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Keep the COP process alive

Negotiators in Belém need to resist US pressure to derail climate efforts

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Climate Change

Voice phishing is AI fraud in real time

Just as we learnt to treat emails with caution, we must now learn to doubt a human-sounding voice

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Nell Norman

Here’s what a new US-Mexico-Canada trade deal should look like

The old WTO model is dead — sovereign control and national security matter

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Oren Cass

What Mamdani and Martha Stewart tell us about the vibe shift

An election win and a politically incorrect cookbook show that Americans are embracing candour over caution

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Jemima Kelly

The politics of breaking manifesto promises

The history of politicians who go back on their words has lessons for Rachel Reeves as she mulls raising taxes

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The Big Read

How to curb China’s grip on rare earths

The world will need to band together and innovate to lessen Beijing’s leverage

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The Editorial Board

Fathers and sons — a two-minute television fable

The tear-jerking John Lewis Christmas ad reveals a new seriousness about the fraying bond at the heart of the family

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Ed Davies

Xu Yangtian, Shein’s mysterious founder under fire

China’s fast fashion giant, dealing with outrage in France, was created by a man who is unrecognisable even to his own employees

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Person In The News

Has Trump passed his peak?

One thing is for sure: the opening act of the US president’s second term is over

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Edward Luce

Diane Ladd, actress, 1935-2025

Mississippi-born star brought warmth to characters over 70 years and collaborated with her daughter

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Diane Ladd

Is Bangladesh’s Gen Z revolution falling apart?

Over a year after the ousting of Sheikh Hasina, the student movement is losing faith in the possibility of real change

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The Big Read

It’s time to stop passing the parcel on welfare

A lack of political will has turned the problem of too many out of work into a system that fails everyone

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Camilla Cavendish

Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west

New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity

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John Burn-Murdoch

Beware the three Ls: leverage, liquidity and lunacy

In the long run bubbles always deflate, often when least expected

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Gillian Tett

Time to give children the financial education they need

The numerate and money-confident students of today will bring benefits to the UK economy tomorrow

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Claer Barrett

Why Latin America can’t quit oil

As COP30 approaches, Brazil and Colombia offer competing visions of a ‘just energy transition’ for developing countries

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The Big Read

Who’s right about AI: economists or technologists?

Forecasting the impact of artificial intelligence has become fraught, with evangelists pitched against sceptics

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John Thornhill

It’s no surprise mistakes were made — prisons are in chaos

Erroneous releases are bound to occur with sentencing guidelines in flux and guards overworked and undertrained

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Alex South

War is pushing us to a drug resistance tipping point

Failure to prevent the rise and spread of infections in conflict zones imperils health security everywhere

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Manica Balasegaram

The inescapable logic of Labour’s choices

Starmer and Reeves should lean in to what the Budget reveals about this tax-and-spend government

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Robert Shrimsley

Japan’s adventures in Trump’s irrational-rational land

A shiny Ford pick-up truck has become the symbol of Sanae Takaichi’s diplomatic dance with the US

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Leo Lewis

In defence of COP

Multilateral efforts to tackle climate change can still deliver for the UK and for the world

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Ed Miliband

Trump cannot manifest Middle East peace

The US president thinks his ceasefire has brought calm but the reality is an ongoing war on multiple fronts

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Kim Ghattas

The US can’t force Asian countries into its trade camp

Trump’s deals with Malaysia and Cambodia will not turn them into economic satellites in a cold war of commerce

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Alan Beattie

A horrific massacre in Sudan

The US and UK should put pressure on the UAE over its alleged role in enabling the conflict

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The Editorial Board

Will higher defence spending boost the European economy?

Deindustrialising regions hope for investment and jobs, but much will depend on how the extra money is spent

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The Big Read

Bond markets are winning the Budget stand-off

Gilts investors have long suspected that Labour would abandon its manifesto promises

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Katie Martin

The Democrats find reasons for cheer

Tuesday’s electoral sweep was a rebuke to Donald Trump, but now the governing begins

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The Editorial Board

Tips for resisting the anti-science lurch

The loss of robust evidence in the public realm harms us all

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Anjana Ahuja

Mamdani and the new challenge for nation states

The metropolis and the heartland provoke each other into extremes, as the New York mayoral race shows

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Janan Ganesh

Thomas Piketty: ‘The left has been a victim of its own success’

The economist on populism, fiscal debt and the long-term trend of economic equality

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Joel Suss

Chatbots pose a risk to democracy

AI companies vowed not to support their use for voting choice so why are they recommending parties?

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Marietje Schaake

Gerhard Schröder refuses to be Germany’s scapegoat

The former chancellor turned Moscow lobbyist shows no sign of remorse for his role in Nord Stream 2

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Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

The UK tax system is a mess — these are priorities for Reeves to reform

The list of inconsistencies goes on and on. Nobody should have designed such an absurdity

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Martin Wolf

The meaning of Zohran Mamdani

Will the New York mayoral favourite be a boon to the Democratic party, or a millstone around its neck?

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The Big Read

The new nuclear arms race

Amid loose talk of resuming weapons tests, cold war-era controls are unravelling

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The Editorial Board

Why the job ladder matters for migrants

Obstacles in progressing are important both for people and for the economy

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Sarah Oconnor

Don’t blame the left for US antisemitism

The anti-Jewish threat in America today comes largely from the right

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Edward Luce