same, but when people say 'did you see that great piece in the guardian?'

Likewise, Ivo Daalder - former foreign policy advisor to Clinton and Obama - is not one to panic. Yet here we are...

When people like Peter Ricketts - who is measured, sensible and not in any way alarmist - start speaking like this, it really is serious

Notable that Trump cares about only 0.2% of homicides in South Africa (oh, and some of the farmers killed are black)

And for those who claim Labour needs to "talk tough" on immigration, a reminder that John Reid said this 18 years ago

Most people don’t have a problem with most immigration. Or as @robfordmancs.bsky.social put it to me: “Attitudes towards immigration have moved in a liberal direction in most western countries with large migration flows."

Anyway, here's my piece that - so long as Merz eventually becomes chancellor - still holds up: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

to be fair, I did point out his domestic woes may hold him back

Trump is enormously unpopular in just about every Western nation - running as the anti-Trump candidate (and painting your right-wing opponent as a Trumpite) is a winning strategy

In the rest of the new international section we go on the campaign trail with Mark Carney, travel to Ho Chi Minh City ahead of the 50 year anniversary of the Vietnam War, ask whether climate change will swing the Australian election, and spend time on campus at a divided Columbia

Robert Harris, who was the Observer’s political editor in the 1980s, returned for the start of the new era to write about the politics of choosing a new Pope: observer.co.uk/news/interna...