One hundred days of the new presidency on 30th April.
1. Democracy
Government by executive order, - is this a suppression of democracy?
Democracy failing. Bypassing congress, overriding and ignoring laws passed by congress.
2. Law and order.
Government agencies are ignoring court orders or deliberately subverting them.
Lawsuits challenging Trump policies raise big constitutional questions, but they also rely on a law that requires the government to follow the correct procedures when changing course.
Arbitrary arrests, unlawful detention, unlawful extradition, curtailing free speech.
The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-mystery-of-ices-unidentifiable-arrests
US top court instructs Trump to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62gnzzeg34o
US Supreme Court halts deportation of Venezuelans under wartime law
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czd3rdjn81lo
Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20xq5nd8jeo
3. International Affairs.
Threats to the sovereignty of Greenland and Canada,
Ukraine – pressure being put on Ukraine to achieve a peace by Wednesday.
Isreal & Gaza and the West Bank
Trump's Gaza plan will be seen as flying in face of international law.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w5q8qn59yo
Iran
Houthis – is this the start of a long-term commitment for military engagement?
4. Tariffs.
Trump’s tariffs: the full list
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/03/trumps-tariffs-the-full-list
Trump faces moment of reckoning on trade after delaying tariffs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6264g7z2ewo
Trump's trade war with neighbours is delayed - what did they all get out of it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c805jjk2klko
China unveils US tariffs and Google investigation in response to Trump levies
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/trump-china-tariffs
Inconsistent imposition of tariffs.
Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
5. Attack on Science – both medical science and University Research.
Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz01y9gkdm3o
Harvard just stood up to Trump. How long can it last?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20z60vxvmjo
Ousted Vaccine Chief Says RFK Jr.’s Team Sought Data to Justify Anti-Science Stance
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/peter-marks-fda-vaccine-regulator-rfk-jr-interview-9194e3b4
6. Administrative incompetence.
Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists
Trump empowers Musk by ordering agencies to cooperate with Doge
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/trump-doge-executive-order-musk
7. Cancellation of USAid
US cedes ground to China with ‘self-inflicted wound’ of USAid shutdown, analysts say.
8. How will it end? Is America to be trusted as an ally?
9. Is this something we should be doing?.
Nationalities of foreign criminals to be published.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjln7zzz8eo
10. Is net zero the next Brexit?
Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong.
11. Youth mobility scheme.
Labour MPs urge Starmer to back youth mobility scheme amid EU trade reset.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/labour-letter-youth-mobility-scheme-brexit-eu-brussels
12. Are we over diagnosing children?
Farage claims doctors ‘massively over-diagnosing’ children with Send and mental health conditions – UK politics live