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Another Brexit dividend: Suppliers are running scared of doing business with Britain
Manufacturers say fears over red tape and political chaos are creating more uncertainty
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Is Oakeshott treading on thin legal ice?
The latest gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
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Šefčovič’s loose lips could signal trouble for Rishi Sunak
The glowing headlines of less than a week ago seem considerably further away for the prime minister
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Portugal: The canary in the digital nomad coal mine?
The country’s capital, Lisbon, is buckling under the weight of visitors, including a new generation of ‘desirable’ migrants
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The tip of the iceberg
Why the crazy 15-minute city conspiracy theory is no laughing matter
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Beyond the Windsor Framework: 5 steps for resetting our relationship with the EU
The government would do well to avoid exacerbating the current crises and heed this advice
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Him again
We all know what he’s up to
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Everyday Philosophy: The importance of symbolic gestures
Why tranquil indifference is not the answer to the world's problems
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Wideangle: What’s happening to Europe’s postal services?
How the frequency and reliability of mail delivery varies across the continent
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Germansplaining: The cancelling of Otto von Bismarck
The country is divided over the ‘iron chancellor’, feminist foreign policy and Putin’s ‘manifesto for peace’
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Once upon a time in Sicily
A notorious mafia killer is now behind bars – but why did it take so long to catch him?
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Meta’s metaverse: On this evidence, the future is a bleak, cumbersome nightmare
Mark Zuckerberg has already spent $20bn on his new virtual reality project, and it’s boring, empty and clunky
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Scotland has everything it needs to thrive alone
The UK government’s figures are pure fiction, designed to frighten us off seeking independence
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When Europe went nuclear
The UK was at the forefront of developing nuclear energy. How then did it fall so far behind France? And is it ripe for a comeback?
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Jimmy Carter, the Man from Plains
Some say that had the 39th president died in 1982, for example, he would have been forgotten, written off as a failure. Now he has a legacy
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Brexit Avengers assemble for the Infinite Culture Wars
Your favourites unite for Brexit Avengers: Infinite Culture Wars! Coming soon, whether you like it or not...
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Sunak has let slip the truth about the single market. Brexit will never be the same again
Now the rest of Britain will ask, ‘if it’s so great, why aren't we in it too?’
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I’m happy Steve Baker’s got closure – now, what about the rest of us?
The ex-‘Brexit hard man’ hopes his mental struggles are now over, yet millions continue to suffer because of policies he espoused
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Alastair Campbell’s Diary: Thérèse “Let them eat turnip” Coffey is channelling Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was probably deeply upset by her fate. The environment secretary, however, appears unbothered by the current state of affairs
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Is Brexit fucking us up? Or is it the weather?
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Poland will outgrow Britain unless we break our addiction to tax cuts
Keir Starmer’s target is laudable, but it requires a political sea change
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Boris Johnson plays down his spending
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Brussels sealed the deal… but can Sunak sell it?
The EU is watching what comes next with hope… and some scepticism
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The region that’s experimenting with government by lottery
In east Belgium, a committed group of democrats are experimenting with sortition – government chosen by lottery
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Could a change of government keep the young in Nigeria?
Challenger Peter Obi promises a fresh start for the crisis-hit country
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Is hydrogen the answer to the climate emergency?
It could be the key to a greener future - but substantial concerns remain
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Border town: hope and fear in the ‘Calais of Italy’
On the frontier between Italy and France, the desperate brave the passage of death
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A failing government in a hurry
The race to remove European laws from the British statute book is happening for the worst of reasons
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China’s admission of failure
Xi and Putin thought they could shatter the post-1945 world. They were wrong
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Boris Johnson’s latest intervention is more bad news for Sunak’s deal
The former prime minister shows he is only interested in himself, not Northern Ireland
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The pen and the sword in Ukraine
The exiled reporter who turned soldier to fight against Putin’s invaders
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Sunak’s weakness could allow hard Brexiters to strip away our human rights
Pulling Britain out of the ECHR to appease his party’s hardliners would be a disaster