UK prime minister has a chance but may not seize it

This is what happens when parliamentary democracies shuffle off responsibility

A less dependable US leaves Britain and the EU vulnerable to China’s blandishments

The gradual journey to withdrawal has become a sudden leap for clarity and conclusion

Britain will be granted influence only to the extent that it signs up again to EU rules

The president is not alone in thinking that the US does better to look after itself

Voters and business leaders betray a similar ambivalence about an uncertain future

Governments must accept that it is too late to return to business as usual

Clarity on Britain’s future relationship with the EU is a long way off

Once the fog of Brexit clears, they will rediscover they are actually quite alike

Gradualists and moderates are a dwindling band in the Conservative party

It should be clear by now that the UK is nowhere near ready to leave the EU

One response on Beijing’s part would be to recognise the risk of a broader clash

The implosion of the western banking system was a stroke of good fortune

The Labour leader has abandoned centrism and taken the party into different territory

The ‘hard working classes’ so beloved of politicians were the victims of the crash

Short-term pain disguises the fact that Beijing benefits from the US’s global retreat

Time to prepare for a crash exit next March by hoarding the finest European produce

In the US, UK and France voters seek solace in old, imagined certainties

Tory hardliners fail to grasp that the EU would set the terms of a no-deal rupture

Brexiters promote the delusion Britain and the US can recreate a mythical partnership

Russia and China will be the big winners from the end of US leadership

Some say another referendum would be divisive, but Britain is already deeply split

Cheering populists elsewhere should be careful what they wish for