This week’s cover

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the intensity of the news has fried the brain. Accordingly, our cover this week features a...

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This week’s covers

As Liberation Day dawned our editors had a feeling that, after weeks of suspense, President Donald Trump’s big tariff announc...

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Business

Donald Trump unveiled his long-trailed and much-dreaded new list of tariffs. They were worse than expected. Mr Trump announce...

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Politics

A French court’s decision to bar Marine Le Pen, the leader of the hard-right National Rally (RN), from running for president ...

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The weekly cartoon

Dig deeper President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havocTrump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th ...

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