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This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers. To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR

Covid five years on From the new Private Eye, out now.

It’s now clear that the Donald J. Trump Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if

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SCOOP: Researchers from China are to be allowed access to half a million UK GP records despite western intelligence agencies’ fears about the authoritarian regime amassing health data. With Zeke Hunter-Green Dominic Kendrick and Olivia Lee theguardian.com/technology/202…

What’s it like to be hunted? A new The Guardian investigation with Maeve McClenaghan into the campaign to incite far right violence against Hongkonger democracy activists in the UK Finn Lau 劉祖廸 Nathan Law 羅冠聰 others. With ICIJ HOPE not hate theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Essential reading from Peter Baker. “It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.”

Fear is dictatorship glue. You can't imprison everyone with a dissenting thought. Or inconvenient factual observation. But fear teaches self censorship. It's a scalable system of control. The autocrat's challenge is to keep the fear going. 1/

Hong Kong exiles in the UK are being targeted online as part of a larger coordinated effort to attack China's opponents. Graphika analysts were among the experts who reviewed social media posts for a new investigation by The Guardian's Tom Burgis and Maeve McClenaghan:

Repeated beatings, electric shocks, suffocation, prisoners wrapped from head to toe in sticky tape and then “used as human furniture”… Inside one Russian torture facility (of many) where Ukrainian POWs and civilian detainees are held. A horror story: theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

There’s a huge risk here that’s ignored. The resource curse. Economies dominated by oil and mining tend to be massively corrupt - because those industries concentrate power in the hands of those who control access to the resources. The fate Ukraine has been fighting to escape.

Exposing wrongdoing has always taken bravery. As threats to journalism increase, so does the need to protect sources. Secure Messaging is an important new tool that makes it easier to share confidential information with journalists at the Guardian. theguardian.com/membership/202…

Killing machines: how Russia and Ukraine’s race to perfect deadly pilotless drones could harm us all theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

I met the late Muhammadu Buhari a few times. My favourite line of his came after David Cameron called Nigeria "fantastically corrupt". Which is true, as Buhari accepted. But with a kicker for western states: Can you give the loot back now please? ft.com/content/3532d2… Tolu Ogunlesi, MON