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By now, the British people would have new fears arising from the Brexit referendum. It is obvious that the people who voted for 'Leave EU' are the poorer people and people who are feeling the pressure from immigrants who are taking away jobs from them. This means that if remain in EU can lead to more jobs, UK would not want to leave EU. It's the jobs, stupid! Every politician that does not know this is either stupid or naive. This explains the popularity of Donald Trump too. Since we cannot reverse history, we have to live with the consequences of leaving EU. The only way forward for UK is to create more jobs. How? In fact leaving EU means that UK will enjoy fewer export and business opportunities in Europe, and will become a costlier place as imports will become dearer with the declining pound. This will lead to fewer jobs. How? One way is to forget about creating jobs and instead focus on creating business opportunities and make people become entrepreneurs, not employ...

S N Venkat is senior associate director, Office of Postgraduate Professional Programme, Singapore Management University At the end of the first set of United States presidential primaries, and as Super Tuesday — the biggest primary election — starts today, it is becoming clear there is a real possibility that billionaire Donald Trump may be the Republican presidential candidate this year. While it might have taken many political pundits by surprise, there were some, like the creator of the famous Dilbert comic strip, American cartoonist Scott Adams, who warned in 2015 that there was a method to Mr Trump’s apparent madness and that it came from the art of persuasion. There are scholarly attempts to explain them, based on well-known books on the subject such as Mr Robert Cialdini’s Influence — The Psychology of Persuasion, but what explains Mr Trump’s method is one simple sentence. Mr Blair Warren, author of the e-book The One Sentence Persuasion Course — 27 Words To Make ...