Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
The austerity illusion: unmasking the Labour government’s betrayal
Instead of responding to changed circumstances by adjusting policy, Reeves is using fiscal ‘rules’ as an excuse to force government departments to make even deeper cuts than she had already flagged, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference at the QEII Centre, London, November 25, 2024
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
RACHEL REEVES is planning to cut public services even more deeply than she had already trailed, according to government officials briefing the press, supposedly a response to the soaring cost of borrowing and the recent fall in the value of the pound.
Reeves has ruled out any increase in government borrowing or tax increases and claims the cuts are necessary because her “fiscal rules” are “non-negotiable” and a “red line” amid concerns that she will be unable to meet the arbitrary debt and spending targets she set herself as Chancellor.
Speaking on Reeves’s behalf, a Treasury spokesperson was explicit: “If we have to choose between raising taxes and cutting spending, we will cut spending.”
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