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David Cameron

July

The MAGA and Brexit movements disobey the commonsense rules of economics.

Economic logic always trumps junk politics

Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.

  • Craig Emerson
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after acknowledging Labour had won the election.

The Conservatives imploded. Labour simply filled the vacuum

Labour’s landslide shares some parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 win but those end with Keir Starmer’s small target strategy and threadbare policy.

  • Michael Turner
The Conservative government has sowed the seeds of its own downfall.

Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories

Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

June

A Palestinian child searches for usable items among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City.

Israeli business leaders push for elections

A forum of Israel’s top 200 business leaders is calling for early elections “to save Israel from a deep economic crisis”.

  • Marissa Newman and Galit Altstein
Riot police clash with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong in January 2020.

Crosby Textor advised pro-Beijing HK officials

The Australian political consultancy provided advice used by pro-Beijing officials in Hong Kong ahead of the start of national security laws that dramatically curtailed free speech.

  • Kylar Loussikian
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May

Lex Greensill.

Lex Greensill alleges his UK pursuers were protecting David Cameron

The fallen Aussie financier alleges a media leak by Britain’s Insolvency Service, which is seeking to ban him as a company director, was politically motivated.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

April

Christopher Cash arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court ahead of a hearing over allegations of spying for China.

Why China’s spies are being caught all over Europe

A flurry of arrests this week reflect the continent’s newly toughened response to Beijing’s espionage activities and political meddling.

  • Andrew Higgins and Christopher F. Schuetze
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

‘It is clear the Israelis are making a decision to act’

Britain’s foreign secretary David Cameron acknowledged during a visit to Israel that an Israeli reprisal seemed inevitable.

  • Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Michael Levenson
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets

Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.

  • Edward Luce
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Like Biden, Labor is on its own Israel journey

Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq

  • Updated
  • James Curran
A photo that Zomi Frankcom sent her family just before her death this week.

Biden vents ‘outrage’ over deadly Israeli strike on aid workers

The incident drew widespread condemnation and ratcheted up pressure on Israel to ease the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza after six months of war. 

  • Updated
  • Nandita Bose

March

AUKMIN gathering: Penny Wong, David Cameron, Anthony Albanese, Grant Shapps, Richard Marles

A British friend with important lessons for Australia

The UK is a good strategic partner for us. It is also a public policy laboratory for what works – and what does not.

  • Alexander Downer
Defence Minister Richard Marles (centre) with Foreign Minister Penny Wong, UK Foreign Secretary David  Cameron, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, UK Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps and US ambassador Caroline Kennedy in Adelaide on Friday.

‘Dangerous world’: AUKMIN talks call out Chinese coercion

Security in the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic regions are inseparable, Australian and British ministers say.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Tillett
Police officers stand guard outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong.

‘Raided, arrested’: Hong Kong security law threat to Western business

The measures, which further tighten national security laws imposed by Beijing in 2020, fuelled concerns about Hong Kong’s future as Asia’s business hub.

  • Updated
  • James Warrington and Sarah Newey
David Cameron and Lex Greensill in Saudi Arabia in January 2020.

Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’

The details of the Australian businessman’s claim against the UK’s Department for Business and Trade have not yet been made public.

  • Rafe Uddin and Cynthia O’Murchu
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February

A vigil for Russian activist Alexey Navalny in Munich, Germany.

Navalny’s allies accuse Russia of murder cover-up

Police arrest hundreds of people at spontaneous memorial gatherings in Russia for the jailed opposition activist and Putin critic who died suddenly.

  • Emma Burrows
The first test of a hydrogen bomb using nuclear fusion by the US during the Cold War in 1952.

Why are we talking ourselves into Armageddon?

Western leaders and commentators are increasingly talking of World War Three, but they may be overestimating the strengths of Russia, China and Iran.

  • James Curran

January

Maersk said it would suspend shipping through the Red Sea again after the two attacks on its freighter.

Iran sends warship to Red Sea as tensions escalate

Iran’s foray into the Red Sea a day after the US action compounds a highly volatile situation in the channel that handles about 12 per cent of the world’s commerce.

  • Sam Dagher and Arsalan Shahla
John Pilger, pictured in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2003

John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84

John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.

  • Telegraph Obituaries

December 2023

Heavy security for the first day of the Jimmy Lai trial.

Landmark national security trial of media mogul opens in Hong Kong

The closely watched case is widely seen as a trial of press freedom and a test for judicial independence in the Asian financial hub.

  • Kanis Leung

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