"Bootle and Mills believe in “permanent devaluation”. Is there any exchange rate they regard as too low?"

"Putin revels in others’ weakness. A man with a facelift who poses bare-chested on horseback is not a well man"

"Politics goes bad when ideas go bad and the ideas have gone bad in Europe because free speech went bad"

"Like the moon, every religion has a dark and a light side. The most enduring perversions of faith always claim scriptural authority"

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Die Welt reported that Brexit has meant high-street businesses going bust. They couldn't be more wrong