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The EU should play its Russian assets card

There are ways to overcome a Belgian block and provide game-changing support to Kyiv

yesterday 10

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The Editorial Board

Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America

The EU must make itself minimally vulnerable to inevitable US pressure

yesterday 3

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Martin Sandbu

Doge, crypto and the end of the lol era

Running the White House and launching memecoins once seemed so simple — more than that, it seemed hilarious

yesterday 2

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Jemima Kelly

Labour has already broken its manifesto commitments

Tax rises, instability and a lack of pro-growth measures contravene the party’s election platform

yesterday 2

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Tej Parikh

How London’s housing market stagnated

The introduction of a so-called mansion tax in this year’s Budget is likely to depress prices in some parts of the capital even further

previous day 10

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The Big Read

Trial by jury is a right that needs protecting

Beware of restricting it to tackle England’s huge backlog of criminal cases

previous day 10

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The Editorial Board

Labour has trapped the British economy in a web of ‘doublespeak’

Reeves’ Budget shows she’s serious about spending other people’s money — but not about growth or jobs

previous day 10

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Camilla Cavendish

Ukraine’s Catch-22 moment

Kyiv’s choices are between bad now and worse later

previous day 10

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Franz-Stefan Gady

How the pope went pop

Efforts to attract young audiences to religion can be fraught but pizza-loving, Wordle-playing Leo XIV has struck a chord

previous day 3

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Amy Kazmin

Dan Driscoll, the unlikely Ukraine envoy with his eye on the Pentagon

The ambitious US army secretary has been thrust into the spotlight of Moscow-Kyiv negotiations

previous day 2

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Person In The News

This Budget’s tax decisions will haunt the government

The buffer Reeves built into her plans is admirable, but no guarantee of avoiding the nasty dilemmas to come

previous day 2

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Ruth Curtice

Is China winning the innovation race?

Once the world’s factory, Beijing’s relentless focus on R&D means the country has become the world’s laboratory

friday 5

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The Big Read

Walmart reinvents itself as a growth stock

Nasdaq listing is testament to retailer’s transformation under Doug McMillon

friday 9

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The Editorial Board

Brazil offers lesson in winning the ‘Taco’ trade

Global politicians need to understand that White House policy is driven by melodrama and instinct

friday 2

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Gillian Tett

The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism

Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour

friday 4

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John Burn-Murdoch

Why China needs to let the renminbi rise

A steady appreciation would boost domestic consumption and improve trade relations

friday 8

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Weijian Shan

Thames Water’s lenders are not offering enough

The water industry regulator should not let the utility’s bondholders take control too easily

friday 2

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John Gapper

The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow?

New rules will boost lending and profits and entrench American dominance. But critics say they could lead to another crash

27.11.2025 50

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The Big Read

Taming the four horsemen of the infocalypse

Imposter accounts, lax moderation, extremism and synthetic content could destroy trust in everything we read online

27.11.2025 40

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John Thornhill

How GLP-1s changed Thanksgiving

Obesity medications are diminishing appetites for the foods that American holidays are known for 

27.11.2025 5

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Patti Waldmeir

Agentic AI is the hacker’s new accomplice

The automation of attacker-defender dynamics is a long-standing fear among cyber defence specialists

27.11.2025 30

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Mariarosaria Taddeo

The hot air of Trump’s tariffs is approaching a ceiling of cold reality

Even before their full effect has hit, the duties are doing real damage

27.11.2025 3

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Alan Beattie

The OBR’s carelessness has damaged us all

The fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process

27.11.2025 2

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Chris Giles

France isn’t ready to send its children into battle

A speech by a leading general hinting at the need for conscription has taken the French out of their comfort zone

27.11.2025 3

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Sylvie Kauffmann

Europe must be a rulemaker, not a rule-taker

Outsourcing EU environmental and economic strategy would be an act of self-harm

27.11.2025 1

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Teresa Ribera

Reeves leaves Britons poorer but no wiser about Labour’s strategy

She and Starmer remain torn between the convictions that got them into politics and economic principles

26.11.2025 7

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Robert Shrimsley

How Greece’s recovery can be an inspiration for Europe

The Eurozone’s former problem child is now borrowing more cheaply than much of the continent

26.11.2025 10

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Kyriakos Pierrakakis

A horrid Budget for the ‘Henrys’

Tax squeeze set to hit higher-earning young professionals at key point in their careers

26.11.2025 7

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Claer Barrett

China is making trade impossible

Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make

26.11.2025 100

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Robin Harding

The costs of India’s hunger for cheap steel

Booming production may buoy the domestic economy, but is causing environmental damage and trade tensions

26.11.2025 10

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The Big Read

A tax-raising British Budget with no long-term solutions

The chancellor’s failure to drive growth and cut spending leaves future levy rises on the cards

26.11.2025 10

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The Editorial Board

Nigeria’s problem is bigger than Trump thinks

Its government is failing to protect everyone, not only Christians

26.11.2025 6

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The Editorial Board

Can a drone wall really work?

International co-ordination, not technology, is the major barrier to Europe’s defence against unmanned aerial vehicles

26.11.2025 20

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Anjana Ahuja

Rachel Reeves’ case of risky risk aversion

It is depressing that a government with such a huge majority dares do so little to transform economic prospects

26.11.2025 8

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Martin Wolf

The new nuclear age needs to make the right business case

To turn investor interest into necessary flows of capital, projects must be demystified

26.11.2025 4

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Sama Bilbao Y León

How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences

With few ships and limited intelligence-sharing, some say the country cannot hope to protect itself or its infrastructure

25.11.2025 30

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The Big Read

Britain’s Budget woes illustrate the threat to Europe’s social contract

Many governments have not come clean with voters about the growing fiscal strains on the welfare state

25.11.2025 3

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The Big Read

The minimum wage is not a cure all — we’re asking too much of business

Politicians spend too much time uttering cheap rhetoric about cheap labour

25.11.2025 10

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Stephen Bush

A COP of clumsy compromises

It is left to a coalition of the willing to start the hard work of phasing out fossil fuels

25.11.2025 5

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The Editorial Board

The fracturing of the world economy

Will the US or China abandon their current follies sooner?

25.11.2025 20

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Martin Wolf

The UK must remove the pension triple lock

With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings

25.11.2025 6

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Heidi Karjalainen

Making IPOs great again has its pitfalls

The US needs more public listings but the regulatory pendulum may be swinging too far

25.11.2025 4

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Brooke Masters

A shrinking world will turn our problems upside down

The political and economic priorities of a depopulating society could be very different from today’s

25.11.2025 8

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Sarah Oconnor