What lies ahead for the US economy? Brexit offers clues
Britain’s decision to raise barriers with its largest trading partners has broadly come to be seen as an act of economic self-harm.
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Top dog: Melbourne Borzoi dog wins best in breed at Crufts
Melbourne breeder Kay Sneath has realised a five decade dream to bring a dog to Crufts, and he won.
French economy is rudderless
President Emmanuel Macron has only himself and his imperious, Trump-like self-esteem to blame for the political morass he is in.
Are you ready for Australia’s next ‘Brexit moment’?
Anthony Albanese’s terminal inability to rise above his character failings has raised conservative hopes that the next Brexit moment may be a matter of months away. Trump’s victory in the US has raised conservative morale.
Fight on the right to be next Tory leader of UK opposition
Rank-and-file party members will now select a winner in a ballot that closes at the end of October, with the next leader announced on November 2.
Sex trap lured Irish MP to disrupt Brexit
The agent recruited to undermine European relations is still in the country’s parliament.
Respect, growth key to ‘reset’: leaders
Downing Street described as a ‘historic moment for UK-Ireland relations’ Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to Ireland on the weekend, the first by a British leader in five years.
Macron appoints former EU Brexit negotiator PM
Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister shows little sign of ending the political turmoil ignited by snap elections three months ago.
Macron names Barnier as French PM
French President Emmanuel Macron has named the EU’s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as new prime minister, following almost two months of political deadlock.
Farage’s Reform UK rises from thin air
Brexit champion Nigel Farage has declared he is ‘coming for Labour’ as he storms into parliament on his eighth attempt and his Reform party eats into Conservative votes.
Starmer’s to-do list ‘more a gigantic trunk of problems’
The Labour leader has six priorities to ‘change’ the UK following 14 years of Tory rule dominated by Brexit, a cost-of-living crisis and infighting.
Britain’s new PM is a man of his people
Don’t be fooled by the title – Sir Keir Starmer’s biographer says he’s a working class Labour man through and through.
Brexit’s a fiasco, so why isn’t Farage held to account?
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is all over the media and untroubled by accountability for the disastrous outcome of his project.
‘I felt like it’: Woman douses Farage with milkshake
Nigel Farage’s election campaign got off to a sticky start after a 25-year-old woman doused him with a banana milkshake in the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea | WATCH
Brexiteer Farage to stand in UK general election
He caused a political earthquake by demanding Brexit and now, in a shock announcement, Nigel Farage has taken leadership of Reform UK to ‘ginger up’ the UK election.
Why we really do need to talk about Brexit
Both parties plan to ignore our most consequential postwar decision during the election — that won’t help the country
Smiggle’s British boom improves demerger prospects
Stationery chain Smiggle is booming in the UK, giving retail billionaire Solomon Lew handy earnings as he mulls demerging it from his Premier Investments vehicle.
Peak woke: Why the progressive left is losing referendum wars
From Brexit to the voice, to Ireland’s recent referendum, the progressive left is losing big battles in the culture war.
NGV procures David Shrigley’s sarcastic sculpture
The National Gallery of Victoria has given a huge thumbs-up to the purchase of one of the United Kingdom’s best-known sculptures.
Chris Bowen, minister for fisheries?
Couldn’t Chris Bowen add fisheries to his portfolio so we all could enjoy cheap fish as well as ‘cheap’ energy?
Why AI could be humankind’s ‘last invention’
Ahead of his Australian tour, renowned philosopher and author AC Grayling delives into a family murder that still haunts him, why we should eat mealworms and the dangers of AI.
Bigotry against ‘racist’ ordinary folk same as Brexit
I recognise the elitist rage coming from the Yes camp on the voice. It’s the same rage that was directed at ‘ignorant’ people during Brexit.
Lew’s Smiggle UK writes up higher sales
The British arm of Solomon Lew’s stationery chain Smiggle has seen a rebound in sales after years of pain sparked by Brexit and the pandemic.
UK business: Brexit a failure
British companies are losing faith in the potential benefits of new free-trade deals as exporters say Brexit has done more harm than good.
Woke corporates risk bankrupting democratic ideals
The ‘debanking’ of Nigel Farage shows just how destructive progressive cancel culture is becoming.
Managing risk, morals and money
The scandal is a reminder of the tightrope banks must walk to manage potentially risky clients.
Farage slams minister’s Trump criticism
GB News television host Nigel Farage has condemned Australia’s cancel culture and questioned the calibre of parliamentary ministers following social media posts by Minister Clare O’Neil.
Such a raw sense of self (importance)
Feminist activist and Cambridge historian Victoria Bateman is known for protesting and even lecturing naked. She now seems to be manufacturing reasons to rip her kit off.
British economy, politics suffer slow poison of Brexit
It is now widely accepted that the UK is not only politically weaker in Europe but its economy has suffered significantly as a result of leaving the European Union.
Charles visits Germany in fence-mending EU trip
Charles’ first official foreign trip as King is part of the UK’s charm offensive with its European neighbours to move past years of feuding caused by Brexit.
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