↩ Accueil

Vue normale

Reçu aujourd’hui — 18 septembre 2025

Starmer banks on £150bn investment to placate critics of Trump state visit

17 septembre 2025 à 23:47

Prime minister seeks to make best of difficult state visit by US president with package of commitments by US firms

Keir Starmer has sought to navigate a politically treacherous state visit by Donald Trump with an announcement of £150bn of US investment in the UK, as the president was kept safely within the confines of Windsor Castle.

As thousands of protesters voiced their anger in London at a Stop Trump Coalition protest, the US president was escorted by the king and queen through a first day that ended in a state banquet but kept him out of reach of his critics.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

© Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

© Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Reçu avant avant-hier

How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup

16 septembre 2025 à 19:00

Tommy Robinson’s ‘free speech’ protest attracted more than 100,000 people – and it was easy to find links to key political figures and events in the US

A young man in a suit made of union jacks held up a framed photograph of their hero above his head. The crowd loudly chanted the name. The focus of this acclamation was not Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, the organiser of the so-called “free speech” march in central London last Saturday.

They were instead shouting themselves hoarse for Charlie Kirk, the murdered political activist from Cook County in the US state of Illinois.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Krisztián Elek/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Krisztián Elek/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Krisztián Elek/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

❌