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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
What Happens To US Democracy If MAGA Loses In 2028?
Let's say that the 2028 Presidential Election goes ahead, and Trump has imploded over the course of his term, so that regardless of their various attempts to…
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China’s Stark Warning To Trump And The West | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week, China stuns the West and infuriates Trump by expanding its tight control over more of its rare earth minerals - with…
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Trump’s Gaza Peace Deal Is Made Ridiculous By Hubris
It may only be the first part that will be implemented, but even so the Trump peace deal for Gaza represents - against all the odds - a real breakthrough. Both…
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Trump Shows EU That His Trade Deals Are Worthless
The US / EU trade deal was always tricky - within hours of it being signed the two sides were giving radically different interpretations of what it covered…
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Macron’s France Is Collapsing - And This Is Just The Start
French President Emmanuel Macron's fifth prime minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned after just a couple of weeks in post, as it became obvious that the task was…
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What A Judge’s Burning House Says About Political Violence in America
Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump administration recently, and got numerous death threats for her pains. Two days ago, her house burned down. At…
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The World Plays ‘Fantasy Trump Peace Deal’ In Gaza
The Trump 20-point peace deal for Gaza has been welcomed by all the people worldwide who routinely flatter Trump at every opportunity - but also by others…
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Putin SIDELINES Trump On Ukraine | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week, while testing Europe with drones, Russia's President Putin gives a major speech where he makes a substantial pivot in how he…
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Leaked Email Has Farmers FURIOUS On Trump’s Argentina Bailout
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had his email read by a cameraman with a zoom lens, and it exposed the fury going on behind the scenes over President Trump's…
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US Military Discovers It Is Led BY IDIOTS
Pete Hegseth insisted on bringing together the very top brass of all the US military into one room so he could ... lecture them on grooming. And the Warrior…
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Is MAGA Cruelty Becoming America's Face To The World?
The Ryder Cup made headlines this weekend - because the MAGA crowd barracked the opposing team, hurled abuse at the players, offensive insults at their wives…
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Why MAGA Gets Away With Blatant Lying And Hypocrisy
When President Trump and Stephen Miller argue that heated rhetoric encourages political violence, you might think it is a fair comment point of view. And yet…
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Trump's Shock Indictment of Former FBI Boss Comey | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week, we cover the Trump DOJ move at last to put into practice the boss's public instructions to get an indictment. Even if this…
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Why Trump’s Huge Pivot On Ukraine Is Not What It Seems
After his big moment berating the United Nations, President Trump met with President Zelensky and had things to say on the Ukraine war that nobody was quite…
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Kimmel Returns - But This Is Just The Start
Just when it looked like the Trump Administration could just demand whatever it wanted and all the institutions, all the corporations, all the politicians…
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The Terrifying Future Of AI-Powered Digital Surveillance
We all know about China's surveillance state - it's pretty terrifying, but it was built more or less from the ground up to suit the authoritarians. Every other…
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Did Trump Just Make The Misstep That Will Bring Him Down?
The Charlie Kirk memorial today marked the inflection point that MAGA believes the event of his assassination represented. As a result, the administration has…
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How Trump Is Going Full Out To Stay In Power | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week - In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Trump team has been acting quickly on its intended crackdown on…
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Why The Jimmy Kimmel Firing Crosses A HUGE Red Line
As we already anticipated, the aftermath of the shooting of Charlie Kirk is seeing a wave of increasingly audacious action by the Trump Administration to crack…
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Has The World Really Given Up On Climate Change?
As the COP30 climate conference approaches, it's hard to ignore that a backlash against climate policy - and a scepticism in some quarters about climate change…
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How Dark Is The Trump Crackdown Going To Get?
The Trump Administration is full of talk about the crackdown they will be bringing in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. President Trump has…
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How China Is Making Trump Squirm On Tariffs
The US and Xi Jinping's China have been conducting more trade talks - and today it was announcement that maybe they'd reached a deal ... on TikTok. Meanwhile…
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Q&A: Is It Time For Europe To Give Up On Trump?
In this Q&A video I cover Europe giving up on expecting Trump to play a part in Ukraine peace process, predictions for our polarised societies - is this here…
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Will Trump Get His Far-Reaching Retribution? | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday September 12th 2025 - The fall-out from the assassination of Charlie Kirk continues, and the Trump team are…
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America's Downward Spiral With Political Violence
The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk has jolted America, but seems unlikely to provide the crisis moment that shocks the country awake to its catastrophic…
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Putin Tests NATO With A Dangerous Escalation
Russia sent a number of drones into Poland - the first major incursion into NATO territory that Russia has made in recent times. This provoked NATO forces to…
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JD Vance's Shocking Take On Venezuela Boat Attack
The concerns about the Trump Administration's summary execution of eleven people in a boat in international waters off Venezuela - alleged to be gang members…
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The Terrible Habit The World Is Picking Up From Trump
The stoics would tell you that you can't control what happens to you in the world, you can only control how you respond to it. Well, it turns out that having a…
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What Should Brits Do About Trump's State Visit?
