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Global markets and the new illiberalism

LETTERS

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

“The difference between death and taxes is, death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” The American actor and commentator Will Rogers didn’t have to wrestle with British Isas and pensions, bu

“Is Britain having a collective nervous breakdown?” asks Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times. Almost two-thirds of voters think we are heading in the wrong direction, while our government has “go

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