Business in well-regulated markets trumps politics. That’s a good thing

By Jack Pringle2018-11-20T07:00:00

As our politicians prepare to cut the UK from its neighbours, the world of commerce continues to march the opposite way – towards ever greater international co-operation

I am writing this on 11 November 2018: the centenary of the end of the war to end all wars. Except it didn’t. Trump is over from the US for the commemoration, Macron and Merkel are embracing and the radio is full of tales from the First and Second World Wars.

I can’t help noticing the irony that at this very moment the other stories the radio is broadcasting are of our attempts to get out of the EU, the very institution set up after the Second World War to make sure that war could never happen in Europe again.

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