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  • 1 month ago | thespectator.com | Paul Wood |Benedict Kiely |Charlie Gammell |Daniel DePetris

    Imagine you’re MbS, newly installed as Saudi Arabia’s authoritarian ruler thanks to cunning and ruthlessness. You arrest a few of the most obvious thieves at court and hang them by their thumbs to find out where they hid the loot. You order your henchmen to grab critics of the royal family who fled abroad and bring them home to silence them. But one of those critics is cut into pieces with a bone saw in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and the Turks go public.

  • 2 months ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Charlie Gammell |Mary Wakefield |Ross Anderson

    He did it, Joe! Following on from the $79 billion worth of tariffs he implemented in his first term – which went largely untouched by Joe Biden’s Administration –  last night Donald Trump made good on his election promise to opt for another round of tariffs: this time, a 25 per cent tax on imports from Canada and Mexico, with China facing an additional 10 per cent levy on its goods.

  • 2 months ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Alexander Larman |Charlie Gammell |Mary Wakefield

    He did it, Joe! Following on from the $79 billion worth of tariffs he implemented in his first term — which went largely untouched by Joe Biden’s Administration — last night Donald Trump made good on his election promise to opt for another round of tariffs: this time, a 25 percent tax on imports from Canada and Mexico, with China facing an additional 10 percent levy on its goods.

  • 2 months ago | thespectator.com | Charlie Gammell |Ross Anderson |Juan P. Villasmil |Ben Domenech

    To talk or not to talk? This is the slogan that’s doing the rounds among the Islamic Republic of Iran’s politicians, hardliner and reformist. Donald Trump has made it clear he hopes that Iran might abandon their nuclear programme through a deal with Washington. This will, the President said, lessen the need for Israeli bombs to achieve the same end.

  • Dec 7, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Charlie Gammell

    There are unintended consequences, and then there are unintended consequences. What we are seeing in Syria, as Aleppo and Hama fall (and Homs braces itself) to a coalition of anti-regime forces whose DNA is to be found in al-Qaeda et al, is an unintended consequence of Israel’s bombardment in Syria of Iran-funded anti-Assad groups, and the pulverising of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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