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Reversal of fortunes: Europe’s thriving south and stagnant north

With Germany’s economy stalling, tentative growth in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain is some good news for the Eurozone. Will it last?

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The Big Read

Age is more than a number when it comes to policy

Why how long people have been alive is not a good yardstick for judging who is ‘old’

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Sarah Oconnor

Badenoch should learn from the failures of DeSantis and Pécresse

The Tory leader is the latest conservative to try to emulate a challenger from her right, but it won’t work

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Stephen Bush

The Syria I grew up in was a factory of fear — no longer

All over the country, Syrians are saying words they have not dared to speak in years

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Sarah Dadouch

Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call

Hubris kept him too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Trump’s return

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Edward Luce

It takes imagination to regenerate a historic city  

The 20-year transformation of a former Regency naval yard is changing Plymouth

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John Gapper

Where voters don’t want to throw the incumbents out — and why

The global rebellion against those in power does not extend to the developing world

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Ruchir Sharma

Britain doesn’t need to walk a US or EU path on AI

Going our own way will unleash national renewal

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Keir Starmer

Bond vigilantes have the UK in their sights

The Labour government needs a detailed plan to boost growth and cut spending

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The Editorial Board

Russia’s war economy is a house of cards

The financial underpinnings look increasingly fragile

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Martin Sandbu

Think twice before committing to European boots on the ground in Ukraine

Negotiations between the warring parties are likely to set the parameters of any post-conflict deployment

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Samuel Charap

Cutting aeroplane contrails is an easy climate win

Tackling these emissions should be simple, fast and cost-effective

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Mike Berners-Lee

Trump risks turning the US into a rogue state

Territorial expansionism and threats to neighbours and allies should set off alarm bells across the world

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Gideon Rachman

How El Salvador became a model for the global far right

President Nayib Bukele has brought stability and safety, but imprisoned tens of thousands. Governments face dilemmas about how to engage

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The Big Read

The cravenness of Mark Zuckerberg

Changes to the fact-checking regime at Meta make it look like he’s caving in to Trump

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Jemima Kelly

What US workers can expect from Trump’s second term

New administration expected to largely favour employers over the rank and file on issues such as remote work

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Employment

AI is taking the US in a strange new direction

It will drive the market to new heights and boost growth, but bring with it more political and social disruption

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Rana Foroohar

China is winning the race for green supremacy

The west needs to co-operate, cautiously, with Beijing in the renewable energy trade

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The Editorial Board

Sudan’s last hope lies in external actors ending the war

Middle Eastern states and their allies must not continue to exploit the country as a battleground for their rivalries

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Payton Knopf

Starmer’s attempt to ‘do a Blair’ on the NHS

Lack of funds will hamper Labour’s second push at improving healthcare through competition and patient choice

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Camilla Cavendish

Herbert Kickl, Austria’s far-right leader eyeing the chancellorship

Once dismissed as having modest political prospects, he now is on the verge of the nation’s top job

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Person In The News

The relationship recession is going global

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

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John Burn-Murdoch

David Lodge, novelist and academic, 1935-2025

One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes

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David Lodge

The rising threat of deadly diseases jumping from animals to humans

Zoonotic pathogens very likely caused the last pandemic. Can we get better at halting them before the next one?

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The Big Read

Dollar dominance means tariffs are not the only game in town

America’s grip on global financial services could provide Trump with another source of leverage

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Gillian Tett

A time for truth and reconciliation

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

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Peter Thiel

The art of dealing with Donald Trump

The president-elect’s aggressive claims about potential territorial expansion are a crash course for allies in his negotiating tactics

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The Big Read

The rising cost of a caffeine fix

Climate, disease and flawed regulation are squeezing coffee and chocolate lovers

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The Editorial Board

TGL is golf — but not as we know it

The sport’s latest bid to win the future offers players and fans an indoor, faster and more frantic form of entertainment

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Andrew Hill

For richer, for poorer: the changing finances of divorce

Budget changes make navigating the economic dynamics of relationships more taxing

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Claer Barrett