Inside-Out, political commentary from Philip Stephens
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What Britain’s Catholic Prime Minister could learn from St Augustine (opens the original)
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Whatever happened to Britain’s Tories? (opens the original)
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During the Sun newspaper’s 1990s heyday, a particularly notorious editor at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid was said to have a ready response to any reader who dared complain about its vulgar sensationalism. Kelvin MacKenzie, newsroom folklore had it, would tell critics they were “banned” from buying the title. Now hemorrhaging readers and money, a diminished Sun can no longer afford such hubris.You might say the same about Britain’s Conservatives. The political machine that dominated British politics
From Dream to Nightmare (opens the original)
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At first sight there is no obvious link between central bank intervention to support the Japanese Yen on international currency markets and a mutual defence pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Yet, as disconnected as they seem, the two events eloquently describe both sides of the coin of waning American power: the self-defeating arrogance of Donald Trump’s unilateralism and the price US is paying in lost trust and influence.The Federal Reserve’s attempt in concert with the Bank of
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