Trump is coming to the UK in ten days time. And not just for any old visit, but for a 'very special' and 'unprecedented' second state visit. All the pomp and…
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Huge Trump Pivot On China Flagged By Leaked Document
We'd already picked up that Trump's America wanted to pull resources from Europe and the Middle East with a view to concentrating its full focus on its main…
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Trump Sides With Putin Against Europe | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week, Trump sides with Putin in blaming European leaders for his frustrations about the lack of progress in ending the Ukraine…
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Why MAGA Thinks The UK Has A Free Speech Problem
The leader of Reform UK and best bud of Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, testified to Congress yesterday and told Americans that the UK has a free speech crisis and…
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Trump’s Impotent Fury As China Exploits His Mistakes
China has been hosting an economic summit that brought together Russia, Indian and numerous other countries from the global south. And then it topped that off…
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International Tourists Avoiding Trump’s America
Back in May, we saw the numbers of visitors to the United States plummeting in the wake of President Trump's attacks on most countries in the world with his…
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If Trump Went Early, America Faces a Techno-MAGA Dictatorship
Lots of people have been speculating this weekend that maybe Trump has been out of sight because his health isn't good. That all seems overblown, but it did…
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Trump’s Presidency Is In Chaos After Tariffs Struck Down
If anything has defined Donald Trump's second term as president, it is his use of tariffs to bully the world into giving the US highly unequal trade deals. He…
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The World Is Turning On Trump's America | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week, countries are forming common-interest groups across the world to find ways to reduce their exposure to Trump's America and…
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How Trump Is Making Billions From Being President
You're not supposed to be able to use the Presidency of the United States in order to enrich yourself. Indeed, previous presidents provoked controversy even…
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Trump’s Spies Caught Out In Greenland Takeover Plot
We knew that Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had directed spies to go into Greenland as part of a covert influence operation. Now…
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How Trump Is Fixing America's Elections So MAGA Never Loses
We know all about some of the very public moves - gerrymandering in Texas, for instance. But across multiple measures - many of which are hidden in plain sight…
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How Trump’s Bizarre Anti-Science Cult Is Hurting America
The US used to lead the world in its innovation, including in energy and industry, and also in its medical advances. And that was because it invested in…
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Trump’s Ukraine Hypocrisy Exposed
It was just a couple of days ago that President Trump was telling us in no uncertain terms that Ukraine needed to be able to hit deep inside Russia to have a…
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Russia Is Laughing At Trump’s Peace Efforts
For just a few days, there was an illusion of real momentum arising from the Trump Putin Summit in Alaska, and the Zelensky Europeans meeting with Trump in the…
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Insults To China BLOW UP Trump’s Crony Capitalism Scheme
Trump's administration has started getting directly involved with businesses in the United States, especially those considered strategic. Up to, and including…
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Why Is Trump Punishing Only India For Buying Russian Oil?
Trump loves strong man leaders, and it used to be that he loved Narendra Modi as a result. They were great friends, the world was told, and so Modi thought…
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Why Trump’s Security Guarantee For Ukraine Is Worthless
There are two live issues being played out following the Alaska summit and the ensemble meeting at the White House. First, Trump's determination that there…
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Showdown! Europe And Ukraine Join Forces To Confront Trump
Following Trump's failure to hold the simple lines agreed with European leaders in advance of his summit with President Putin, the heads of the largest…
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Putin Completely Plays Trump For A Fool
The big summit meeting in Alaska finally took place. After being talked about, written about and speculated about for the preceding week, it turned out to be…
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China Is Playing Trump’s Game Better Than He Is
China continues to make the most of its near-monopoly on rare earth minerals and magnets - now it is telling businesses they are not allowed to build up a…
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America’s Allies Are Ditching the F-35 - Because Of Trump
In this highly uncertain world, with wars raging and tensions rising - many countries have committed to boosting their defence spending - and that includes…
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Trump's America Really IS A Banana Republic
A week ago, we were noting that President Trump fired the head of the statistics bureau that gave the world the bad news about US jobs growth. And we…
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Why Trump’s Alaska Summit with Putin Is Already a Disaster
The more that President Trump does his trademark freewheeling in the run-up to his summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the more it becomes apparent…
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Is Britain Falling Apart?
A growing number of rather vocal people, some with large platforms to amplify their message, are utterly convinced that Britain is in deep decline, on the…
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Trump’s Putin Summit Based On A Big Misunderstanding?
The Trump Putin summit has been confirmed to take place in the state of Alaska next Friday. But as more has come to light, it seems possible that the whole…
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Is Trump Bringing In The New Dark Ages?
The comforting line is that it's all just temporary. Sacking the scientists. Removing the research studies. Publishing anti-scientific conspiracy nonsense as…
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Will The Trump / Putin Summit End The War In Ukraine?
Suddenly, President Trump and Russia's President Putin are on course to have a face-to-face meeting, possibly as soon as next week. What changed? Was it the…
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Trump’s Epstein Diversion: What His ‘Revenge Plan’ Really Means
As he campaigned for re-election, Trump made it quite clear that part of his agenda was one of vengeance against all those he felt had wronged him - especially…
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There Are No Adults In The Trump White House
In his first time, President Trump was partly constrained by the so-called 'adults in the room' - people who could explain to him why some particularly mad…
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Is Elon Musk’s New Political Party Dead Already?
Elon Musk just got the first piece of good news he's had for a long time - a massive $30 billion bonus from the Tesla board if he stays with Tesla as CEO and…
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The Real Meaning Of Trump’s Nuclear Threat
President Trump claims he ordered two nuclear submarines to change their position in relation to Russia, in response to some inflated rhetoric from Dmitry…