It sounds like the background to a spy thriller about a rogue state. Yet some argue that the Trump administration in the US has done all of these things – and more – in the space of just a year in office. Trump himself, Trubowitz argues, has yet to commit fully to any one of these paths. Trump, Trubowitz argues, is both a product of that polarisation and an accelerant of it. Arifa AkbarThe front pagesView image in fullscreen Photograph: The Guardian“‘Go back home’: now 34 ex-pupils accuse Farage of racist behaviour” is top story at the Guardian.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2026 07:05 UTC