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Go woke, go broke

WITH DONALD Trump’s improbable plotline so dominating the American political soap opera, little attention is being paid to the other characters seeking the Republican nomination for the White House.

There is, however, one candidate who deserves to be better known on this side of the pond, not so much for his potential as a future leader of the free world, but more for his perceptive analysis of what has gone wrong with Western business over the past decade. Despite never having held public office, the biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is

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