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Without his tribe, Boris Johnson shrank before our eyes

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Is Xi adroit enough to broker peace?

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How do you kill off a strongman? How do you drain the political life from the brand of nationalist-populist leader that’s dominated politics across the democratic world in recent times? Last week, we may just have got an answer.

Never say never and all that, but we watched the air go out of the Boris Johnson balloon, the UK’s former prime minister deflating before our eyes. While his fellow rightwing populists, the likes of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, continue to wreak or threaten havoc, it’s instructive

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