take. And on McVities digestive biscuits too. How can civilisation survive?

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Gwen Robinson, FT foreign correspondent and editor, 1960-2025

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Has there ever been a worse US government?. I dare y’all to come up with even one. Not even Polk’s compares to this shambolic collection

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It’s often said Americans lap up bullshit with an English accent. I’ve just seen proof of this. Douglas Murray addressing a conservative conference here. An exercise in Rees Moggian conceit larded with spurious literary references - and so pleased with his own cleverness

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Colin Powell has been removed from the Arlington Cemetary online guide book on the grounds he was a DEI recruit. Colin Powell??????

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It is beginning to dawn on me that this bloke called Lutnick, installed in the normally harmless position of Commerce Secretary, may be the worst member of Trump’s cabinet, which is saying something. He makes that certifiable loony, Peter Navarro, look almost sane

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How is is possible that a president of the United States stands outside the White House and shills for a car made by his biggest billionaire donor. We are surely living in cloud cuckoo land. Anybody out there want a 2017 battered VW Golf wagon?

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It is a mystery why anybody takes Peter Navarro seriously. He is a joke among those who know anything about trade policies. But he is leading Trump up the garden path and we all will suffer

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Further signs of Trump/Hegseth ending civilisation by eliminating all references to DEI. Among the casualties- the Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima ( the plane was named after the pilot’s mother!) and Rosie the Riveter, great poster honoring female munitions workers

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This is surely the end of civilisation as we know it. Trump has appointed Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo ( two of the most partisan hosts on Fox) to the board of the Kennedy Center. Thank goodness next year’s run of Hamilton has already been pulled by the producers and Lin Manuel Miranda

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Can somebody please explain to me why the EU does not simply expel Orban’s Hungary? Or at least ban it from attending high level policy meetings like that yesterday on Ukraine?

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It’s important to remember that with Trump, Musk and their acolytes running govt departments that US official statistics can no longer be relied on. This covers Econ,immigration, health etc etc. what was once the lodestar of integrity is now inherently suspect

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Two minutes into Trumps speech, there have been 25 lies. I’m going to bed to read my Wallace Stegner

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I watched maybe 15 minutes of one episode of White Lotus and swore never to watch another second. My resolve may be tested tonight by Trump’s boast and rant to Congress ~ if there’s nothing else on, which there rarely is unless TCM has a good movie on

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For all those bien pensant wankers who said they were reassured that Marco Rubio would be Secretary of State, you got that dead wrong. He’s drunk on the KoolAid, reduced to pathetic posts praising King Donald to the skies doubtless written for him by some MAGA minion

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My anger has now subsided, slightly. All I will offer now is a considered opinion. That Oval Office performance by Trump was the most disgraceful public display I’ve ever seen from a president in over 50 years covering US politics. And don’t get me started on JuDas Vance

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The Oval Office fiasco with Zelenskyy proves beyond a doubt that Trump and, most definitely, that shit face Vance are on Putin’s payroll

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Afghanistan wins !!!! Afghanistan wins!!! It’s 1842 outside Kabul all over again!!!

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Went to Mr Henry’s on Capitol Hill yesterday to pay homage to the young school teacher I often heard sing there back in 1969. There is still a wooden sign over the bar: “Roberta Flack Trio. Tues thru Sat.” To be present at the creation of a great talent is very special. RIP Roberta Flack

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Wife, daughter, fire, dinner in Jumilhac le Grand. Unbeatable!

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You wanna know how low musktrump can low? It’s just cancelled the nugatory US support for KIND, which provides legal assistance to undocumented children caught in the immigration web. You could wish the worst on Stephen Miller, but you’d be better off sending KIND your money (SupportKind)

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Kathleen’s starter at Le Petit Boutary in Paris on Saturday - thinly cross- sliced leaks bathed in a creamy leek sauce dotted with red caviar. Superb. Took the mind completely off you know who

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Where I am tonight. Not actually in the chateau but tge picture was snapped outside our modest front door

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