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Liz Truss came off to the worst possible start as Prime Minister. First, she became the last person to shake the hand of the late Queen Elisabeth and, after [...]

High and persistent inflation has come as a surprise for many. The US Federal Reserve famously labelled inflation ‘transitory’ in early 2021, and for [...]

The United Kingdom’s government is broke. It is something that is almost never spoken of, but it is true, nonetheless. Our politicians spend a lot more than [...]

There has always been a chasm between the rich West and the developing world in their attitude to decarbonisation, because of the different stages of [...]

Inflation is well and truly back. With prices rising across the economy, years of reckless money-printing has come home to roost. Central banks are (at least [...]

The age of globalisation, which started with the fall of the Iron Curtain, is on the wane. For decades, the world economy became increasingly interconnected [...]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought about an unprecedented international response, both in terms of speed and magnitude. We have already written about [...]

There is war in Europe, and for the first time since the Second World War, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has spilled over from a regional conflict into a [...]

After months of sabre-rattling, last week Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, finally gave the order to invade Ukraine, and the world’s attention was [...]

Freedom used to be a universally held value. From John Locke to Martin Luther King, from the French Revolution and the American War of Independence to the [...]