It looks like there is a deal to be done where the proposed $60 billion package is paired with major reform of America’s porous southern border.
It pulled out of Gaza previously for a reason. Yet it will have no alternative but to stay there, if it is unwilling to hand over control to either foreign peacekeepers or the Palestinian Authority.
In domestic policy, we are headed for the real deal. Trump’s campaign staff have been briefing for months that, this time, deep state officials will not stand in their way.
The former lean towards the idea that American interests are best served by defending freedom and democracy around the world; the latter that US interests are best served by using our resources to improve life for ordinary Americans at home.
He will probably judge it better to keep a conservative spending message and dial down on the more radical green growth programme. Which would require her to make a painful U-turn.
Through their overreaction, they may have handed the UK something quite wondrous: a genuine economic benefit of Brexit.
America is heading for one of the nastiest and most divisive elections in its modern history. It could very easily overshadow our own.
Let the protesters gather in one place, have their event, and disperse. No march. I’m reluctant to believe that the Met can’t police a rally properly if it puts its mind to it.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives must tread a tightrope – getting Democrats on side without alienating his divided Republican colleagues.
Perhaps most importantly of all, a carefully calibrated and adaptive approach by the UK to Israel could help constrain the cycle of escalation that is all too familiar in the Middle East.
Netanyahu may have said: how would you feel, were you lectured by countries without an independent judiciary, let alone the free press, minority rights and fair elections that we have in Israel?
Kwasi Kwarteng arrived back from Washington on the morning of the 14th of October to discover he had been sacked.
No other Republican candidate currently looks likely to defeat the President – but his support is transactional, rather than rooted in any deep enthusiasm for his record.
Yet unlike insurgent parties in other countries, the Conservatives have time and again made themselves the party of a status quo that serves only the interests of older voters.