The Berlaymont building illuminated with the colours of the French flag.
Business Spectator

Europe can’t afford weak leaders

Europe’s centre-right has instead embarked on the task of presenting themselves as the nicer social-democrats, purging themselves of any trace economic liberalism and any old-fashioned conservative instincts.

Nhial Deng Nhial and Kevin Rudd (2).
The Australian

Clueless road to serfdom

THE great sociologist Max Weber once defined the art of politics as “a strong and slow boring of hard boards” that required “both passion and perspective”.