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Janan GaneshFinancial Times |
His enthusiasm for big business and foreign intervention is more Reaganite than populist
Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins
The important conflicts today take place inside cultural-religious blocs, not between them
On birth rates, the lockdown and above all Brexit, the right is out of touch with the public
Starmer and Reeves are unfit and their likeliest usurpers are worse
The metropolis and the heartland provoke each other into extremes, as the New York mayoral race shows
A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent
The future, like the recent past, will be shaped in the public realm
Lessons from a pivot to Asia that never comes
It will take buyer’s remorse about Labour and fear of the economic consequences of Nigel Farage
Surrendering on trade is worth it to keep America engaged in the continent’s security
A hatred of interference in national affairs disappears when American conservatives are doing it
There is nothing to gain for the Reform UK leader, so why does he do it?
If another government disappoints, voters might accept that painful reform of the state is needed
Liberals focus too much on constitutions and too little on politics
He supports Europe enough to make it complacent but not enough to make it safe
Tariffs, Nimbyism, high debt — the victims of these things don’t even know what they’re losing
In all likelihood, it is downhill for the US president from here
The country has serious problems but the right’s vision of it has become hysterical
The advanced age of leaders is a destabilising force in international politics
A summer of splits shows what post-Trump conservatism will look like
In a war-footing Europe, London-Paris might become what Paris-Berlin was in the era of peace
The UK prime minister is weak but Labour MPs are deluded about fiscal reality
The bombing of Iran suggests that a global role is a hard thing to give up
The British state in particular is unreformable without pressure from the bond markets
The party’s real problem is a consistent tolerance of obvious losers
From South Africa to Europe, the movement is absolutely obsessed with foreign countries
Like a poorer Switzerland, the UK will never find a happy balance of independence and access
Having said it was paramount, the UK government now has half a dozen ‘number one’ priorities
The revolt against him isn’t huge, and it isn’t about constitutional principle
Mark Carney shows how to be moderate in substance and populist in style
The Conservatives must choose between their US obsession and their electoral viability
Western leaders who are said to be on special terms with the US president have nothing to show for it
Not since the crash of 2008 has free trade held the moral and intellectual high ground
Attempts to read grand strategy into the US president’s doings have run their course
Talk of Donald Trump bringing the continent together is absurdly premature
A president who can’t run again is freer from public opinion than business seems to realise
There is no way of defending the continent without cuts to social spending
The lesson of this world-changing month is that geography matters — despite what the Brexit campaign claimed
Trade is wrongly blamed for the relative decline of the US
The tariff row is further indication that he is quick to quarrel but also quick to settle
Elon Musk will find the European right more statist than some progressives at home
Having supposedly worried too much about him last time, people are overcorrecting
Almost everyone in politics has something they prioritise over it
Small countries have the best outcomes, while the few giants shape the globe
Voters can’t be sold on change until their nation is in acute trouble
If it did, the US should have much healthier politics than Europe
Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots
The Democrats might decide that playing by the rules has got them nowhere
Europe’s bloated governments need his efficiency revolution much more than Washington does
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