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LETTERS

Donald Trump is flailing, and no wonder. He was not elected to shoot nurses or raise healthcare costs for ordinary Americans while cutting taxes for billionaires. Yet the Democratic party’s elderly, w

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Has the United States always been an imperial power? Edward Stourton offers his insight on the history of the Land of the Free

On the face of it, Taiwan seems an unlikely location for a tech superpower as it is a small island with a population that is not even half that of Britain’s. But “just as some small countries have man

The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat