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Property Rights, Sanctions and the Abramovich Test for Britain

Britain’s push to force the release of £2.5bn from Roman Abramovich’s Chelsea sale tests a principle older than sanctions or war: that property rights in English law are protected from political seizure. The outcome…

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Germanys Moral Propaganda Machine

Germany once promised that memory would protect it from future crimes. Instead, guilt has hardened into a civil…

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How Trump’s War on Imports Turned Into a War on His Own Voters

Trump’s second term economy looks respectable on paper. Growth is positive, unemployment is low and an artificial intelligence boom is lifting Wall Street. Yet prices remain far above their pre pandemic level and Liberation…

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The Simple Ugly Truth Behind Trump’s Ukraine Deal

Ukraine is being boxed in by three forces at once: a corruption scandal that reaches into Zelensky’s old circle, a peace plan drafted between Washington and Moscow, and a frontline that is creeping the…

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Elections Without Consent

Markets soar, jobs shrink, and faith in the system collapses beneath the curve Democratic wins read as momentum on the…