President Zardari after his meeting with David Cameron at Chequers. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP It looked certain to qualify as the one of the most disastrous presidential foreign tours of all time. Day after day, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s accident-prone president, seemed to blunder from one PR or foreign policy catastrophe to the next. But today [...]

Business team: Lord Hanson and Lord White at a Hanson AGM in 1992. Photograph: Garry Weaser for the Guardian The first 100 days of the Cameron-Clegg political partnership set me musing about double acts in business. There have been famous ones in the past: the predatory Lords Hanson and White...