Otherweb Archive - Opinion - World

• Calling for growth is not the same as delivering it
• Is the government really igniting growth?
• How much corruption can MAGA stomach? Trump and Musk test the limit
• Cornell Students and Student Group Suspended for Disrupting Event
• Could there be a worse ‘envoy for girls’ than Harriet Harman?
• We know Nicola Sturgeon will stand down next year. But don't write her off just yet | Libby Brooks
• Globalist Games: They Play, We Pay
• From Churchill to Vance...Sounding Off About Tyranny
• Margaret Thatcher’s Lessons for Conservatism – Daniel Pitt
• Collaboration is key to ignition
• “There is still timefor a coherent growth strategy to emerge – but early signs are discouraging"
• Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy | Simon Jenkins
• Iâm all broken up about Mahmoud Khalilâs rights
• Creating art under Trump will become harder but it will remain vital | Seph Rodney
• Europe’s Paths to Future Population, Germany’s Election Results, US Tariff War Woes, and Chinese State Real Estate
• In the face of Hamas’s terrorism, choosing life is essential
• The SNP has entered a new, more serious era
• Why the culture war is no ‘distraction’
• The Promise of the Egyptian Plan for Gaza
• Poland Continues to Arrest Political Opponents - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Britain’s lax borders are putting women at risk
• The captain of a Portuguese-registered cargo ship has been arrested after his ship rammed into a U.S.-flagged tanker in the North Sea
• Trump's threatened 200 percent tariffs on European booze are his least sensible trade move yet
• Russia’s ghost ships haunt Libya - ICIJ
• Trump threatens to impose a 200% tariff on wine and other alcoholic beverages from the European Union if it does not remove a 50% tariff on whiskey
• Committee to Protect Journalists: Regional Director, Americas
• BBC Media Action: Senior Thematic Adviser, Governance & Democracy
• Trump must designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization
• Why is the U.S. threatening trade sanctions on Mexico? Victor Davis Hanson says
• From NICAR25, Four Free Cutting Edge and Time-Saving Investigative Data Tools
• Though Starmer’s project is fragile, he’s taking one giant leap: to reconfigure the British state | Martin Kettle
• Robert Jenrick’s false “two-tier justice” narrative
• Will the Farage-Lowe saga hurt Reform at the polls?
• The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, Spencer Klavan, and Mike Sabo
• If Trump wants to expand U.S. territory, why not buy the Chagos Islands?
• Yunupiŋu played the long game on native title – and has finally won | Clare Wright
• Five Years Ago, We Unjustly Condemned a Pangolin - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• U.S. Agency for International Development gave billions of dollars to non-government groups in Afghanistan with limited accountability, report says
• No, Keir Starmer is not ‘leader of the free world’
• Trump pokes fun at Irish Vice President JD Vance's socks during Oval Office meeting
• Venezuelan migrants are returning to their country of origin, according to Colombia
• The sentencing row reveals the woke turn of the judiciary
• Greenland voters throw weight behind slow approach to independence, Demokraatit party wins election
• It’s the Economy, Stupid is a whistle-stop tour of modern economics
• Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers
• Gone are the days when a ‘good job’ gets you a house – and now we have the data to prove it | Greg Jericho
• Trump’s spell has been broken
• If The U.S. Doesn't Build More Ships, China Will Rule The Waves
• Many people don't know that Lincoln Diaz Balart's father fought Fidel Castro years ago
• How could it be that the BBC didn’t check the accuracy of the subtitles?
• Deadlock in the Middle East - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Ignore the negotiations sideshow: Hamas must leave Gaza or be destroyed
• Douglas Murray wins libel case against Guardian Media Group after Observer article accused him of supporting racist attacks
• Dawn Butler’s ‘black caucus’ is divisive and ridiculous
• Are We Now in a Recession but Don’t Know It? - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Trump’s proposed import tariffs risk triggering a Europe-wide recession and another eurozone debt crisis
• Venezuelans who illegally crossed the U.S. border were living happily in more than 20 other countries for years before they realized the Biden administration would grant them an American lifestyle upgrade
• Why would Mexican drug cartel leader Rafael Caro Quintero target a single DEA agent?
• The UK’s Prime Minister Is Killing Economic Growth
• If disaster strikes, will there be enough to eat? Britain should be prepared – but it isn’t | Tim Lang
• As Jews celebrate Purim, let us end the slaughter in Gaza committed in our name | Peter Beinart
• The United States’ fertility rate has fallen to around 1.78, which is a cause for concern
• In Romania, the far right has unleashed a tide of hate and resurrected our fascist ghosts | Andrei Popoviciu
• How TBIJ Teamed up with UK Members of Parliament to Uncover ‘Silenced Stories’
• Labour has learned that austerity is hard to avoid
• Inside the Reform civil war
• A Reform Labour showdown looms in the Runcorn by-election
• The World After Gaza: turning the Holocaust against Israel
• Instead of wasting more time on the flawed Aukus submarine program, we must go to plan B now | Peter Briggs
• Ecuador's second presidential election of 2025
• U.S. arms exports jump more than a fifth between 2020 and 2024
• In Gaza plan, Arabs recast the future
• The Guardian view on Ursula von der Leyen’s first 100 days: the steepest of learning curves | Editorial
• The Guardian view on Nigel Farage: not even Donald Trump is as damaging to Reform as its own leader | Editorial
• Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Cut Off Funds for Severely Malnourished Toddlers
• The memory-holing of a pogrom
• Musk and Trump bash immigrants while destroying programs to stabilize their home countries
• Dodgy tanks, outdated warships: how can we trust UK defence chiefs to spend our billions wisely? | Richard Norton-Taylor
• Israel says it will cut off electricity to Gaza after Hamas fails to release 59 hostages
• A coup against Romanian democracy
• Why Starmer will champion a smarter state
• Canadians believe that Mark Carney is the man to stand up to Donald Trump | Colin Horgan
• My Mother From Another World - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• Trade tariffs are the new normal – and that’s unlikely to be positive for Australia | Sally Auld
• Firebombing of Tokyo was the most lethal single act of war in human history
• The Guardian view on Modi redrawing India’s electoral map: deepening a dangerous north-south divide| Editorial
• "500M Europeans Are Begging 300M Americans for Protection from 140M Russians Who Have Been Unable to Overcome 50M Ukrainians for Three Years"
• Heavy clashes between Assad loyalists and new Syrian government forces
• Still uncertain about Trump? Let Boris Johnson guide you on this ‘very compassionate man’ | Catherine Bennett
• Ignore the row: this Oscar-winning film offers a vision of a shared Palestine forged in solidarity | Kenan Malik
• More benefit cuts would risk turning drops of dissent in Labour’s ranks into a flood | Isabel Hardman
• Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? | Sonia Sodha
• The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now | Will Hutton
• Arab Hatred of Jews Predates the State of Israel - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• How the globalists dug their own grave
• In 1778, Benjamin Franklin sent a letter of thanks to King Louis XVI for his support
• Keir Starmer must reassure pragmatic liberals
• International (Marxist) Women’s Day - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• No Woman Left Behind: The Global Feminist Betrayal of Israeli Victims - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics
• “Narco Prince” Sentenced to Life as Trump Ramps up U.S.-Mexico Drug War