To govern is to choose. So what have Labour’s ministers chosen to hung on their walls? Raiding the Government Art Collection ...

Truly, satire is dead. The new US President certainly hit the ground running. Stopping almost all foreign aid (rich donees don’t need it, in poor countries it ends up in Swiss bank accounts).

“Rachel Reeves is thinking the right way but she’s in a difficult position,” said a senior UK bank executive in Davos .

Britain has “no choice” but to engage with China if the government is to meet its mission of growing the economy, Reeves wrote in an op-ed for the Times at the weekend. “Reeves: UK needs China” was ...