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France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners

Mounting fiscal crises show how not to handle the demographic crunch

yesterday 20

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John Burn-Murdoch

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

yesterday 20

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Dan Neidle

Rick Davies, musician, 1944-2025

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

yesterday 10

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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

previous day 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...

previous day 60

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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

previous day 60

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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

previous day 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

previous day 6

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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

previous day 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

previous day 4

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John Mcternan

Japan confronts the increased price of US friendship

The Japanese government cannot spin its one-sided $550bn investment commitment to Trump’s America as a win

thursday 20

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Leo Lewis

The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state

Sheriff dominates the economy of Transnistria and its pro-Russian government, but the war in Ukraine has thrown its future into doubt

thursday 40

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The Big Read

Exit Mandelson — but not Number 10’s problems

Starmer’s backing of his ambassador was ill-advised but his speedy reversal was equally misjudged

thursday 10

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Stephen Bush

The alarming rise of American political violence

Charlie Kirk’s murder is a moment for all sides to seek to lower the temperature

thursday 10

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The Editorial Board

Charlie Kirk and America’s inability to escape political violence

The killings of an activist, politician and CEO in the past year show the resurgence of violent means across the spectrum

thursday 20

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Desmond King

Starmer is still captive to Labour’s contradictions

His challenges spring from unresolved tensions within his party and leadership

thursday 10

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Robert Shrimsley

The blurred line between free speech and medical misinformation

Transparency is key if public fears about vaccines are to be allayed

thursday 2

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Anjana Ahuja

Weight loss jabs won’t make Britain healthy again

The UK government should bet on the dietary tortoise as well as the hare in the race against obesity

thursday 4

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Ravi Gurumurthy

Should AI receive a writer’s credit?

LLMs continue the tradition of art’s preoccupation with authorship and authenticity

thursday 4

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Isobel Mccrum

Farage’s self-defeating embrace of Trump

There is nothing to gain for the Reform UK leader, so why does he do it?

10.09.2025 5

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Janan Ganesh

Indonesia counts the cost of idiosyncratic leadership

Prabowo Subianto’s response to national unrest will be to ditch the austerity and keep the populism

10.09.2025 10

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Robin Harding

Our answers to climate change are damaging nature

As the extinction of plants and animals accelerates, our dependence on the natural world is deepening

10.09.2025 10

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Hank Paulson

Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs?

A generation of start-ups have failed to live up to the hype. Executives are now betting that more powerful tools will crack the complexities of...

10.09.2025 30

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The Big Read

Mistral is stirring up a storm in European tech

ASML deal connects two impressive tech companies but the capital available is a fraction of that in the US

10.09.2025 9

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John Thornhill

How worried should we be about the crypto crush?

The line between market resilience and irrational exuberance is frustratingly hard to discern

10.09.2025 4

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Katie Martin

The crystallographer who solved a molecular mystery

A lecture by the pioneering scientist Kathleen Lonsdale has been chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution’s discourses

10.09.2025 4

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Michael Peel

Trump’s Department of War rebrand won’t make America stronger

The bellicose name change is alienating the highly skilled strategists and scientists the Pentagon needs

10.09.2025 1

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Carrie Lee

How Labour can rebuild trust with business

Reining back the burdensome employment rights bill would be a good start

10.09.2025 3

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Labour Party Uk

Hong Kong: a comeback with Chinese characteristics

After a stagnant few years, the territory’s financial sector is regaining its global standing with a push from Beijing

09.09.2025 9

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The Big Read

America’s left cannot exploit Trump’s failures

The president’s genius is to keep pushing the Democrats into a reactive defence of the status quo

09.09.2025 30

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Edward Luce

Starmer must not let his standards push be derailed

The strength of any government ethics system depends less on rules than their implementation

09.09.2025 5

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Hannah White

Can Starmer dig his way out of yet another hole?

This reshuffle can be read in various ways — not all of them positive

09.09.2025 5

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Stephen Bush

America’s draconian immigration raids

Hyundai case will make foreign workers and companies increasingly wary of setting up in the US

09.09.2025 2

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The Editorial Board

To prevent war, Britain must prepare for it

Private sector leaders need to work with the MoD to make our nation less vulnerable

09.09.2025 10

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Richard Barrons

Should the public sector build its own AI?

With a few powerful companies now controlling the tech, some countries are trying to take back control

09.09.2025 2

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Gideon Lichfield