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I know the dangers a wounded Trump presents – this is how the UK should deal with him now | Kim Darroch

Power is draining away at home, but the US president will see a chance to make his mark through foreign policy Kim Darroch was Britain’s ambassador to the US between January 2016 and December 2019 Election nights are party time in Washington. The bars and restaurants fill up and the city rocks. For diplomats, it’s an opportunity – but it’s also a long night, as you trek across the party scene in search of insight and illumination. Invariably, it has its moments. I recall being at the Washington Post party on the night of the presidential election on 8 November 2016. Washington is an overwhelmi

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The Guardian view on cocaine and domestic abuse: new links between drugs and crime need investigating | Editorial

Patterns of drug supply and use are changing and the government’s five-year-old drug strategy must evolve too A slight drop in the number of drug deaths over a year in England and Wales is the first such news since 2012. Over the past decade, the grim trajectory has been upward; the annual figure of 5,519 has more than doubled since the 1990s. Given this trend, any fall is a relief. But the spike in deaths linked to cocaine, which has overtaken heroin for the first time, as well as evidence uncovered by the Guardian of a link with domestic violence, points to the need for a drugs policy that t

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Failing Grayling double reports for duty as Reform’s armed forces spokesperson | John Crace

New recruit Angus MacIntyre bears an unfortunate resemblance to little-missed ex-Tory minister Chris Grayling You can make a good case for Nigel Farage having been one of the most consequential British politicians of the 21st century. Without him there would have been no Brexit. And yet it is now beginning to look as if his time has come and gone. The narcissistic qualities that have served him so well now threaten to finish him off. His skin is becoming thinner by the day. All that’s left is reflexive lashing out. A raging against the dying of the light. You’d need to have a heart of stone no

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