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UK banks risk an outbreak of boardroom exuberance

Three cheers for a steady 2024 but this is no time for complacency

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Philip Augar

Why is America still building houses in climate danger zones?

Developers are constructing more in high-risk areas — illustrating the twin challenges of adapting to severe weather while addressing a housing...

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The Big Read

Finding a way to restore trust in Britain’s water industry

The system is a natural monopoly but has become a regulatory maze

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Jon Cunliffe

Steak mousse and a vibrating sofa: Japan shows the way for baby boomers

The practical impact of mass ageing has suddenly become more dramatic and potent

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Leo Lewis

Argentina’s chainsaw reformer is more orthodox than he looks

The risk is that President Javier Milei declares victory in his economic programme too early

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Alan Beattie

Help is coming in the AI copyright wars

Artificial intelligence companies must decide how to pay for the human-generated content they need

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John Thornhill

Women’s education is essential to defeating extremism in Africa

Victory against terrorist organisations demands collaboration between governments, faith leaders and civil society

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Abdoulie Ceesay

Can Starmer rise to meet his Bismarck moment?

Labour will use the geopolitical crisis to defy its own members about the new priorities for a rearming economy

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Robert Shrimsley

Tech regulation is a high-wire act for South Korea

Ensuring fair competition in the digital sphere risks antagonising the new US administration

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Haeyoon Kim

The political rise of the anti-vax movement

As traditional parties decline, vaccine scepticism has become one of the anti-establishment forces filling the vacuum

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The Big Read

Trump’s red carpet for wealthy foreigners

‘Gold card’ visa plan intensifies the global battle to attract the super-rich

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The Editorial Board

The Tories discover that Britain is located in Europe

The lesson of this world-changing month is that geography matters — despite what the Brexit campaign claimed

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Janan Ganesh

Action must replace anger as Germany grapples with lost US friendship

The defence of freedom at home and in Europe is the paramount task facing likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz

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Constanze Stelzenmüller

A US-Canadian border friendship feels the strain

Relations between Detroit and Windsor, joined by a cross-border tunnel, are being marred by Trump’s threats

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Patti Waldmeir

Captain America: not so brave new world

The latest film in the Marvel franchise is typical of Disney’s timidity in recent years

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Stephen Bush

Whatever happened to the great truck driver shortage?

The underlying problems behind the crisis have not yet been resolved

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Sarah Oconnor

The US is now the enemy of the west

Washington has decided to abandon both Ukraine and its postwar role in the world

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Martin Wolf

China’s superpower of scaling will spur DeepSeek’s competitive threat

The Chinese AI start-up should worry Silicon Valley and investors betting on US exceptionalism

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Yanmei Xie

The Trump 50 per cent doctrine

With ruthless purges of the US government, the president is tipping the scales towards autocracy

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Edward Luce

Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea

UK pressure on Apple for data access could leave the majority less safe

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The Editorial Board

Can Syria’s new rulers sustain its fragile peace?

Order is being maintained by a patchwork of factions. Combining them into a national security apparatus is a delicate process

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The Big Read

Doge versus business

Fair competition, regulatory certainty, industry subsidies and financial security are all under attack

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Rana Foroohar

Now is the time for Europe really to step up on Ukraine

The future of the post-1945 security order hangs in the balance

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen

Is China investable again?

It always was — at the right price and for those with eyes wide open to the economic downside

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Ruchir Sharma

Europe needs Friedrich Merz to succeed

The first moves by Germany’s chancellor-designate are bold and encouraging

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The Editorial Board

Trump wants a world safe for autocracy

Europe will have to defend liberal democracy without American support

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Gideon Rachman

Reject the quiet life — there is no growth without competition

The UK government should learn from the sorry history of cartels and monopolies

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Alexander Klein

At TEDxTehran, young Iranians reimagine their future

Progressive events relieve pressure but fail to loosen the grip of the country’s rigid political system

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Najmeh Bozorgmehr

Cometh the hour, cometh eventually Friedrich Merz

Expectations of Germany’s next chancellor are already sky-high but coalition talks will be tough

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Ben Hall

Graduates face an uphill battle to employment

University leavers should have benefited from a tighter labour market. Why are so many still searching for a job?

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Recruitment

When we politicise everything we make society stupider

By losing our ability to see things at face value we are losing our grip on reality

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Jemima Kelly

Who’s afraid of the big, bad sabbatical?

Not as many hard-charging banks as you might think

23.02.2025 9

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Pilita Clark

Economic partnership will protect the Ukrainian people and the US taxpayer

Trump’s bold international leadership aligns interests and benefits all

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Scott Bessent

Europeans will need to decide which Russian sanctions to keep

And they should identify those they are willing to lift in order to secure a just and durable peace in Ukraine

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Robin Niblett

China’s private sector needs more than warm words

Reviving the nation’s animal spirits will require consistent efforts to win investors’ trust

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The Editorial Board

Europe should be flattered by Maga’s attacks

A central goal of Trump’s henchmen is to defang the EU’s regulatory power for the benefit of American Big Tech

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Martin Sandbu