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With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton The consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, a city in Uttar Pradesh, in January was a matter of supreme importance to...

America, China and the battle for supremacy Flows of information and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started during Donald Trump’s first term in...

But it is all the more powerful as a result Reform uk may have an address at 83 Victoria Street in London. The right-wing challenger party may be registered with the Electoral Commission, a bit below Putting Crewe First and...

The excitement over metro mayors cannot disguise the rot One leaflet being stuffed into letterboxes by Liberal Democrats in Hull, a city of almost 270,000 people in East Yorkshire, argues that Labour politicians spent too much money on some car-park...

An annual conference offers Foucauldian analyses of the BBC radio drama. And cakes It feels less like a fact than a philosophy problem. “The Archers”, a bbc radio drama centred on the fictional rural village of Ambridge, contains numerous silent...

Britain’s second-most-important tax is riddled with holes Biscuits are tricky tax terrain. One way they can fall foul of Britain’s value-added tax (vat), a consumption levy, is to have an overindulgent chocolate coating. But how much is too much? A...

To understand Britons’ social isolation, consider their corpses Grahame giddings was born on Valentine’s Day in 1952. Nobody knows when he died. He had not been seen in weeks when police forced their way into his north London home on...

A ruling on behalf of pensioners does not mean the court has gone rogue It could be the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international court over greenhouse-gas emissions, and...

And why leaving would be a mistake “Beware! i am going to speak in French!” So said Winston Churchill as he stood in Place Kléber, a square in central Strasbourg, on August 12th 1949. In the speech that followed, Britain’s...

Potholes lie in the road to a second term If a politician gives a speech but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission since 2019, might...

The elderly, the displaced and the disabled are the worst affected As soon as the volunteers appear, those that have been waiting for them on Kyiv’s central Independence Square (known as Maidan) form a queue, shuffle forward and take a...

Good news comes from the success of a terrorist-linked political party Sometimes good things come in strange packages. On April 21st Spain’s Basque Country voted in regional elections. The Basque Nationalist Party (pnv), the conservative separatist movement that has led...