The ruling Conservatives’ efforts to big up their paltry free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand took something of a comic turn this week, with the revelation that the UK Government was shipping signed copies of The Beano to the two countries.

Having cut Britain adrift of Europe, Brexiters are indulging in an old fantasy about a new national role in the world—as the hub of a far-flung Anglosphere.

The Chancellor and Prime Minister need a plan to counter figures showing lower growth after the hit to EU trade.

Boris Johnson’s government is waging a war of words not against the EU but the British people.

How Britain resolves — or fails to resolve — Brexit and the terms of its divorce from Europe, is of more than passing interest to Australia.

Australians want the UK to do well. But there’s no way free trade with us or others can make up for the hit of leaving the EU.