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Jamie Timson

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News Editor @TheWeekUK and panellist @WeekUnwrapped, former Government press officer

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  • 3 weeks ago | theweek.com | Jamie Timson

    Over 20 years after receiving his OBE, David Beckham is set to finally receive a knighthood in the King's birthday honours. The former footballer, who turned 50 last month, will be knighted after having "struck up a firm friendship with King Charles", reported The Sun. One thing is for sure, Beckham has "certainly put the hours in" said Alexander Larman in The Spectator.

  • 2 months ago | theweek.com | Jamie Timson

    Donald Trump famously Tweeted that "trade wars are good, and easy to win". But investors "think otherwise" – and Trump has now "decided maybe investors are right", said The Wall Street Journal. Faced with a sell-off in US government debt, Trump has announced a 90-day pause on most tariffs for every country, except China. And, in doing so, he has "acknowledged, however reluctantly, the harsh realities of economics, foreign policy and domestic politics", said The Washington Post.

  • Mar 21, 2025 | theweek.com | Jamie Timson

    The Office for National Statistics has had to delay the release of trade data due to errors in its analysis – the latest setback for the beleaguered government agency. The delay of the trade data, announced with one day’s notice, "will fuel questions over the reliability of figures produced by the ONS", said the Financial Times, after long-running problems with its key Labour Force Survey.

  • Mar 13, 2025 | theweek.com | Jamie Timson

    NHS England is being abolished under plans announced by Keir Starmer today aimed at centralising control of the national health service. The arms-length body is being axed to "cut bureaucracy" and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control", the prime minister said. The creation of NHS England in 2012 by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government "created burdensome layers of bureaucracy without any clear lines of accountability".

  • Jan 31, 2025 | theweek.com | Jamie Timson

    A number of development programmes and relief assistance efforts around the world have come to a halt this week after President Trump froze all foreign assistance provided by the United States, calling into question the future of foreign aid around the globe. Even "the most fervent advocates" of US aid can see that not all programmes work well, Rachel Bonnifield, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, told Al Jazeera.

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