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One year after Brexit, Britain is reaping the benefits of independence
A year ago today Britain awoke to a rather muted celebration – which seemed to consist largely of a bubble…
Full text: Boris Johnson's Brexit deal speech
It is four and a half years since the British people voted to take back control of their money, their…
Trade not aid: spending more doesn’t mean we care more
Spending more doesn’t mean we care more
If taxes must rise, Sunak should pick on private equity instead
It’s not axiomatic that taxes must rise to pay for the pandemic, if you seriously believe the surge in growth,…
Who would risk being a government adviser?
Poor Tony Abbott. It would seem being prime minister of Australia doesn’t bring you to the attention of the British…
The biggest obstacle to a Brexit deal
Downing Street now thinks that the chances of a Brexit deal are down to 30 or 40 per cent, I…
How liberal globalism went bankrupt
When future historians chronicle the period after the Cold War, the rise of China will dominate their accounts. Beginning in…
Could British farmers block a UK-US trade deal – and what does it mean for Oz?
Will the UK agree a trade deal with the US? Such an agreement has long been cited by Leave campaigners…
Boycotting China is not that easy
China’s various human rights abuses, their treatment of women, their savagery toward religious people and their chokehold on Taiwan and…
Time to crush China’s Arctic influence
Eyes are opening to the evil of the authoritarian Chinese regime that represses its people, genocides entire cultures, and influences…
How Bill Clinton junked America’s supremacy
‘This is a good day for America,’ said President Bill Clinton on May 24, the Year of Our Lord 2000.…
Our Easter lamb reveals the miracle of free trade
Easter is heavily associated with lamb. The paschal lamb’s sacrifice is a gift to all but that is not the…
Globalisation is scarcely new: it dates back to the year 1000
In Japan, people thought the world would end in 1052. In the decades leading up to judgment day, Kyoto was…
Man’s first instinct has always been to return to the sea
Travelling the Indus valley late in the third millennium BC you would have been awed by two Bronze Age megacities,…
Why Britain, like Iceland, will thrive outside the EU
I have no doubt that Britain will thrive after leaving the EU, whether or not it leaves with a deal.…
Trade deals can destroy native industries – but they still boost wealth creation
Comments by the former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers this week, claiming that Britain will come off poorly in negotiations…
Playing chicken: Trade deals with the US will make Britain stronger
Why is it that free trade, which almost everyone agrees is good when conducted with other European countries, suddenly becomes…
Adam Smith would have approved of Trump’s trade tariffs
‘What the hell is going on?’ That anxious wail of economic incomprehension has been heard ever since President Trump decided…
China is winning the new scramble for Africa. Brexit could change that
On her tour of South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, Theresa May finally made a positive case for Brexit. For too…
How bad is the drugs problem in British jails?
Cultured tastes Dawn Butler accused Jamie Oliver of ‘cultural appropriation’ for coming up with his own recipe for jerk rice.…
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Global Britain was built as a narco-empire
China, wrote Adam Smith, is ‘one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious…
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Sydney For decades, Australia has been known as ‘the lucky country’. At the end of the world geographically, we are…
Why Mark Carney’s successor is likely to be woman
If Ben Broadbent’s Daily Telegraph interview last week was the launch of a bid for the governorship of the Bank…
I’m an optimist for trade despite the idiocies of politicians
I’m proud to be a member of the 661-year-old Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York, having qualified…
Call this US-China tit-for-tat a trade war?
‘Stocks plunge as China hits US goods with tariffs,’ said a headline after the long weekend, and the FTSE100 duly…
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