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Boris Johnson needs a chief of staff less urgently than he needs a philosophy. Downing Street, supposedly the nerve centre of government, resembles a black
Ahead of this week’s US elections the air was thick with warnings and predictions of a meltdown of the democratic process in America. Even Chinese
With sherpas in tunnels and similar hobbit-like phenomena dominating the political landscape, there is an almost Tolkien atmosphere to the endgame in any EU negotiations.
Behind all the white noise generated by soundbites, uncompromising-sounding statements aimed at reassuring interested constituencies, and the accustomed sabre-rattling, a note of cautious but substantive
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