The fraught politics of immigration seem to be coming to Spain. If you're British, Dutch, French, German or Italian it's a familiar tale; but it has come as a surprise to Spaniards, the majority of whom have long had a very liberal attitude to incomers. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I'm sorry, but when it comes to this toughest of diplomatic tasks -- coming up with clever but uncontroversial gift ideas for visiting foreign leaders -- the Danes have it so easy.

Donald Trump Highway or Xi Jinping Boulevard? As Trump tries to muscle SE Asia with poisonpilled trade deals, Xi tells them not to be bullied. Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia don't want to have to choose... but what if they're forced to? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Chips for you, beans for me. A smorgasbord of a deal. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

No chainsaw, no leather jacket... but Milei shows plenty of resolve to use a surprising mandate to press on with his singular economic experiment. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Migration makes for tricky politics even in China. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Here’s why global markets are worried about a few bad corporate apples in America. It could upset the whole cart. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

'A completely new dawn'. Now that China's economic arsenal is replete with weapons, is Beijing poised to turn its leverage into outright coercion? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I went to Milan. I had a very nice Vietnamese baguette, a very ordinary pizza, and a lot of very interesting conversations about the arrival of the uber-wealthy into what was already Italy's most international city. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Meloni and Trump are politically close, but it seems business is business. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

How London lost its lustre for the world's mining industry. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

In geopolitics/geoeconomics, everything is connected. The White House seems to be sitting at the intersection of midwest American soybean farmers, a newly deal-savvy Beijing, and a chainsaw-wielding Latin American president. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

France's fight over the "Zucman tax" on wealth isn't just a policy debate - it could yet determine the fate of the new Lecornu government, and it epitomises the country's polarised politics. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Year by year, fewer and fewer Australians are coming to live and work in the UK. It used to be a rite of passage… why is this changing, and what does it mean? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The tooth is out there.

Australians shown here joyously helping themselves to the full menu of anglophone swearwords, rather than taking the selective approach of their British and American cousins.

The economics behind the rise of the remarkable young politician who could be New York’s next mayor… www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Streets empty, but glass half-full? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

At this time of year, nostalgia kicks in for one of my most favourite moments of my six years as the Australian Financial Review's Europe correspondent... the swan upping, on the western reaches of the Thames. www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

It looks like Australia's arm is about to get seriously twisted... www.ft.com/content/4a93...

Some intentionally provocative parting thoughts as I wrap up my half-dozen years at the ⁦‪⁦‪⁦‪@FinancialReview‬⁩ … Europe could end up more like 1980s Qld than 1930s Germany www.afr.com/world/europe...

I went to meet Lord Michael Hintze to find out about his new venture. But I got a lot more than that. www.afr.com/companies/fi...

I wanted to meet the Man in Seat 61 and find out what makes him tick ... so we took a rather extraordinary train ride together. www.afr.com/life-and-lux...

Aristocrat's battle in Britain, where the buffalo roam... www.afr.com/companies/ga...

A century ago, London's Dagenham went through a building boom that saw its population increase tenfold in a decade. Now the builders are back... including the Aussies. www.afr.com/property/res...

Yesterday's Trump-Putin call was more innocuous than expected, perhaps - but it's where things might go next that has Europe fearful and NATO on the rocks. www.afr.com/world/europe...

A veteran of the Perth mining scene is sitting right at the heart of two of Trump's biggest geopolitical interests: Greenland and Ukraine. www.afr.com/companies/mi...

The Russian president is at a crossroads in his quest to reconquer Ukraine. How he responds will reveal if he’s a cunning card sharp or a delusional dreamer. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Canada, Europe or Australia-UK? The three playbooks for responding to Trump's tariff assault. www.afr.com/world/europe...

All eyes on Putin now? www.afr.com/world/europe...

The Trump carousel goes round again? www.afr.com/world/europe...

If you don't enjoy the slightly contrarian take, at least you can marvel at my torturing of the card-table metaphor. www.afr.com/world/europe...

A meeting of more than a dozen Western leaders in London has tried to plot a path past Trump's plan to parley only with Putin. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Could Europe defend itself if the US really did pull out of protecting the continent? www.afr.com/world/europe...

Don’t like Trump’s $8m ‘gold card’ visa? Try Europe for $413,000 www.afr.com/world/europe...

I’d love to take this photo back to 2012, explain what’s going on, and watch their reaction.

Here's my attempt to make sense of the week. Was Trump being strategic, tactical or just impulsive? And what should Europe do about it? www.afr.com/world/europe...

Donald Trump has launched a blistering broadside against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, raising fears that the White House plans to end the three-year-old war on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Here's a first glimpse of what Sanjeev Gupta thinks about losing his South Australian steelworks. www.afr.com/companies/ma...

Scott Morrison is reluctant to talk about Australian politics. But in the course of a conversation about Trump, he did have a few observations on how the MAGA moment would play out Down Under. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

The tectonic plates are shifting so fast in this hemisphere. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Sanjeev Gupta's post-Greensill endgame seems to be moving ever closer. Will he get over the line? www.afr.com/world/europe...

After seven days of the Sam Kerr trial, I was back in court on Wednesday to see another Aussie expat involved in a legal wrangle. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Sam Kerr won her courtroom battle, but not the culture war. The jury was unanimous, but public opinion is divided. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Regulating social media and AI is becoming a significant geopolitical fault line, it seems. www.afr.com/world/europe...

A jury finds soccer superstar Sam Kerr not guilty. The judge says her behaviour was partly responsible for the allegation. Kerr herself says she wants to move on. www.afr.com/world/europe...

A new perspective on the Sam Kerr story from her fiancee, appearing in the witness box on day four. www.afr.com/world/europe...

Schoolyard racism and serial killings: Sam Kerr defends her outburst www.afr.com/world/europe...