Tag: trump
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…April 2025
April, as the poet TS Eliot noted, is the cruellest month. Markets around the world have been have been thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump’s trade war, while in Britain the month started with a triple whammy with sharp rises in council tax, energy bills and water rates…
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…March 2025
The fundamental problem of publishing a summary of all the March madness on 1st April is that it’s going to read like an April Fools story, but the joke is very much on the rest of us.
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…January 2025
January has brought with it violent storms in Europe, wild fires in California, a new conflict in the DRC, not to mention the continuing war in Ukraine, and a strong sense that somewhere the four riders of the apocalypse are busy saddling up their horses.
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…November 2024
Despite a busy round of news headlines, from multiple conflcts to violent storms, November has mostly been about the calm before the storm, the sharp intake of breath, the oceans receding before the giant tsunami wave comes rushing back at us.
