In France, they call it taking mustard after dinner. In Germany, they talk about a child having already fallen in the well. In England, they speak of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. They all are good ways of describing how regulators have tended to deal with the world’s biggest tech firms. But when it comes to ...

Post-Brexit, the UK will have a historic opportunity to strike a trade deal with one of the world’s fastest-growing regions and prove that it can shed European red tape and protectionism. The key is to rethink the European Union’s policy on palm oil. In 2017, the European Parliament approved a resolution to phase out and eventually ban biofuels made from ...

If UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson seems rather glib about the idea of his country crashing out of the European Union without a deal — an outcome that myriad authoritative bodies have predicted will be highly costly for the UK economy — it is most likely because there is something he fears more than that. Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is ...