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The Gen Z revolution spreading in Asia

Nepal is just the most recent country to have seen the ruling elite toppled by frustrated young people

yesterday 10

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The Big Read

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

yesterday 30

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Stephen Bush

The Fed is stuck between its dual mandate

A cautious rate cut this week would maintain the US central bank’s flexibility

yesterday 20

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The Editorial Board

How Ukraine and Gaza scrambled the ideological map

The two wars have divided the west — and not along the old left-right lines

yesterday 20

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Gideon Rachman

How to build the next internet economy

The algorithm that generative AI systems are built on could be used to create a subscription funding model

yesterday 10

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Pedro Domingos

There’s only one winner if Democrats shut down the government

The party should be concentrating on developing a new agenda not theatrics

yesterday 3

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Oren Cass

America risks making frenemies of old allies

Neither re-industrialisation nor US security can be achieved with the current White House approach

yesterday 3

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Rana Foroohar

The left’s radical plan to fix housing in Paris

Authorities are using an arsenal of interventionist tools to make city homes affordable. Critics call it an attack on property rights

yesterday 2

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The Big Read

Replacing Starmer is not in Labour’s interest

Britain does not need a rerun of the carousel of prime ministers of the Tory years

yesterday 30

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The Editorial Board

Trump and the limits to British flattery

Keir Starmer might be tempted to hymn ‘shared values’ but such talk rings increasingly hollow

yesterday 20

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Edward Luce

What’s in a popular first name? Let this Sarah tell you . . . 

Data suggests the drive towards individualism has increased the selection of monikers in recent decades

yesterday 5

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Sarah Oconnor

Industrial strategy needs more than ‘superstars’

The bulk of UK jobs are in the everyday economy, not internationally competitive clusters

yesterday 1

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Andy Haldane

Chicago and the fight over the National Guard

Residents debate whether Trump’s threatened deployment would really help bring down violence

yesterday 2

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Patti Waldmeir

The UK is squandering its AI talent

We risk building the foundations for other countries’ successful technologies 

yesterday 0

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Mike Bracken

Pret and peers serve up a cold platter of UK high-street gloom

Retailers still planning around yesterday’s customer habits will find even greater challenges in store

sunday 8

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Uk Retail Industry

America can still stop the cycle of political violence

Politicians of all stripes must recognise that no one is safe from this scourge

sunday 20

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Rachel Kleinfeld

Israel is alienating its most important Arab partner

By holding up a gas deal and accusing Egypt of violations in Sinai, Netanyahu is endangering a vital peace treaty

sunday 20

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Ksenia Svetlova

Abandoning the arts in schools is a national scandal

A narrow, exclusively exam-focused education in the UK damages young minds

sunday 30

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Anthony Seldon

How India can trump US tariffs

It should unleash the potential of its vast internal market with reform and investment

sunday 2

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The Editorial Board

Memo to women: get ready to work for free again

The gender pay gap is tediously persistent and worse than we thought

sunday 5

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Pilita Clark

Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead

Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism

13.09.2025 10

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Dan Neidle

France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners

Mounting fiscal crises show how not to handle the demographic crunch

13.09.2025 20

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John Burn-Murdoch

Rick Davies, musician, 1944-2025

Supertramp’s co-founder was a guarded, sardonic realist in an age of grandiloquent gestures

13.09.2025 40

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Rick Davies

The battle for the Fed is about much more than interest rates

Trump and his economic advisers want to narrow the central bank’s mission dramatically

12.09.2025 10

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Gillian Tett

America’s dangerous descent into mutual loathing

The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a new cycle of political violence with echoes of the 1960s. But this time, leading figures on the right are...

12.09.2025 50

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The Big Read

A world without rules

America’s Trump-led retreat from global leadership is tempting others to push their luck

12.09.2025 50

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Us Foreign Policy

Labour’s trade union backers are out of control

Demands for money and perks have grown along with payouts even as ministers boost their power

12.09.2025 30

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Camilla Cavendish

How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America

Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump’s circle

12.09.2025 3

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The Big Read

Israel’s attack on Qatar has shaken the Gulf

Netanyahu’s preference for endless war over diplomacy is making Saudis and Emiratis reconsider their alliances

12.09.2025 10

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Emile Hokayem

The Mandelson appointment shows Starmer’s weakness

A colourful ambassador may have been a good fit for Trump but it was a tactical mis-step

12.09.2025 3

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John Mcternan