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3 weeks ago | 
theunionjournal.com | Joe Killer |Katya Adler |Stephen McDonell |Chris Mason
The new trade tariffs introduced by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday are anticipated to have a significant global effect and have faced criticism from the European Union and other major US allies. However, the latest import tax measures might receive a different reception in China, where the leader could perceive them as advantageous. In this piece, BBC reporters from five major economies explore the implications of these announcements in their respective regions.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Mason
The government is preparing to face the biggest protest yet over its domestic policy agenda since Labour won the general election. It is the week where farmers are heading for Westminster - and bringing some noisy and influential friends with them. Among those expected on Tuesday is the country’s most well known but relatively new-ish farmer, Jeremy Clarkson.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Chris Mason
Donald Trump's win is complicated for the UK, because of the president-elect's wild unpredictability. The world is going to ask over and over again for the next four years, 'what will he say or do next'. Right now, in foreign ministries around the world, including in London, hypothetical game plans for this scenario are becoming the real deal. The prep has been done. But the prep may only count for so much.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Mason
This was a huge, change-making budget. Don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t much difference between the main parties at Westminster. This was a Budget with Labour’s instincts and worldview stamped throughout it. There are the tax rises visible from near-earth orbit, the self imposed borrowing rules shredded and re-written - to allow more borrowing - and big wads of spending for the NHS, just for starters.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Mason
“To everyone’s astonishment, the vulgar insurgent has won!”So wrote a British foreign minister in his diaries on 9 November 2016 after Donald Trump unexpectedly beat Hillary Clinton to the White House.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Chris Mason |Paul Twinn
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has played down the significance of alleged interference by the Labour Party in the US presidential election. The Trump campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington seeking an immediate investigation into alleged "blatant foreign interference".
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Chris Mason
Chris Mason - Political editorSeptember 4, 2024 at 1:31 AM·2 min readThe bottom of the hugely crowded inflatable boat ripped and fell out, plunging people into the sea. This, I am told, is what happened, early on Tuesday morning in the English Channel, with devastating consequence: at least 12 people dead, among them children and a pregnant woman. People crossing the Channel in small boats is an issue at once human, moral, practical, political and diplomatic.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
homeofscience.net | Shazir Mucklai |Chris Mason
The Ukrainian leader tells the BBC in an exclusive interview that he is willing to work with anyone who is in power in the US. 39 minutes agoBy Chris Mason, Political editor • Sophie Williams, BBC NewsUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says working with Donald Trump if he is re-elected as US president will be “hard work, but we are hard workers”. In an exclusive interview with the BBC in London, Mr Zelensky said he is willing to work with anyone who is in power in the US.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Chris Mason
Europe must brace for decade of Ukraine war - Nato chiefEPAEurope must be prepared for a decade of Ukranian war, the outgoing secretary general of Nato has warned. Speaking to the BBC, Jens Stoltenberg said the "paradox" of the war in Ukraine is the longer the western military alliance commits to fighting the war, the faster a resolution will be reached. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
bbc.com | Chris Mason
Starmer seeks to turn promises into realityReutersWhen there is a change of government, there is a dizzying hokey cokey of changing job titles. Even if the winner of the election was not wildly surprising and even for those of us who spend our professional lives observing and scrutinising these folk, it can still catch you out. Suddenly, the person answering to "prime minister" is a different bloke from earlier in the month.
