Lessons from communism

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

The communist conquest of China in 1949 was one of the most consequential – and surprising – geopolitical events of the 20th century. It shifted the world’s most populous country from the western to t

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

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At the start of June 2013, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) appeared to be dead in the water. It was almost 18 months since the then European commissioner for justice, Vi

Cahillane’s secret sauce: Since September, Kraft Heinz had been planning to split its better-performing condiments and boxed goods, such as Heinz Ketchup, from its slower-growing food brands, which in