I suspect we might come to look on Mark Carney’s speech in Davos a little like Winston Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech in Fullerton in brilliantly articulating the threats of a new and different global age. It s worth reading in full. https://t.co/wE54yja660

Watching Mark Carney's Davos speech and his total clarity and gravity about the world having turned fills me with embarrassment about Keir Starmer's self-abasement to Trump. It doesn't work!

Europeans and others around the world are rapidly reaching the point where they distrust and despise Americans. Q: Why are they blaming all of us for the shit that Trump’s doing? A: Because we elected him— TWICE— and are doing NOTHING to stop him. The population is complicit.

Carney offers the best and honest take on the end of the so-called "rules-based international order". "Every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they

"Great powers can afford to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity, the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other

Trump has finally given the world the motivation to do what it should have done on its own decades ago. If Americans think there’s an affordability crisis now, wait until they see what happens to consumer prices and interest rates when the world pulls the rug on the U.S. dollar.

@MarkJCarney Probably the best speech I have ever heard and I am not young. I have been politically engaged for over four decades and lived in seven different nations. This was a speech for the ages, a banger. PM Carney, you make us all very proud to be Canadian.

Europe Is Waking Up, and It Is Not Asking for Permission In his Davos speech on January 20, 2026, Emmanuel Macron framed today’s geopolitical climate as a slide toward a “world without rules,” where raw power tests the limits of international law and tries to turn cooperation

Appeasement is always a sign of weakness. Europe cannot afford to be weak - neither against its enemies, nor ally. Appeasement means no results, only humiliation. European assertiveness and self-confidence have become the need of the moment.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, French President Emmanuel Macron just delivered the most powerful rebuke of Donald Trump we've seen yet. This is incredible.

“Having a place like Europe, which sometimes is too slow, for sure, and needs to be reformed, for sure, but which is predictable, loyal, and where you know that the rule of the game is the rule of law, is a good place” Macron, WEF 2026 🇫🇷🇪🇺

The main arguments for the EU to accept a wildly imbalanced trade deal last summer was that it would lock in US support for European security and bring clarity and stability to transatlantic trade. That it clearly did neither (or worse) suggests it is time for different approach.

As America prepares to commemorate its 250th anniversary, the republic is flirting with its own funeral.” My column.

🚨 *DANISH PENSION FUND AKADEMIKERPENSION TO EXIT US TREASURIES

🇨🇦 US exports down 13B but globally Canada is exporting 18B more as a result. Canada is winning the trade war.

BREAKING: Denmark's PM says if Trump proceeds with tariffs on Europe over Greenland, then Europe must respond.

Croatia: GDP of €86 billion. Population 3.9 million. Can fully protect its airspace. Ireland: GDP of €520 billion. Population 5.5 million. Cannot protect its airspace at all.

What an ROI for ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ - his return on investment is a kick in the nuts from Trump after a year of painstaking sycophancy

Economists warn Trump's latest tariffs could tip the UK into recession. That it will hit us harder than other countries. Why? The 1% growth we've had over the past 10 - 15 years has been largely the effect of higher immigration rather than productivity. Britain has no buffers