WESTLINE

WESTLINE is @thursday_times' foreign policy magazine on Western power, tracking how decisions ripple through markets, wars, and democracies.

[The Thursday Times @thursday_times]

Trump rarely admires foreign figures by accident. His praise for Asim Munir points to something deeper than protocol: a recognition of the kind of charismatic presence Trump has always found irresistible—a tenet dating back to his days with Roy Cohn.
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[The Thursday Times @thursday_times]

Keir Starmer came to office as a chaos antidote. Yet as Labour faces scandal after scandal, the snap-election conversation no longer feels fanciful. If Britain is herded to the polls, the beneficiary may not be who Westminster once assumed. @ttWESTLINE
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[The Thursday Times @thursday_times]

Pakistani nationals are at the centre of a growing scandal over fake gay asylum claims in Britain, with advisers coaching migrants to invent identities and stage evidence. Pakistanis made up 42% of sexuality-based asylum claims in 2023. @ttWESTLINE

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Labour delivers a Budget which expands the state and cuts child poverty, relying on record tax and threshold freezes, but offers little comfort to those worried about stagnant wages, no investment, and threadbare services.

#budget #uk #politics #news

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[WESTLINE @ttWESTLINE]

Reeves will walk out tomorrow with a Red Box in her hand and a fixed, careful smile on her face. Tax freezes, stealth hikes and shrinking services could turn Labour’s “grown-up” budget into a slow-motion crisis for Britain.

#uk #politics #news #budget

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Trump’s world is divided into killers and suckers; this is the story of the fixer who taught him, the mayor who impressed him and the tech king who did not.

#politics #usa #trump

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