World Leader Leaderboard

News Commentary
Politics

Find out which heads of government are doing well, and who’s doing badly, each week on TLDR’s World Leader Leaderboard. Join Jack Kelly and the TLDR team for a lighthearted discussion about world politics. Published every Wednesday.

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TLDR’s World Leader Leaderboard Finally Returns

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The wait is finally over, the much anticipated World Leader Leader Board from TLDR News is back with a bang! Which leaders have made the cut? Who is a real winner? Who is a massive loser? TLDR have all the answers.

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Is Macron the Worst Politician of the Week?

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Another week, another set of winners and losers to add to the board! Is Macron a loser? Or will Zac insist that that's simply impossible? Also, a handful of world leaders are getting dangerously close to the bottom of the board...

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Why Trump Will Probably Have a Great 2025

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Trudeau's Ministers Desert Him: What Next? https://youtu.be/o1nfcOKi4-s

In the third instalment of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard, the team run through even more winners and losers of the past week, once again including someone Zac won't be happy about...

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Giorgia Meloni: A Winner or Loser This Week?

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In this very festive episode of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard, the team run through their final winners and losers of 2024, and has a big winner from last week fallen from grace...?

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Did Anyone Have a Worse Week than Justin Trudeau?

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In the first episode of TLDR"s World Leader Leaderboard of 2025, we run through which leaders are going into the new year winners and which are losers... including a couple of leaders that are hanging onto that leaderboard for dear life...

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Why Things are Looking up for Mohammed bin Salman

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In this week's episode of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard, more winners, losers and audience submissions are making their way onto the board... which is getting very full. Who won't last long? And who is this week's big cheese?

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How TikTok Gave Trump an Easy Win this Week

Is Trump Warming to Starmer?

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In this week's episode of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard, it comes as no surprise that a lot of the world leader's current status on the board relies on how they've handled Trump in the last week... but has Trump himself moved up or down?

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Has Trump Handed Xi Jinping a Win?

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In this week's episode of TLDR's World Leader Leaderboard, the boys discuss yet another week of Trump drama - who is in his good books? Who is he excluding from important conversations? But most importantly... who has overtaken him on the top of the board?

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How Japan's PM Won Over Donald Trump

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In this week’s episode of TLDR’s World Leader Leaderboard, the team continue to run through how other leaders are handling Trump.. but also, which leaders are finally catching a break and rising up the board?

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