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The way the pound rebounded does not reflect long-term confidence in the currency.
May is clinging to the glory days as she prepares for Brexit.
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The PM is overestimating Brexit Britain’s place in the world as she boldly strides out of the single market.
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The effects of a sovereign credit rating downgrade would be painful for all South Africans.
May takes a hard line on Brexit.
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The UK prime minister is squaring up to European negotiators in pledging a hard Brexit. But is she overplaying her hand?
Theresa May goes global.
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The UK’s decision to leave the single market and customs union will have huge consequences.
Part of a mural commemorating the 1936 Battle of Cable Street.
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The ‘hero’ of one year can prove to be the villain of later ones.
Trade dealer in chief.
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President-elect Donald Trump has offered the UK a quick post-Brexit trade deal but he’ll face some legal hurdles to make it happen.
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When politicians win by stoking nationalism and isolationism, who will be brave enough to walk the harder path?
Is the new PM unravelling?
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As pressure mounts, the prime minister needs to prove that her thinking is not ‘muddled’ on some key issues.
‘My fellow disenfranchised Americans …’
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New measure of 32 countries’ economic balance places UK and US near bottom of the pile.
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Buzzfeed is being damned for publishing unverified and salacious information about the president-elect, raising questions about media ethics in the digital world.
Corbyn’s first big speech of the year was full of contradictions.
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It’s not going to be easy to square this circle, but the Labour leader isn’t presenting a meaningful post-Brexit vision.
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MPs have proposed Britain follows Canada’s model allowing regions to decide how many immigrants they let in.
New hat, new plan.
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The plan is to start again in 2017, but the Labour leader’s key messages are still too vague.
The Malta free port, built in 1988.
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As Europe discusses the reasons behind and reaction to the Brexit thunderclap, some in the UK are already seeing business opportunities – through the free ports, a notion abandoned by the EU.
In peril?
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Academics have little confidence in the current higher education reforms.
Everyone in their place.
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It’s a nice idea: a society where people are judged on merit alone. But it remains a fiction.
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Copeland has been Labour for more than 30 years, but these are not normal times and this is no ordinary by-election.
The changing landscape of UK higher education.
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The Higher Education and Research Bill is well overdue, but is now really the right time to make huge changes to the sector?
Rock and roll.
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George Kerevan, Stephen Boyd and Katherine Trebeck see a world where employees are treated like just-in-time inventory.