From pig farming to climate change, the government is talking itself up even as it ignores the gathering threats and undermines global action in the name of ‘free trade’.
This week the Prime Minister committed the UK to "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050. But the "independent trade" policies supported by her likely successors include a key mechanism to stop environmental efforts.
A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate new trade deals covering large chunks of the economy – so it’s time for far more focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them.
From the outside, the Swedish snub to the Saudi royals looks like a big triumph for women’s rights over commercial pressures. Close up, the ethical picture is a little muddier.
Afghanistan was not always the abyss it’s thought to be today. If it is to be stabilised, it needs to resume its position as a transit between its many neighbours. Washington, however, remains over-dependent on Pakistani routes to Afghanistan for fear of increasing Iranian influence and in so doin
