Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.
The legacy of the Fujimorista regime has shaped Peru to this day, and has been far more pervasive and corrosive than General Velasco’s.
Confessions of use in their youth by politicians raises the case for controlled legalisation – at least of ‘soft’ substances, if not yet of hard ones.
A new book about Holocaust and climate change denial also casts light on the American President.
The Republican base which is so staunchly loyal to its president shows no sign of wavering over an issue that candidate Trump was persistently vocal about.
It’s time for us to acknowledge that it is a response to our own failures – and to listen to voters who are opting for it.
It can be hard to look past the President’s excesses – but the realities of government and the economy tell a more mixed story than you might assume.
We will have a pro-Leave President and may get a trade deal. But we face a threat to the security umbrella that has protected us and our neighbours since the war.
“As we leave the EU, Britain will seek to become the global leader in free trade.”
And evidence from abroad suggests that it will fail in its declared aim of reducing obesity.
We should be increasing our export ambitions and the support that government gives companies in entering these global markets.