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Trump's nightmare is a US recession – this is what will cause it

This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...

yesterday 9

Hamish Mcrae

Teens are more unmotivated at school than ever before - here's how to help them

What motivated you to learn when you were at school? Perhaps it was the hope of a high exam mark so you could bask in the adulation of your...

yesterday 8

Will Gore

From Nigel Farage to Zack Polanski – anyone could be our next Prime Minister

There was a time when more than nine in 10 people would vote for one of the two main parties at a general election. As recently as 2017, the...

yesterday 2

Hugo Gye

I'm sick of parent smugness towards people who don't have kids

If there is one phrase that anyone without kids cannot stand, it is “as a parent…” It is like nails down a blackboard to me. I actually think it’s...

previous day 10

Kate Lister

Putin's empty war threats expose his growing desperation

Vladimir Putin only has one song and he sings it over and over again. There are no verses, only a badly constructed chorus. It is a song of...

previous day 2

Ian Dunt

The cruel pension divide that is more unfair than the triple lock

The stereotype used to be that the public sector pays less than the private sector, but they get better pensions in return. I often hear this...

tuesday 1

Mark Wallace

Putin's purpose has already been defeated by Ukraine

Russia claims to have captured the key Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, as US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law,...

tuesday 1

Patrick Cockburn

At 67, a 10-minute surgery transformed my life - I'm never looking back

“I can see clearly now the rain has gone / I can see all obstacles in my way / Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.” Never have the words of...

tuesday 2

Simon Kelner

Millennials will regret not having kids - they are worth every penny

By the time the youngest of my four children turns 18 in 2029, it seems my husband and I will have spent around £1m of our taxed income raising our...

tuesday 10

Lorraine Candy

Not enough people want to die for Britain – and who can blame them?

The Government’s strategic defence review, released earlier this year, made one thing clear: the world has become less stable, more hostile and far...

tuesday 6