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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is investigating his military’s most powerful officer. Is it a political coup or a further bid to clear out corruption?

Is this the age of dictators?” asked veteran journalist Sir Sidney Low. He was writing in September 1923, the month in which a military coup brought Miguel Primo de Rivera to power in Spain. At the sa

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In view of the popularity of catastrophising in the UK, The Great Crashes by Professor Linda Yueh should have no trouble finding a ready audience here. Its subtitle, Lessons from global meltdowns and

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