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Happy New Year: Will Donald Trump’s tiny hand press the Big Red Button in 2019?

It’s fascinating (in a horror-show kind of way) to watch the United States of America write itself a new narrative. Not the one where it dominated the post-World War II liberal global order and made itself the wealthiest economy on the planet by a long chalk, but a victim narrative in which poor little America …

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Cameron’s wet dream of nuking China

Completely from left field ( uh, right field…) and out of the blue skies in David Cameron’s air-brushed head, Oceania is now at war with Eastasia. I’ve walked fresh from my shortlist triumph at last night’s Orwell Prize event and into life as the Conservatives would have it — a posh boy’s fantasy about plucky …

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Cameron’s wet dream of nuking China

Completely from left field ( uh, right field…) and out of the blue skies in David Cameron’s air-brushed head, Oceania is now at war with Eastasia. I’ve walked fresh from my shortlist triumph at last night’s Orwell Prize event and into life as the Conservatives would have it — a posh boy’s fantasy about plucky …

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