Bloomberg British PM Boris Johnson tweeted that he’s looking forward to releasing the Tory party’s manifesto on Sunday, less than three weeks before the country goes to the polls. Johnson said the manifesto will respect the Brexit referendum and allow the government to focus on delivering “real benefits” to the nation. The tweet followed an appearance by Johnson and the ...

Bloomberg Bogota was placed under curfew for the first time in decades as Colombia became the latest Andean nation to be convulsed by violent anti-government protests. The mayor’s office instituted a city-wide curfew, as demonstrators clashed with security forces a day after a nationwide strike. Masked youths fought with police, and there were outbreaks of looting and vandalism in many ...

The most favourable thing that can be said of President Trump’s 2017 tax cut — whose cost is reckoned at roughly $1.5 trillion over a decade — is that it disappointed. A harsher but perhaps more accurate judgment is that it flopped. It didn’t perform as advertised. This is not just a verdict on the past; it’s also a warning ...