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Extreme weather events will dominate everyday economics unless economics itself embraces climate. Can Corbyn’s collective, inclusive approach get us out of the mess, asks ALAN SIMPSON

Hurricane Corbyn must be the only good news story in a season of storms.

In Germany, the SPD may not have deserved to win, but Angela Merkel never deserved to have the far-right AfD party strung round her neck for the coming parliament. 

In Britain, Theresa May’s future US-British trade agreement delusions were kicked into touch by Donald Trump’s 220 per cent tax hit on Bombardier planes; so much for British jobs being safer in the embrace of Trumpland. 

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