Rashmee Roshan Lall

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Two books and four bite-sized items flavoured with this moment

1 week ago | rashmee.com | Rashmee Roshan Lall

Canada…Australia…England. Three elections where the Trump effect was discernible in some way. In Canada and Australia, it was about rejecting politicians who parroted Donald Trump’s rhetoric and policy prescriptions. But in England, people voting for their local authorities (and a few mayors) appear to have embraced a discernibly Trumpian party. The Reform UK party, led by Trump ally Nigel Farage, won big in the May 1 local elections.

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The landslide re-election of Australia’s Labor government makes Anthony Albanese the country’s first prime minister to win re-election for two decades. Momentous too to consider that an Australian opposition leader has been unseated for the first time in 125 years of federal elections. Australia becomes the second country in one week to respond to America’s MAGA politics by rejecting leaders who modelled themselves on Donald Trump.

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Donald Trump may fancy himself a king but it’s fallen to an actual monarch (of Britain and Canada) to show up the vulgarity of his pretensions. Mr Trump is just not subtle enough to have majesty and can never be seen as a majestic figure. Consequential, yes. Threatening, yes. Frightening, yes. But not majestic.

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Everyone’s been so preoccupied with the Ukraine war that Donald Trump’s deadly assault on the Houthis in Yemen has gone almost unnoticed. For six weeks now, America has been using “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthis, to quote the grand order issued by President Trump. This, from the man who promised he was going to be a president of peace, the one who was “going to stop wars”.