During his recent Presidential election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of tariffs. The depth of this love was revealed by Trump’s…
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Ashis Banerjee ">Ashis Banerjee 0Over eight hours on 29 October 2024, more rain fell in parts of the Valencia region in south-eastern Spain than had in the…
The Autumn Budget Statement of 2024: Tax, Borrow, and Spend to Rebuild Britain
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Israel and Lebanon: The Shared and Troubled History of Two Neighbours
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The Chagos Islands Handover: Resolution of a UK-Mauritian Sovereignty Dispute
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The “novel coronavirus”, SARS-CoV-2, never went away and continues to multiply, mutate, and spread across the world. The XEC variant was thus first…