Hans van Leeuwen

I wanted to meet the peerless @seatsixtyone and find out what makes him tick ... so we took a rather extraordinary train ride together. Meet the train fanatic making global rail travel a whole lot easier https://t.co/VTQyOfRbLB

Aristocrat's battle in Britain, where the buffalo roam... Aristocrat takes gaming groups to UK court over Buffalo brand https://t.co/MX315AdqFX

A century ago, London's Dagenham went through a building boom that saw its population increase tenfold in a decade. Now the builders are back... including the Aussies. Inside Macquarie’s $237m punt on the east London riverside https://t.co/x3IbJzAC6b

Yesterday's Trump-Putin call was more innocuous than expected, perhaps - but it's where things might go next that has Europe fearful and NATO on the rocks. Trump’s deal with Putin will terrify the West https://t.co/leYUU5DBcc

A veteran of the Perth mining scene is sitting right at the heart of two of Trump's biggest geopolitical interests: Greenland and Ukraine. This Perth entrepreneur is surfing the Trump wave https://t.co/X8W1WP0MSu

Even Ireland cops a blast of Trump’s Oval Office wrath https://t.co/KYYFV5F4s1

The Russian president is at a crossroads in his quest to reconquer Ukraine. How he responds will reveal if he’s a cunning card sharp or a delusional dreamer. https://t.co/4oVRzJkU6I

Canada, Europe or Australia-UK? The three playbooks for responding to Trump's tariff assault. Starmer follows Albo not Europe as UK responds to Trump tariffs https://t.co/LoLJNeSE5P

US resumes military support for Ukraine as talks yield ceasefire plan https://t.co/K20Xdcz0rW

The Trump carousel goes round again? Zelensky ‘ready to work’ with Trump to secure peace deal https://t.co/jTUFJDtAn8

Why is JD Vance trying to undermine the idea of the Europeans defending Ukraine? It's because he can see that if Zelensky and the Europeans don't roll over, the US doesn't get to call the shots -- Putin does. This fits the analysis I wrote on Sunday night https://t.co/29ZAWaXrVU

Trump says Zelensky has a bad hand. But he still holds an ace https://t.co/29ZAWaXrVU

Starmer, Macron seek to wrest Ukraine initiative back from Trump https://t.co/CHJCjJmRqh

As Trump sides with Putin, Europe’s urgent race to rearm https://t.co/bYjjokHwMQ

Don’t like Trump’s $8m ‘gold card’ visa? Try Europe for $413,000 https://t.co/XoKfzfT8fV

Here's my attempt to make sense of the week. Was Trump being strategic, tactical or just impulsive? And what should Europe do about it? Trump has smashed the Western alliance. Here’s what could happen next https://t.co/kKw6K3bcZe

Donald Trump has launched a blistering broadside against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, raising fears that the White House plans to end the three-year-old war on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms. https://t.co/0hWlutE9wH