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Issue of the week: a Budget for business? ...

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

Companies in the news ...and how they were assessed

Matthew Partridge: It has now been nearly 25 years since you coined the term Brics for Brazil, Russia, India and China, and the four nations have embarked on very different trajectories. Which one do

The long run-up to the Budget gave rise to fevered and increasingly alarmist speculation about its contents. This descended into chaos as frantic lobbying by interested parties, dire warnings by exper

Global markets and the new illiberalism