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The Covid-19 crisis and the virtues of an active state

In 2014, as the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer sought to take over AstraZeneca, the UK’s second largest ­pharmaceutical company, the British government insisted it would not intervene. David Cameron and George Osborne suggested that the bid was purely a commercial matter for shareholders and refused to ­apply a “public interest test”. …

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Letter of the week: The sovereignty sham

Philip Collins writes that “sovereignty-obsessives” are “the sponsors of Brexit” (The Public Square, 4 December). One day after 1 January 2021, once we have left a trading partnership with the EU, they will wake up and look around. Hoping to find a free, unfettered England, they will see that Royal …

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