Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back
LOBITH, NEAR where the river Rhine enters the Netherlands, has been a border town ever since northern Europe has had borders....
Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit?
During Donald Trump’s first term as America’s president, Cambodia was a byword in Washington for a Chinese satrapy, or client...
Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield
IN THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly bi...
Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&E
A WISE DOCTOR once said that accident and emergency (A&E) departments were the “shop window” of the National Health Servi...
Is British justice too secretive?
On July 29th a 17-year-old boy, born in Cardiff, entered a dance studio where children were gathered for a Taylor Swift-theme...
Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists
Can a country still call itself an ally of America if America is threatening to annex part of its territory? Such a question ...
The Michelin Guide is no longer the only tastemaker in town
It began, implausibly, with a guide to French roads. In 1900 two brothers, André and Édouard Michelin, wanted to promote trav...
The allure of the company town
Billund is a small town in Denmark with a population that stands at a little over 7,000 people. It is also the birthplace and...
The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes
NOT SO LONG ago, the countries that restricted outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) were usually relatively poor ones, dr...
The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs
ANAESTHETICS THAT don’t put patients to sleep. Laxatives that fail to clear bowels. Blood-pressure medication with little eff...