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Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine and upends US foreign policy
It’s a bustling morning at the Dongmen wet market, in inner-city Taipei. Mr Yu is shouting at passersby, trying to offload his boxes of freshly steamed dumplings. In between customers, the self-professed “dumpling king” and his wife, Ms Liao, discuss Donald Trump.
“He’s very positive, energetic,” says Yu, handing flour-covered …
Don’t be fooled by Putin’s ‘imperialism dressed up as realpolitik’, Lammy warns
Nigel Farage dissents from Trump’s Zelenskyy ‘dictator’ claim
Nigel Farage has contradicted his ally Donald Trump, saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy “is not a dictator” after the US president’s attack on the Ukrainian leader this week.
Farage, who became one of the last UK party leaders to distance himself from Trump’s remarks, said he had been delayed in calling it …
Former leader of Reform UK in Wales charged with bribery offences
Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been charged with multiple bribery offences after an investigation led by the police’s counter-terrorism command.
Gill, 51, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, under the Criminal Law Act 1977, and with eight counts of bribery, …
The cameras weren’t rolling, so no one saw Lammy forget to tackle Dictators United | John Crace
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If the foreign secretary makes a speech to the G20 in South Africa and someone forgot to switch on the televised stream, did it really happen?
This was meant to …
Stop criticising Trump and sign $500bn mineral deal, US official advises Kyiv
White House officials have told Ukraine to stop badmouthing Donald Trump and to sign a deal handing over half of the country’s mineral wealth to the US, saying a failure to do so would be unacceptable.
The US national security adviser, Mike Waltz, told Fox News that Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr …
Priest insulted by Andrew Gwynne in WhatsApp group calls for him to resign
A serving Anglican priest has called for Andrew Gwynne to resign after new WhatsApp messages emerged in which the member of parliament suggested she should be “burned on a bonfire”.
She described the chat involving two Labour MPs, as well as several other Labour party members, as “reminiscent of playground …
We need a debate on defence spending as Nato unravels, putting Europe at risk | Letters
With current and past leaders of the armed services joining the Americans in calling for ever greater percentages of national income to be devoted to defence, some hardheaded thinking is going to be needed (
Starmer will go in ‘bin of history’ if he fails to raise defence …
Rachel Reeves should rewrite the rulebook on GDP growth | Letters
The Guardian view on Britain’s broken economy: ‘That’s your bloody GDP, not ours’, 13 February
), we are frequently reminded of the inadequacy of GDP growth as an objective, given that itincludes the money spent
on dealing with pollution, sickness, crime etc. But …Denying citizenship to refugees is cruel | Letter
It was good to see the Labour peer David Blunkett questioning recent
that states that people who have “made a dangerous journey will normally be refused citizenship” (Starmer union ally joins opposition to rules barring citizenship for small boat refugees, 16 February
).When …