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John Burn-Murdoch

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Young adults are growing increasingly economically dislocated

A disconnected class is taking shape, but is absent from the headline statistics

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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

07.11.2025 20

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Are Britain and the US losing their allure for top talent?

Open hostility and high visa fees are a risky bet amid intensifying competition for the world’s brightest and best

01.11.2025 7

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Will AI lengthen lifespans or shorten them?

New science advances may offer longer life to some, but the socio-economic effects may push others to die sooner

25.10.2025 4

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What the graduate unemployment story gets wrong

People with a degree are faring better, not worse than their non-graduate counterparts

10.10.2025 10

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Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

04.10.2025 30

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Did the political establishment pave the way for Trump and Farage?

New research suggests mainstream politicians created an opening for the populist right

26.09.2025 10

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France and Britain are in thrall to pensioners

Mounting fiscal crises show how not to handle the demographic crunch

14.09.2025 20

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The end of the gatekeepers

In the age of social media, the establishment no longer controls the narrative

06.09.2025 10

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Why progressives should care about falling birth rates

Falling fertility levels are making the world more conservative, and may harm rather than help the planet

30.08.2025 20

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Britain’s statistics scandal means it cannot answer its most pressing questions

More and more of the numbers needed to guide policy are going dark

22.08.2025 5

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The troubling decline in conscientiousness

A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults

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The great crime paradox

Disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality?

01.08.2025 10

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Why are young adults in the English-speaking world so unhappy?

Society sold the dream of home ownership — then cruelly snatched it away

25.07.2025 20

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Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men. Will that last?

Unpicking the puzzle of increasing junior white-collar unemployment

18.07.2025 10

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Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning

In a rapidly warming world, a former extravagance is becoming a necessity

11.07.2025 10

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Trump chaos is alienating Republicans

Outside of the Maga ecosystem, bad economic news is starting to cut through

04.04.2025 20

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Why hasn’t AI taken your job yet?

New research shows ChatGPT’s inability to cope with ‘messy’ multitasking is still protecting some human workers

28.03.2025 10

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The misinformation discourse is a distraction

Media fragmentation and the erosion of shared sources of truth are bigger threats

22.03.2025 8

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Have humans passed peak brain power?

Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

14.03.2025 40

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Why the Maga mindset is different

US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west

07.03.2025 30

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Manchester United is tackling the wrong problem

A decade of accumulated sporting failure is now hitting the club’s bottom line

01.03.2025 20

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How undercounting immigration skews narratives

The US and UK have been underestimating population growth but with diverging implications

31.01.2025 40

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Gen Z Americans are leaving their European cousins in the dust

Millennials across the west were united in their economic malaise. Their successors not so much

24.01.2025 40

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Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health

Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?

18.01.2025 20

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The relationship recession is going global

A rise in the number of single people is becoming a key driver of falling birth rates

11.01.2025 50

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Inequality hasn’t risen. Here’s why it feels like it has

What appears on the surface to be a flat trend masks churn beneath

03.01.2025 30

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Year in a word: Incumbent

Being elected to government used to help you stay there. Now it may help push you out

22.12.2024 7

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Why the TikTok era spells trouble for the establishment

Populism is the winner in the shift from traditional to social media and from text to video and audio

20.12.2024 10

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The London problem is holding young Brits back

Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper

14.12.2024 10

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What if the UK isn’t actually the sick man of Europe?

Britain’s illness-related inactivity crisis looks increasingly like a mirage

06.12.2024 5

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Fentanyl deaths are falling. What’s behind the decline?

The evidence points to changes in the drug supply

29.11.2024 8

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Trump broke the Democrats’ thermostat

The American left was sent spinning in 2016 and is yet to recalibrate

15.11.2024 20

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What is the point of polling?

Voters want precision — unfortunately, political surveys can’t deliver it

08.11.2024 3

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Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents

Governments across the world are struggling in this period of economic and geopolitical turmoil

07.11.2024 10

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Will Trumpism outlast Trump?

The changed political and cultural landscape makes a reset unlikely

01.11.2024 6

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Is peak population coming sooner than we think?

Birth rates keep coming in below the forecasts — the models may need an overhaul

25.10.2024 6

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Yes, CEOs are moving left, but ‘woke capitalism’ is not the whole story

The corporate world has taken a progressive turn, while polarisation is also on the rise

18.10.2024 20

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The left is losing its grip on ethnic minority voters

British and American politics are undergoing surprising shifts as research — and elections — explode assumptions

11.10.2024 5

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We may have passed peak obesity

Weight loss drugs appear to be having an effect at the population level

04.10.2024 8

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Out of work and unwell: the worrying rise of young people on benefits

Data shows increasing numbers in rich countries turning to welfare

27.09.2024 4

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Young women are starting to leave men behind

Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions

20.09.2024 40

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Time for a grown-up conversation about immigration

Failing to acknowledge imperfect outcomes and trade-offs is impoverishing the debate

16.08.2024 2

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Green parties need to decide who and what they are for

Electoral success across Europe is exposing contradictions and hypocrisy

09.08.2024 6

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Are the super shoes used in Olympic races distorting results?

New technology is creating an uneven playing field in athletics

02.08.2024 3

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