Prediction markets are a way of betting on the future. But have members of the Trump administration been using them to profit from secret military knowledge?
✏️ Matt Muir
The right wing channel absolutely wasn't bothered to have been beaten to a major TV prize by Sky News
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The Matts unpick the events of the past week and are intrigued by the internal Labour Party politics that created a sense of chaos around the UK’s response to the war
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The Minnesota bloodbath was all his idea. For now, he’s safely in the White House – but one day he could make a very useful scapegoat
✏️ Nicky Woolf
He drew other men towards him and trapped them in a state of complicity. But the cynical use of young women as tools to achieve power is nothing new
✏️ Tilly Lawless
🚨 Our latest issue is now on sale - Operation epic fuck up: Trump goes to war
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Donald Trump takes on the world and loses - as imagined by Henry Morris ✏️
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The Reform leader has topped up his company coffers by £1.8 million in the wake of his election as MP for Clacton
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The Iran War will inevitably lead to the collapse in Trump’s political project. It’s tempting to welcome that prospect – but it could make the president even more dangerous
✏️ Jay Elwes
The economic projections in the chancellor’s statement today have been made obsolete by war in Iran. Rachel Reeves would have won sympathy if she had acknowledged this. She didn’t
✏️ @jamesrball.com
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
✏️ @rostaylor.bsky.social
Even if he loses the general election, Viktor Orbán will retain his grip on the country’s institutions. That could spell disaster for whoever wins – and for Hungary
✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social
Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president
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The Metropolitan Police claims to have changed, but its reforms fail to address its systemic issues. Five years after Sarah’s murder, I still do not trust them
✏️ @jamieklingler.bsky.social
The party which likes to pose as the anti-elite hosted a shindig where it promised lobbyists their clients would be "very rich" under Reform
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LIVE SOON 🎥 Should we ban social media for the over 60s? Matt Muir and Lucy Reade discuss the age group that has become the most radicalised online. Watch below 👇
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On the off chance something good does emerge from this chaotic conflict, don’t rush to give the President any credit for it
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Retaliation is structurally embedded in the Islamic Republic’s doctrine of deterrence. The only uncertainty is its scale – and how many borders it will cross
✏️ Lynne O'Donnell
The US is pulling back from Europe. If it withdraws its nuclear umbrella, that will leave the continent dangerously exposed. It is time to plan for that scenario
✏️ Tom Arms
“Kush” had notoriously arranged for a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, who was cooperating in the election contributions case against him. Now he has been rehabilitated as Trump’s ambassador to France
✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social
The German chancellor is in Washington meeting Trump, a man who sees Europe as irrelevant, who supports Merz’s opponents and who is political poison. What can he hope to gain?
✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social
SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨 The Matts do their level best to make sense of the last three days - events which make little sense in isolation, but once a wider spectrum of factors comes into play, does a sinister strategy emerge?
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We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care
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The Mail man is nostalgic for the days of a 24-year-old TV police drama
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Pride is a brittle thing. One minute you’re soaring, the insurgent party’s tenacious rising-star, the voice of the “forgotten majority.” Next, the majority turns out to be a lot smaller than you were led to believe
✏️ Zoë Grünewald
The experiences of Iraq and Libya show what happens when the west attacks but has no plan.
✏️ Andy Owen
Should it really be necessary for all movie makers to issue Middle East position papers before attending an awards ceremony?
✏️ Tanit Koch
