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Mallen Baker: Faultlines
'Dangerously reasonable' analysis on politics, science, and particularly the bit where they bump into each other. I aim to give an independent, fact-focused, non-ideological take on the issues that matter.
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- Mallen Baker: Faultlines
Trump Isolated As World Turns Against Him
Ever since he became president again, Donald Trump has been enthusiastically burning through any goodwill he might have had, or indeed that the United States…
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Trump’s Favourite Dictator Orban Lost BIG - What Next?
By all accounts, right up until the moment when Viktor Orban gave his concession speech, things were tense in Hungary's election. After 16 years of autocratic…
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Iran Negotiations Fail - Now Trump Is Really Stuck
It was all but inevitable that the talks were going to fail - Iran's position, as correctly described in the 10-point list reported publicly (despite the Trump…
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Trump Pakistan Talks, AI Danger, Orbán's JD Vance Problem | News Round-Up
The Trump team of crack negotiators head to Pakistan for talks, but will the Iranians even show up? Anthropic announces its new AI could basically hack all the…
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Trump Panics As World Notices He Lost Iran War
More and more world figures, leaders, commentators, are agreeing in public that the US seems to have lost the Iran war. And that includes oil company…
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Trump's Ceasefire Shows Iran Really Won This War
After all the fire and thunder, the deadline came, and it presented mostly as a feeble capitulation to the need for compromise. In spite of all the usual…
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Trump Threatens War Crimes In Holy War On Iran
Immediately after celebrating the rescue of a US airman from Iran, Trump launched into a tirade that was extraordinary even for him - where he threatened…
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Macron Calls Out Trump Bizarre Iran Behaviour | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday April 3rd 2026. After Trump's incoherent address to the nation the backlash against his war on Iran is widening…
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Trump Tied Aid To Minerals - Zambia Just Said No
The administration of President Donald Trump was quick to cancel USAID. But quietly since then, it has been reinstating some programmes - with a catch…
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Trump Threatens To Pull From NATO
Another day, another verbal twist from the President of War. Yes, now Trump is SO furious at all those Europeans who apparently care about international law…
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Trump Tells World Go Get Your Own Oil
President Donald Trump, who just yesterday was threatening to commit war crimes against Iran if it didn't open the Strait of Hormuz, is now on whiplash mode…
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Trump ‘Wants Iran’s Oil’ And Other Fantasies
The multi-faceted stream of consciousness from President Donald Trump about what he wants from the Iran war, when and how he might end said war, and more…
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Enabling Trump Has Turned Palantir Toxic
In principle, Palantir is just a company that helps governments to work smarter. In practice, it has embraced the absence of guardrails of the US…
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Trump's Bizarre Iran Fantasies Are Getting Weirder | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday, March 27th 2026. Trump declares that Iran negotiations, which seem mostly to be conducted between the voices in…
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The Iran War Peace Plans Are A Farce - But No-One's Laughing
Even though President Trump declared to the world that peace negotiations with Iran were advanced, and seeing agreement on most points of substance - today the…
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Can Trump and Putin Save Viktor Orban?
The election in Hungary is getting closer - and we've been seeing all the things we knew were coming - Trump's endorsement of Viktor Orban, related to CPAC…
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Trump's Bizarre Made-Up Iran Negotiations
President Donald Trump has form in claiming that he is in active negotiations with other leaders, or with countries, when the other parties deny any such thing…
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Why Trump’s Iran Whiplash Points To Growing Desperation
In the course of 24 hours, President Donald Trump went from saying that he was looking at 'winding down' the Iran war, to issuing threats to escalate the…
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Trump Blunders A Huge Energy Crisis Onto The World | News Round-Up
In this news round-up for March 20th 2026: Iran's strike on Qatar has triggered what energy analysts are calling an "Armageddon scenario" for global gas…
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How Trump’s America First Became America Alone
According to one of his best allies in the Senate, President Donald Trump is more furiously angry about having none of America's allies agree to join it…
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Trump Wants To Bury Bad News About the Iran War
In the last few days, the administration of President Donald Trump has been going hard after the media - any journals or networks that have reported the…
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Trump Threatens NATO: Help Now Or Regret It
President Trump told NATO allies, as well as countries like Japan, South Korea and even main geopolitical rival China, that they must send warships to help…
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Platform Just Blew Up In His Face
It's not a secret that Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, is not entirely like other AI models. Specifically, he has gone to great lengths to ensure it absorbs…
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US Ammunition Crisis As Iran Grows Bolder | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 13th 2026. Pentagon insiders reveal that Trump's war on Iran has burned through years of critical munitions…
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How The Massive Impact Of Trump’s War Is Hitting The Entire World
The alarm bells across the world are really starting to sound loudly now, as the short-term effects on the cost and availability of energy and fertiliser is…
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Peter Magyar vs Putin, Trump AND Orban | Hungary’s Crossroads
Today, the Financial Times reported on a leaked proposal for Russia to engage in a disinformation and influence campaign in support of the re-election of…
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Is Trump About To TACO Out Of Iran?
