Pull up a chair for 2025

It was the year that Donald Trump caused chaos with tariffs, Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government, Angela Rayner was forced to resign, and Gary Lineker left the BBC. Here we take a look at some of the people who made the headlines in 2025

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM

Saint Paul, Minnesota Walz bows out: Tim Walz, ...

How’s the trade war going? Short answer: as badly as expected. Capricious tariffs have shown the rest of the world that the US cannot be trusted. And they have pushed trading partners away and closer

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

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