A leaked impact assessment report from the the UK government has shown that in all three possible outcomes from departure from the EU will have a negative economic result. So with the three options: 1. No deal which the report suggests economic growth would be down 8% over 15 years 2. A free trade deal […]
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US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November’s election. “Well, we’ll have to see what happens,” the president told a news conference at the White House. “You know that.” Mr Trump also said he believed the election result could end up in the US Supreme […]
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The number of cases of Covid-19 is doubling ‘roughly every seven days’ and could see 50,000 new cases every day by mid-October, the government’s chief scientific advisers warned yesterday. There were further 4,368 cases in the past 24 hours in the UK, up from 3,899, with 11 further deaths. In response to these terrifying figures […]
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In an interview with Fox & Friends Trump recently cited Austria and other European countries as models of good forest management that US states like California, which has seen devastating wildfires lately, should learn from. A regular on Fox News, Trump said: “You look at countries, Austria, you look at so many countries. They live […]
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The repercussions from the Trump administration’s violent clearing of demonstrators in Lafayette Square in order to make way for the president to take a photo with a Bible, without irony, continues. According to sworn testimony from a D.C. National Guard major shared with the Washington Post, federal officials began stockpiling ammunition to potentially use against demonstrators on June […]
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After sustained criticism from Donald Trump including being accused of bias against him by name Andrew McCabe has stepped down. To put this into context this is a situation whereby due to pressure from Donald Trump and other Republicans the No.2 law enforcement officer has quit abruptly. It would appear that this is due to […]
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Donald Trump has threatened that his administration will address the ‘very unfair’ trade policy towards the USA by the EU. This has been meet by the European Commission stating it will ‘react swiftly and appropriately’ to what can only be considered the threat of a trade war. His protectionist agenda is something he prides himself […]
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Whilst deftly avoiding the clearly off topic Russia investigation climate change was however discussed. Here’s Donald Trump the president of the United States talking about climate change: “There is a cooling, and there’s a heating. I mean, look, it used to not be climate change, it used to be global warming. That wasn’t working too […]
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Although there has been a war of words between North Korea and the USA over the testing of ballistic missiles there may be some cause for optimism. Tougher sanctions imposed as a result of the tests seem only to have angered Kim Jong-Un. A situation made all the worse by the trading of insults and […]
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Blastoise today held a Pro-Brexit rally saying enough was enough. The vote on Brexit “seems like a distant memory’ said Blastoise stating that there was also neither “style nor substance” to the negotiations. Further adding that both Theresa May and David Davis appear to be completely ineffectual. With many brexiters suggesting walking away from the […]
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