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Notes from a small island
How Britain misunderstood the European project. A review of ‘The Europe Dilemma’
The best of times is making way for the worst
Globalisation’s great prosperity sits beside the risks that accompany the passing of an old order
- IMF pledges $14bn-$18bn for Ukraine
- Leszek Balcerowicz Ukraine can flourish
Russia’s test for America’s odd couple
Ukraine presents both danger and opportunity to the analyst Obama and the activist Kerry
Bank that got away with it
Mark Carney’s radical shake-up is an uncomfortable reminder failure is sometimes richly rewarded
Crimea proves contradictions of ‘self-rule’
Secession cannot be used to stage territorial grabs, and the process must respect local constitutions
The answer to Putin is support for Ukraine
It is time for Europeans and Americans to open their wallets to the new government in Kiev
Miliband closes route to Britain’s EU exit
Labour leader removes ‘referendum risk’ that hung over the prospect of his party’s election victory
Visa bans will not deter Putin
In its own mind Moscow can break any rule it likes and then deny the fact of the transgression
Russia’s invasion marks Putin’s failure
Vanity has always trumped strategic logic in president’s foreign policy
Merkel will not bend EU rules for Britain
The union will always be a club that the UK does not lead
Europe needs to stop hiding under the covers
The continent must wake up to the costs of illegal migration, jihadi terrorism and global crime
How to find the needle in Snowden’s haystack
Revelations yet to cast spooks as threat to our freedom
Yellen, tapering and a moribund G20
Interdependence cannot be wished away; rising world turbulence may yet exact a toll on the US
English make case for Britain’s break-up
Where is the admission that England has something to lose from Scotland’s departure?
India is still in the great Asian race
The chaos of democracy blunts the impulses that once held the threat of break-up
Britain and France are in the same boat
Cross-Channel rivalry cannot hide the reality that any ideas about superiority are misplaced
Nothing can dent bankers’ divine right
Multimillion-dollar bonuses are still given even as multibillion-dollar fines are shrugged off
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Philip Stephens is a commentator and author. He is associate editor of the Financial Times where as chief political commentator he writes twice-weekly columns on global and British affairs.
He joined the Financial Times in 1983 after working as a correspondent for Reuters in Brussels and has been the FT’s Economics Editor, Political Editor and Editor of the UK edition. He was educated at Wimbledon College and at Oxford university.
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