Trump has started talking in terms of the war being complete, and stressing that it was just an 'excursion' - a sign, according to stock markets and commodity…
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Why Trump's Iran Assassination Threats Are A Huge Deal
Even before Iran had announced the selection of its new Supreme Leader, President Trump and Israel had said they were intending to assassinate whoever it was -…
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China's Five Lessons From Trump's Iran War
Xi Jinping's China sees itself as the rising primary power in the world, soon to take over from the fading old empire of the United States. But it knows its…
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Kristi Noem Is Fired - For Making Trump Look Bad | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 6th 2026. The first of Trump's Cabinet Secretaries to be fired is Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…
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Spain Doesn't Mince Words About Trump's Illegal War
Most of the international community know that President Donald Trump's war on Iran, having been launched without any sort of imminent threat, having been…
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Trump's Leaked Plot to Take Over Elections Exposed
President Donald Trump has muttered darkly about the need to take federal control of the mid-term elections. And now, the evidence suggests that his team has a…
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Total IDIOTS Are Leading America’s War In Iran
War is a serious business. You would hope. But since President Donald Trump announced the start of the war against Iran, the US conduct has been typified by…
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Trump Just Demolished 80 Years of Global Order
There are seven ways that President Donald Trump has broken, or significantly altered, the US system, and the global political or economic system. Ways that…
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Trump Getting A Taste For War Is Not Going To End Well
President Trump has declared war - not a special military operation, not an in-and-out abduction. A full-on offensive assault with the stated goal of regime…
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Anthropic Stands Up To Trump Despite The Cost | News Round-Up
In this news round-up for the week of 27 February 2026: If 2025 was about corporate cowardice and capitulation to the Trump revolution, 2026 is seeing more and…
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Epstein Files And The Massive Gap In Accountability
Today saw Hillary Clinton being quizzed in Congress about the man she never met, while President Trump, who is all over the files, faces no such pressure. We…
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Trump Flailing And FURIOUS On His Way To State Of Union
Trump promised that the State of the Union address 2026 would be 'long, because there's lots to talk about'. Some of that talk is likely to be peevish…
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Trump’s Most Absurd Greenland Gambit - What’s Really Going On
In (yet another) moment of the truly surreal, President Trump announced this weekend that he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland to help with all the…
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Supreme Court Hands Trump His Biggest Defeat Yet | News Round-Up
In this news roundup of the week for Friday February 20th 2026. The Supreme Court strikes down President Trump's emergency tariffs in the single biggest…
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How Trump’s Autocrats Club Is Looking To Profit From Peace
Trump's Board of Peace had its first meeting today, and it was pretty much what you would have expected. Lots of praise for Trump, lots of big promises for the…
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Three Ways Reality Is Smacking Trump In The Face
It would be entirely possible for President Trump, or A.N.Other autocrat, to seek to dismantle the guardrails of democracy in their country and all the rest of…
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'Presidential' Rubio Demands Europe Falls In Line With Trump
Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke this weekend at the Munich Security Conference, and he made probably the most cogent and professional speech on…
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Will The Epstein Class Be Trump's Downfall? | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday February 13th 2026. As the Epstein Files revelations have continued to appear, the talk has turned to just how…
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NATO Heads To Greenland - It's NOT About Russia Or China
As the Munich Security Conference kicks off this year - the same one that was made famous last year thank's to JD Vance's speech telling Europeans to shape up…
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Trump's Latest Canada Attack - It's Not About The Bridge
President Trump has attacked Canada again, and this time said that he will prevent the opening of a new bridge between the two countries. And this is…
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How Europe Is Fighting Back Against Trump's America
Greenland was the pivotal moment. Before then, appeasement was the only game in town. But now, Europeans are increasingly joining Canadians in resisting…
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Trump’s Mid-Term Election Plot Is Getting Clearer | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday February 6th 2026, President Trump is getting very focused on the mid-term elections. We discuss what that’s…
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Epstein Scandal Threatens To Bring Down Britain’s Keir Starmer
Out of all the names that have come out in the latest massive tranche of Epstein files, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon, and all…
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Trump’s Abject Retreats Are Becoming Hard To Ignore | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for January 30th 2026 - Trump's string of humiliating retreats in recent days continued with this week's abject U-turn on the…
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Everything Trump Is Trying To Do Is Blowing Up In His Face - Here's Why
From the start of his second term, President Trump has been 'flooding the zone' with large numbers of major norm-breaking initiatives. The strategy was…
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Why NATO’s Trump-Crisis Is Splitting Europe In Half
European leaders have become clear post-Greenland crisis that Europe needs to disentangle itself from President Trump's America. But Mark Rutte…
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Why This Is A Huge Pivot Point For Trump's America
The yawning gulf between the claims made by the Trump administration after the shooting of Alex Pretti and the events shown by the video evidence widely seen…
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada over China deal
We already knew President Donald Trump was irritated that Canada's Mark Carney's speech got rave reviews at Davos. And that it plainly laid out - in words that…
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Trump’s Armada Heads To Iran - What Next? | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday January 23rd, 2026 - Trump's America has a major armada of military force currently heading for Iran. Trump says…
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Trump's Greenland Deal Creates Chaos and Uncertainty
So Trump did a complete U-Turn on Greenland, and everything is now all right again. Right? Well, not so fast. Why hasn't this detail been written down, and how…
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Trump’s Reluctant Greenland Climbdown - As Mark Carney Steals Show At Davos
The Trump administration has stormed the World Economic Forum at Davos in force - and his senior lieutenants, such as Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent have…
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Trump’s Nobel Prize Snub Means All Bets Are Off On Greenland
President Trump told Norway that because - in his mind - the country snubbed him for the Nobel Peace Prize, now he believes he no longer needs to only be about…
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Greenland Tariffs Have European Leaders Ready To Give Up On Trump
Yesterday, Trump made good on his threats and announced new tariffs to be levied against eight European countries for daring to defy his wish to annex…
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Trump Grabs Peace Prize While Threatening War | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday January 16th, 2026: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado hands her medal to President Trump - and it's as…