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According to Goodhart, Anywhere overdominance created populist blowback. This imbalance explains Brexit, Trump, Reform UK polling around 30-35%.
Goodhart lists failures of British anywhere governance: education favoring degrees over vocational skills, indifferent regional policy, disastrous family policy, and uncontrolled immigration.
Britain's manufacturing is 8% of the economy; exports to the EU account for just 2% of national income. Goodhart argues Brexit’s economic impact was inherently limited.
Goodhart advocates a 10-15 year immigration pause to allow integration. He notes Britain’s Muslim population is 6%, but warns its political divergence is worrying.
The ECB selected 36 payment providers, including Stripe, Revolut, and Deutsche Bank, to test the digital euro ahead of a pilot starting in the second half of 2027.
Trump pledged to reinstate a blockade of Iran and announced the US would become the 'Guardian of the Hormuz Strait,' imposing a 20% toll on cargo.
Iran countered Trump's toll proposal by offering a 1% toll for safe passage and reiterated it remains the permanent guardian of the Strait of Hormuz.
The US used one-way attack surface drones to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at Iran's Bandar Abbas naval base, marking the first combat use of sea drones.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is near its minimum operating level and will dip below it within a week, while 20% of global oil shipping remains disrupted by the conflict.
Ukrainian drone attacks have degraded Russian oil refining capacity by 21%, pushing Russian production to some of its lowest historical levels.
Trump greenlit strikes by Saudi Arabia on Yemen, potentially opening another front and threatening a blockade of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
Trita Parsi argues the US-Iran war fundamentals remain unchanged: Iran can threaten Hormuz, the US can punish Iran, but neither can secure objectives through force.
The plan to arm Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq and have them cross into western Iran to hold territory fell apart.
ICE agents fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian asylum applicant in Biddeford, Maine. ICE's statement cited 'fearing for public safety' as justification, a deviation from typical protocol.
The Biddeford victim was not the target of the ICE operation; ICE was surveilling the address of another person with a final removal order.
This was the second fatal ICE shooting in less than a week, following an incident in Houston. Both involved unmarked vehicles and the victims were not the operation's targets.
ICE agents involved in these shootings were not wearing body cameras, either intentionally leaving them behind or turning them off.
A new ICE arrest quota pushes for 2,000 arrests per day, a policy linked by hosts to the recent surge in aggressive and fatal encounters.
The Maine shooting occurred near Senator Susan Collins's office, sparking protests. Collins provided the deciding vote for a recent $70 billion ICE funding tranche.
Hill draws parallels between China's push for open-source AI models and geopolitical strategy, suggesting it aims to undermine US hegemony by destroying proprietary business models.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been imprisoned by Myanmar's military junta since the 2021 coup, with her last confirmed sighting on December 30, 2022. The junta denies independent verification of her condition despite foreign pressure.
Aung San Suu Kyi's original 33-year prison sentence was recently reduced to 27 years. She previously spent about 15 years under detention between 1990 and 2010.
Aaron Connolly notes Aung San Suu Kyi's deeply flawed legacy in office, where she defended the military against genocide charges for atrocities against the Rohingya, jailed journalists, and isolated Myanmar, pushing it closer to China.
The Myanmar junta refuses to provide proof of life for Aung San Suu Kyi despite requests from her son and foreign leaders like India's Narendra Modi and the UN envoy. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing reacts with anger to questions about her.
Releasing Aung San Suu Kyi would likely melt resistance to normalizing relations with the junta at the UN and ASEAN, where Myanmar is suspended from high-level meetings and represented by a civilian government ambassador.
Turkey is experiencing an economic influx due to the Iran war, with cargo volumes through its biggest port tripling since the Strait of Hormuz closed. Overland logistics and pipelines are also busier.
The IMF estimates the Iran war has caused about $600 billion in damage within Iran itself. The conflict may reduce GDP growth in the broader Middle East by two percentage points.
Baker sees the ultimate robotics competition as Tesla versus Chinese manufacturers, mirroring the car industry. Humanoid robots can learn from YouTube videos.
The US-Iran ceasefire agreement has collapsed due to ambiguous wording in Paragraph 5, which states Iran will make best efforts for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, but does not define which channels must be open.
David Sanger argues the agreement was rushed and poorly constructed by inexperienced negotiators (VP Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Wickoff), lacking input from diplomats familiar with Iran’s history of exploiting loopholes in agreements.