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Bermuda’s business leaders have pledged support for the Bermuda Government’s efforts to remove the island from the European Union’s list of noncooperative tax jurisdictions. The head of Bermuda’s largest trade organisation, meanwhile, said that he is...

Elements of the 2016 British referendum campaign have long seemed familiar to Americans. There was a close, controversial election, full of rancour and anger. There were a lot of wealthy men talking about “the people” and their “will”. There were tar...

A meeting of European Union ambassadors will today consider whether Bermuda and nine other jurisdictions should be added to the EU’s blacklist of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The meeting was scheduled to have been held on Wednesday, but was pos...

While the European Union ponders blacklisting Bermuda, a committee of the European Parliament has found that a quarter of the EU’s member states behave like tax havens. The special tax committee, compiled by MEPs from across the political spectrum af...

Bermuda has been added to a draft tax haven blacklist by the European Union, along with nine other jurisdictions, according to Reuters. The news agency said it had been told by an EU official that the island, together with the United Arab Emirates, O...

Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, who declared his intention to run for president last week, gave an interview on Monday morning with CBS. One particular remark caught my attention. “We don’t need a president that’s going to put do...

Democrats and “Never Trump” Republicans could not be more emphatic about former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz’s possible independent presidential run. The Bulwark’s editor-in-chief, Bill Kristol, who began advocating for a primary challen...

Even this White House, infamous for self-delusion, must realise that it is in deep trouble. Two more polls released yesterday show the depth of Donald Trump’s problem. The Morning Consult-Politico poll finds that “57 per cent of registered voters dis...

The Syrian Government is on the verge of total victory in its civil war and is planning for what comes next. But the Syrian regime is still committing atrocities against civilians, and Assad’s jails are overflowing — and it continues to hold at least...

It’s not just in the United States. The counter-revolution to populism is happening all over the world, and it’s turning the old left-right political axis on its head. In country after country, the rise of anti-immigrant parties or movements is forci...

From the moment he launched his campaign for president, Donald Trump compared the barrier he wanted to build along the United States southern border to China’s Great Wall. With the US Government now shuttered by the stand-off over funding Trump’s wal...

With thousands of American federal workers left without paycheques, as Donald Trump carried out his threat to shut down the United States Government for not being given $5 billion to build a wall along the Mexican border, much of America is in a stat...