Opinion
Paul Johnston: Growth to slow as countries seduced by false allure of protectionism
We now sees Beijing as a competitor, challenger and rival, as well as a partner in certain, important, areas
“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”
Those lines open a poem quoted by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas broadcast, to a country facing war for the second time in a generation.
The outlook today is less catastrophic. But the end of the old year brings little comfort or joy. War rages in Europe, something ...