Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph
A thumping win for Boris Johnson’s Tory party is more complex than it seems; the returns cast a light on changes bubbling under the surface of the country’s politics. A renewed push for land restitution in Kenya is making life hard for foreign firms. A...
December 13, 2019
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Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph
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