Our populist leaders boast of exceptionalism while continuing to corrode crucial alliances.

In the last six months, Liam Fox has been on a whistle-stop tour of authoritarian regimes.

Nowadays, Britain’s words and actions on the world stage are so at odds with its values that one must wonder what has happened to the country. Since the June 2016 Brexit referendum, British foreign policy seems to have all but collapsed — and even to have disowned its past and its governing ideas.

The general election will be the point of no return for the UK in the current phase of its decline, and the US is heading in the same direction.

The reality of Brexit dashes UK hopes to be a major EV player.

Boris Johnson chronically confuses culture and economics of affair called Brexit.

My daughter is right: she should raise her children in Germany rather than Boris Johnson’s increasingly debased Britain.

Boris Johnson’s team isn’t going to let economic models get in the way of a political revolution.

It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.

It is increasingly evident that leaving the European Union — the world’s richest single market — was a monumental act of self-harm for the UK. African countries should take heed and cooperate to ensure the success of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

A summit crucial to the issue of climate change is instead mired in disentangling the mess of Britain’s exit from the EU

‘One of the biggest blows to our productivity – and a self-inflicted one – was leaving Europe’s single market,’ says Michael Day.

In a world of superpower rivalry, the UK must urgently rebuild the strategic alliances that were sabotaged by its departure from the EU.

‘Global Britain’ can only become a reality if Johnson rebuilds his links with European partners.

In just the first few months of 2021, the UK has slashed its overseas aid budget, made clear its intent to pursue trade deals at all costs – including turning a blind eye to human rights atrocities and genocide – and announced an increase in funding to the UK’s weapons of mass destruction by 40%, signalling the start of a new arms race and ripping up 30 years of commitment to gradual disarmament.

‘Global Britain’ now apparently means making silly gestures and pretending to be more powerful than we are, at enormous cost to our economic well-being.

Boris Johnson’s rotten regime has not covered itself in glory. / For an un-jaundiced sense of how post-Brexit – sorry Global – Britain is viewed from abroad as the wheels fall off Boris Johnson’s rotten regime, Italy is a good place to start.