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Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse | Heather Stewart
When Donald Trump gave an in-flight press conference en route to the Super Bowl last week, it generated a flurry of news, from the fresh threat of steel tariffs, to the declaration of, “Gulf of America day”.
Much less remarked upon was a throwaway comment about the US’s financial obligations, …
Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions
Political tensions are redoubling Canada’s great hockey anxiety
As usual, Canadians approached the latest international hockey tournament, the 4 Nations Face-Off, with worry. Despite top-tier talent and historic winning pedigree, the feeling that Canada could be off its game is a perennial concern. But in 2025, it is particularly profound – mostly because of the Americans.
Since the …
Most of UK’s big build-to-rent developers owned by foreign private equity firms
One of the UK’s fastest growing property markets is dominated by corporate landlords focused on providing homes for couples and singles, excluding many families with children, according to a thinktank report.
constructs one in five new homes – including almost 30% of new …‘Winning, losing, I wasn’t fussed’ – Adrian Lewis on quitting darts and hopes for a comeback
“The thing with darts,” explains Adrian Lewis, “is you have to be in a happy place. It was for me, anyway. When you’re up, everything’s free, everything’s flowing. You don’t feel like you’ve got a burden on yourself.”
And when Lewis was free, when the darts flowed from his hand …
‘They may be Russian some day’: was this the week that changed the war in Ukraine?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up there with the worst of them.
an hour-long interview with the
Guardian
at his Kyiv offices
, the Ukrainian president was in a …Hoop dreams in peril as British basketball’s crisis reaches boiling point
From an outsider’s perspective, British basketball has never had it so good. It is firmly established as the second most popular participation team sport in the country with more than 1.5 million people playing at least twice a month. In December 2024 the sport received a combined £4,475,000 in two …
Trump has left a void that the EU and Britain must fill together | William Keegan
In July 1817, Lord Amherst, the leader of a British delegation to China, stopped on his return journey at Saint Helena and met the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte.
Napoleon had seldom been out of the news, but Amherst himself was also in the news for having pointedly refused to kowtow when …
As the US walks away, Europe needs to step up for Ukraine. But does it have the will?
After three years of Russia’s attempt to occupy and annex Ukraine, the country continues to put up a fierce resistance.
Russia is suffering more than 1,500 casualties a day and only slowly taking ground. But the Ukrainian army is also being put under immense pressure.
As the opening moves are …
Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis and all are unthinkable
When Rachel Reeves stood up in the House of Commons on budget day on 30 October as this country’s first woman chancellor, she was brimming with pride: “To girls and young women everywhere, I say: Let there be no ceiling on your ambition, your hopes and your dreams.”
Four months …