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Our Washington, Westminster and Whitehall insiders share the political inside track with Chronicle readers

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Trump won’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – whether or not he deserves it

by James Snell | May 18, 2018

There we have it. The date and time for Donald Trump’s meeting with the Kim Jong-un are set. It was announced when Trump’s newly appointed secretary of state, Mike Pompeo,...

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What happens to oil if Trump tears up the Iran deal?

by Suhaib Kebhaj and Joseph Hammond | May 14, 2018

For all Boris Johnson’s best efforts to persuade him otherwise, President Trump seems likely to pull the United States out of the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, formally known...

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Marx’s defenders should explain why his ideas never actually work

by Kristian Niemietz | May 10, 2018

This week will mark the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. It will be an occasion for a deluge of articles repeating the well-worn cliché that even though Marx’s predictions ultimately...

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Brussels still refuses to face up the fiscal reality of Brexit

by Kai Weiss | May 9, 2018

The EU budget frenzy of (at least) one year has officially begun. Today, the European Commission, led by Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger, revealed the first proposal for...

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The latest inside news from Westminster

by Adrian Pepper | May 1, 2018

The Prime Minister’s decision to appoint Sajid Javid to take over from Amber Rudd as Home Secretary was shrewd. He was the one member of the Cabinet with the credibility to...

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A free trade future for Africa

by William Davison | May 1, 2018

While President Trump has been preparing to rock the global trading system with aggressive moves to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, African leaders have been moving in a very...

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Tackling the myths about Brexit and the customs union

by Pieter Cleppe | Apr 30, 2018

Wild theories are doing the rounds about whether Britain should or should not join a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit. Unsurprisingly, Remain supporters have...

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The card that could help the UK boost ties with the Commonwealth

by Andrew MacLeod | Apr 24, 2018

This week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting comes at a crucial juncture for the UK’s future as a trading nation. Does Brexit change the way Britain should approach the...

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The seductive simplicity of blaming Trump’s win on Cambridge Analytica

by AlexMassie | Apr 3, 2018

For the last two years, on both sides of the Atlantic, liberals and other concerned citizens have spent their time searching for an answer to the agonising, appalling, question...