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This Week In PMQs: Education and U.S. Intelligence

March 28, 2025 By Phineas Horan

Just before the Spring Statement, the government addressed questions on whether mobile phones should be banned schools. The House of Commons also debated intelligence with the United States following a security breach involving a leaked group chat from the White House.

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The Greatest Speech of Trumps Presidency Has Been Given – He Wasn’t Even in the Building

March 19, 2025March 19, 2025 By Oliver Keay

Senator Chris Murphy’s recent speech stands as a forceful condemnation of President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to subvert American democracy. Delivered in response

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Opinion: How to Turn Diplomacy into Reality TV

March 8, 2025March 8, 2025 By Abby Uffindell

When I saw the headline pertaining to the Oval Office last Friday I couldn’t quite believe it. Surely this was just classic clickbait

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The Tates Are Back in the States? 

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 By Amber Murphy

The Tate brothers have landed in the US after being held by Romanian authorities on charges of human trafficking, rape, and forming a

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Opinion: How US Federal Workers Have Found Themselves Inside an Episode of The Apprentice

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 By Amelie Singleton

These are policies you expect to hear from the historic regimes of the Gestapo and Stasi, not 21st century America.   

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This Week in PMQs: Defence, Ukraine and Trump 

March 3, 2025 By Phineas Horan

This week, Parliament wishes the PM good luck as he leaves for a meeting with President Trump to secure the future of Ukraine

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Opinion: Europe Must Act to Secure its Future 

February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 By Rhys Jones

Earlier this month at the 2025 Munich Security Conference, United States (US) Vice President JD Vance delivered Europe a stark reality check. In

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Opinion: Will the Policies of Trump’s Administration, Over the Next Four Years, Resolve Global Tensions or Make them Worse?

February 21, 2025February 20, 2025 By Antonia Heath

Donald Trump appears to be adamant that he holds the ability and power to end two of the conflicts gripping the world today: the Russo-Ukraine war

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US-Venezuela Relations: A New Chapter of Diplomacy and Tension

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 By Oliver Keay

The relationship between the United States and Venezuela has long been marked by political tensions, economic sanctions, and shifting diplomatic strategies. The two

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America First? America on its own: A Critical Examination of U.S. Foreign Policy Dysfunction

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 By Zhanserik Temirtashev

As a looming government shutdown over the debt ceiling threatens domestic stability, U.S. foreign policy finds itself at a crossroads, marked by increasing dysfunction and

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