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At the Battle of Ideas last Saturday, a panel on "populism" spent an hour and a half discussing everything except economics. Sherelle Jacobs of the Telegraph called for the Tory party to replace what she called a "twisted morality of sacrifice and dependency" with the "Judaeo-Christian" values of thrift and personal responsibility. And when a brave audience member asked "shouldn't we be discussing economics?" Tom Slater of Spiked brushed him off and carried on talking about cultural issues....

Jul 19, 2022 ROBERT SKIDELSKY Although words like “unprincipled,” “amoral,” and “serial liar” seem to describe the outgoing British prime minister accurately, they accurately describe more successful political leaders as well. To explain Johnson’s fall, we need to consider two factors specific to our times. LONDON – Nearly all political careers end in failure, but Boris Johnson is the first British prime minister to be toppled for scandalous behavior. That should worry us. The...

Video and story.This is turning into farce.Is Boris Johnson trying to live down the common Russian name Boris?The London EconomicWatch: Jeremy Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of misleading public on the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia SkripalSee alsoRussian and Eurasian PoliticsPutin, Skrypal, Novichok, and Spy Markets: UPDATEGordon M. Hahn, analyst and Advisory Board member at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation, member of the Executive Advisory Board at the American Institute of Geostrategy,...

It’s shocking when Boris Johnson, more or less, makes more sense than some leftists on the European Union. [embedded content]Even a leftist like George Galloway is saying many of the same things as Boris Johnson:[embedded content]