Tag: trump
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Letter from Lincoln…April 2026
This week’s annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington DC, USA, has set the tone for the geo-economic news, with the meeting itself overshadowed by the ill-advised American-led war in the Middle East.
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: February 2026
February has brought the start of a new year – the fire horse of the lunar calendar – but the same problems. The Ukrainians have marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion attempt. Pakistan has declared ‘open war’ on Afghanistan. And the Americans are continuing to move military assets, including two aircraft carrier…
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:January 2026
So, the end of January. It’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses but the Delorean has been fired up and we’re all heading back to the future, like it or not, courtesy of the US and its President, one Donald J Trump.
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…May 2025
May has been another month of mayhem, mostly courtesy of one Donald J Trump but backed up with a supporting cast that includes Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and various other actors searching for a role. The fact that most of these crackpots won power through elections – to varying degrees – suggests that civil governance…
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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.
