A great day for Trump?

President Trump's new appointment, General John Kelly, has lost no time in asserting his authority at the White House.

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Military discipline arrives at the White House
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President Trump's new chief of staff, John Kelly, wasted no time asserting his authority on his first day in the job, say Michael Shear, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman in The New York Times. On Monday, the four-star marine general announced his aim to "impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing" and promptly fired Anthony Scaramucci, the "bombastic communications director" who had been hired just ten days earlier. "The Mooch", as the ex-financier likes to be known, is the latest of more than a dozen prominent staff to have been ousted or forced to resign or switch jobs in the first six months of the Trump administration, says David Smith in The Guardian.

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.