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Biden’s State of the Union speech was in stark contrast to Britain’s dearth of economic ideas
The US president’s strategy is a world away from anything the Tories have to offer. Labour needs to learn from it
Like every State of the Union address by every US president before him, Joe Biden’s speech to Congress on Tuesday was aimed squarely at the domestic audience.
- Martin Kettle
- The Guardian
The United States may be a global superpower, but the rest of the world counts for little when the president makes his annual winter journey up to Capitol Hill.
The Beltway rituals of the evening – the obligatory hallowed phrases, the namechecks of the guests in the gallery, the breaks for standing ovations (and this week some heckling) – all combine to label this as a …