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Germany’s Merz is running out of time
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon purge
Nigel Farage’s pile of financing scandals
Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism
The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran
China’s giant trade surplus has an increasingly geopolitical twist
How to make your retirement less of a (fiscal) drag
The world’s $2tn interest bill
Many countries now spend more on debt servicing than defence, including the US, France and the UK
Sweden’s fightback against the gangs
Scotland has a whisky problem
