Reform in the style of Argentina’s Javier Milei is what is needed to set the UK on the right track — Nigel Farage’s ideas would return us to the 1970s.

Antisemitism and political intolerance on campus needed to be confronted. But assaulting academia rarely works — ask James II — and the president’s approach risks making martyrs of the worst offenders.

But is he crushing the economy in the process?

Number of passengers flying to the US plunging, ships full of goods halted, price rises and employee lay-offs … it’s not Covid, it’s Trump’s tariff pandemic.

The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing the motherboard with a Minecraft hammer.

Congratulations, Donald Trump: You are officially Richard Nixon’s revenge. Not many presidents have sought to emulate Nixon since he was forced to resign in disgrace in August 1974. But you are going there. And in many ways you are right to do so. You just need to tread warily. There is a reason Richard is not fondly remembered today — except by you.

This week has seen good, bad and ugly moments in geopolitics. And it’s ended with Donald Trump playing Blondie and Volodymyr Zelensky as Tuco. Trump has the weapons, so Zelensky has to dig.

It is easy to be confused when the Oval Office becomes a studio and world leaders become contestants in a geopolitical version of “The Apprentice.”

With British institutions copying the likes of Harvard in stifling free speech, the only way back to reason is explicit guarantees for academic freedom.