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Nationalism, it turns out, is a difficult thing to export.
The BC Conservatives won big without embracing Trump’s brand of politics, writes @yuanyi_z 👇
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A Canadian election has exposed the limits of MAGA’s global appeal.
The Right can win without importing Trump’s politics, writes @yuanyi_z 👇
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Hillary Clinton wants to stack the Supreme Court with more judges.
Why are Democrats undermining the rule of law? @KyleSammin 👇
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"That's the debt trap"
@eurobriefing tells @freddiesayers that France faces a massive debt rollover next year; as rising interest rates drive up servicing costs past vital budgets, governments must issue even more debt to cover past borrowing, triggering a dangerous debt trap.
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A growing number of Democrats are proposing an expansion of the Supreme Court.
They are choosing partisanship over the rule of law, argues @KyleSammin 👇
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The Tories are once again Britain’s highest-polling Right-wing party.
Reform’s voters are beginning to abandon Nigel Farage, writes @DrDavidJeffery 👇
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The Tories have overtaken Reform in polling for the first time since January 2025.
Is Nigel Farage’s electoral coalition falling apart? @DrDavidJeffery 👇
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For years, Latin America has elected waves of Washington-backed candidates.
But President Lula’s shock re-election victory has halted the continent’s Rightward turn, argues @NickBurns 👇
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After losing in the first round, Brazil’s President Lula has won a shocking runoff election victory.
His triumph halts a string of successes for Trump-aligned candidates across Latin America, writes @NickBurns 👇
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I for one am optimistic about Britain's future. Our country has the capability not just to survive in our radically changing world, but to thrive in it. It has endured seven shocks in 18 years — two of which were self-inflicted — and yet it is still standing. Britain’s economy is clearly resilient. The question now facing John Healey is how to grow it.
The answer is AI. Love it or hate it, it doesn’t matter: because AI is “the thing” and trillions of dollars are being poured into it for good reason. It’s a transformative technology that is here to stay, whether or not the bubble surrounding it bursts, just as the railways and the internet outlived the bubbles that built them.
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Britain voted to take back control of its borders.
Restoring EU freedom of movement would undo that very promise, writes @peterfranklin_ 👇
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Many Israelis regard the upcoming election as critical, perhaps the most consequential in the country's history. Arab voters, whose theoretical electoral weight exceeds 20 seats in the 120-member Knesset, largely share the goal of the Jewish opposition's so-called “change bloc”: to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bring down the most Right-wing government in Israel's history.
With the polls suggesting a closely fought election, Arab voters could emerge as the Jewish State’s ultimate kingmakers — with consequences that could transform not just the Knesset, but Israeli society as a whole.
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Labour says it has learnt the lessons of Brexit.
So why is Andy Burnham floating a return to the very policy that helped make Brexit happen? @peterfranklin_ 👇
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France is in the grip of social breakdown, with financial chaos looming. The urgent question now is: could it spread? A leading expert on Europe and its discontents, @EuroBriefing explores how the next debt crisis might start — and how it could both destroy the eurozone and scar Britain’s economy.
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over at @unherd, I wrote about how nobody can resist that prediction market money, not even middle-America chroniclers Danny McBride and Shane Gillis. The ad is amusing, but the cost of their grabbing that bag falls on the rest of us unherd.com/newsroom/shane-gi…
Celebrity endorsements have helped make sports betting part of everyday American life.
Now the industry wants to make betting on almost anything just as normal, writes @moustacheclubus 👇
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In the clashes on Durrës Street, I bumped into the Canadian-Albanian revolutionary activist Bora Mitrovica, who I had interviewed in the summer. You were right, I said to her, that the Flamingo protests would soon turn violent. “I know my people,” she replied, “I’m just surprised it took so long.” But whether the protests will really force Rama to resign seems doubtful. Sources in the Socialist Party willing to criticise Rama have gone silent, waiting on events.
Seemingly wavering last weekend, the state’s use of coercive power has since become stronger and more confident, hampering the ability of the protestors to gather or hold their ground. The protestors’ appeals to claimed European norms on humane crowd control also suffer from comparison to the riots, and robust policing methods, now seen in France and Italy.
With Rama directly linking the violence in Tirana with the riots in Western Europe, it is perhaps unfortunate timing for anti-government Albanian activists that their uprising has been overshadowed by events in the EU’s heartlands.
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Once upon a time, comedians worried about selling out.
Now Shane Gillis and Danny McBride are selling prediction markets to the masses, writes @moustacheclubus 👇
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