Lionel Laurent

It is now planning for all sorts of potentially bleak scenarios as global economic resilience is tested

Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella are pitching themselves as providential leaders who could work miracles if given half a chance

The exodus of talent from the UK and elsewhere is real; efforts to stem it need to be equally genuine

The lesson for the EU is it must address the dependencies that help the bullying work

A rise in physical attacks on digital-asset holders says a lot about the trade-offs of a cashless society

Gobs of government cash are unable to rouse Europe, with the Ukraine war and US-China competition still battering energy-intensive sectors