UKIP leader Paul Nuttall.
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Immigration targets are based on a lack of understanding of the UK’s labour needs and could seriously damage the economy.
For almost all of its cumbersome history, the British Empire was a very ramshackle affair.
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Australia ingratiating itself into a post-Brexit, British-instigated Anglosphere would be a futile exercise in counterproductive nostalgia.
The UK’s future trade deals will be subject to EU member state approval.
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It’s likely that a future UK-EU trade deal will be subject to approval by all EU member states and their sub-national parliaments.
Team Macron is ready to talk. You pick the language.
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President Macron is known for his excellent grasp of English, but his top team are also rather good at German.
You need to know what each party is promising but who has the time to read through all their programmes for government? We did so you don't have to.
Little Britain.
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Welcome to the new Wild West.
War, Ford, fascism, Reaganomics, the pink tide, the EU, debt crises, rights-based activism, a fierce backlash… none of this is new.
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We may think of current reactionary politics as radical and new, but unchecked mercantilism has always elicited a fierce backlash from both left and right. Here’s what history tells us about today.
Theresa May is at the helm of a more global post-Brexit Britain.
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The concept of ‘the Anglosphere’ gained in importance after the Brexit referendum as an alternative to the EU – and it could now impact Anglo nations, like Australia.
Is the sun setting on globalisation?
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A fundamental insight into the distributive effects of free trade from almost 90 years ago.
Sweden performs in the 2017 Eurovision grand final.
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As always, Eurovision 2017 blended pop and politics. Russia was missing from the Ukrainian-hosted contest, and the UK had healing words, post Brexit.
Expert analysis of the leaked Labour party manifesto and how the parties are trying to manage their media messaging.
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Through subtle parallels to our own lives and choices, literature can help us make sense of political upheavals.
English: the EU’s new lingua franca?
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The English language will be one of the most important things the UK leaves behind in the EU.
Getting down to business.
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If the UK fails to maintain its global outlook, it could lose business to a globalist France.
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As the media again become a battleground in this election, what can we learn from how the Brexit campaign was covered?
He comes in peace.
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He is a strident europhile, but that doesn’t mean France’s new leader is out to punish the UK for Brexit.
Riding a wave.
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Those who voted No in the indyref were never as anti-blue as is often believed.
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A sense of renewal and purpose in the prize sparked by a lifting of the age limit and looking beyond London.
Macron votes.
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Being president of France won’t be easy for Emmanuel Macron. Without the support of an established political party, his legislative agenda may go nowhere fast.
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Though the Common Agricultural Policy has few friends, it will be incredibly tough to replace it with something better.