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What Signalgate tells us about Iran

Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and...

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Freddy Gray

What Signalgate tells us about Iran

What Signalgate tells us about Iran

Remember Signalgate? It was quite the story, and worth revisiting now in light of Operation Epic Fury, the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and...

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‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired

‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too many...

thursday 10

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Will the Iran war propel Gavin Newsom to the presidency?

Will the Iran war propel Gavin Newsom to the presidency?

“I’m very angry about this war,” said Gavin Newsom, the California Governor, on stage yesterday. Newsom has a memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, to...

06.03.2026 10

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US politics / Operation Epic Fury is already tearing the MAGA movement apart

When President George W. Bush invaded Mesopotamia in 2003, everybody laughed at Comical Ali, the bespectacled Iraqi information minister who kept...

05.03.2026 9

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Operation Epic Fury is already tearing the MAGA movement apart

When President George W. Bush invaded Mesopotamia in 2003, everybody laughed at Comical Ali, the bespectacled Iraqi information minister who kept...

05.03.2026 10

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Why is Vance silent on Iran?

Twenty eight hours or so into the new war against Iran, and America’s Vice President J.D. Vance has yet to declare his support in public. His social...

01.03.2026 10

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Why is Vance being silent on Iran?

Twenty eight hours or so into the new war against Iran, and America’s Vice President J D Vance has yet to declare his support in public. His social...

01.03.2026 10

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Can Trump’s strikes topple the Ayatollah?

“We’re going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” said Donald Trump, as he stood at the podium in his white...

28.02.2026 10

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Can Trump’s strikes topple the Ayatollah?

“We’re going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” said Donald Trump, as he stood at the podium in his white...

28.02.2026 10

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Freddy Gray

Has the Supreme Court just ‘SCREWED’ Trump’s administration?

‘If the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this…  WE’RE SCREWED!’ said Donald Trump on Truth Social last month....

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Has the Supreme Court just ‘SCREWED’ Trump’s administration?

“If the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this…  WE’RE SCREWED!” said Donald Trump on Truth Social last month. ...

21.02.2026 10

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Freddy Gray

Has the Supreme Court just ‘SCREWED’ Trump’s administration?

‘If the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this…  WE’RE SCREWED!’ said Donald Trump on Truth Social last month....

20.02.2026 10

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What does it take to get fired from Trump 2.0?

How many right-wing parties do we really need? Keir Starmer doesn’t know how close his government is to collapse Inflation is down – but for how...

18.02.2026 20

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Will Trump ‘totally obliterate’ Iran’s nuclear programme – again?

12.02.2026 5

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Exclusive / Nigel Farage: Trump can still ‘sink’ the Chagos deal

20.01.2026 10

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These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland

18.01.2026 10

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Freddy Gray

These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland

18.01.2026 20

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Team Trump won’t stop at Venezuela

08.01.2026 20

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Why Trump captured Maduro

04.01.2026 20

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Why Trump captured Maduro

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Why does the American right take itself so seriously?

13.11.2025 7

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Can anyone stop J.D. Vance becoming president?

16.10.2025 10

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The Nobel snub won’t bother Trump

10.10.2025 7

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Turning point / Charlie Kirk and America’s fifth great awakening

22.09.2025 5

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‘Like a cockroach, I refuse to die’: a meeting with the Tate brothers

18.09.2025 8

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Mandelson’s Epstein problem is not going away

10.09.2025 10

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Was the Minneapolis shooting an anti-Catholic hate crime?

29.08.2025 10

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US / The return of Russiagate

06.08.2025 10

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Starmer’s disingenuousness on free speech won’t fool Trump

28.07.2025 10

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As Donald Trump declares peace, the war goes on

24.06.2025 7

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Who’s pushing Trump to be an Iran hawk?

19.06.2025 10

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The world that Elon Musk couldn’t conquer

29.05.2025 10

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What we know about the Israeli diplomat shootings in Washington so far

22.05.2025 10

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Is Pope Leo XIV part of the ‘Trumplash’?

09.05.2025 10

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US / Has Starmer managed to score a beautiful new trade deal with Trump?

08.05.2025 10

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US politics / Trump’s big gambles are paying off

02.05.2025 10

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Trump’s big gambles are paying off

01.05.2025 10

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Orange Swan vs Red Dragon / Why Liberation Day is all about confronting China

09.04.2025 10

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Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap

26.03.2025 10

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What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed

25.03.2025 9

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Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game

21.03.2025 20

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Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game

20.03.2025 10

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War in Ukraine / Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice

18.03.2025 8

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How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine

04.03.2025 6

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Chagos – the riviera of the Indian Ocean?

27.02.2025 6

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The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right

20.02.2025 10

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Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?

05.02.2025 10

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The many questions of the Washington plane crash

30.01.2025 20

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