How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region
THE IDEA that Oxford and Cambridge are bastions of elite privilege runs deep. The two universities were among the first to be...
How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, beamed as she announced on February 3rd that Donald Trump had agreed to delay imposing...
How TikTok became a religious pulpit
THEY SAID it was divine intervention. TikTok was resurrected on January 19th, just hours after the short-video app shut down ...
India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success
In India images of tigers are everywhere. The apex predator is seen accompanying Hindu gods and its face adorns political ban...
British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
The decision came, as awkward news tends to, late on a Friday. The employment court had been asked to rule not so much on mat...
Japan could finally face its own
Unlike its neighbour South Korea, Japan has not had a vociferous #MeToo movement. Is that now changing? Last year a newspaper...
Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
A school that has never seen children is a strange place. The carpets and walls are unnaturally clean; the building is eerily...
Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life
Free love. Psychedelic drugs. Embroidered Moroccan cushions. Nietzsche. Zen. Tribal trinkets. Customised existentialism. Ossi...
Oxford and Cambridge are too small
Two weeks ago few people had heard of Tempsford, a sleepy village of 600 people in rural Bedfordshire. But it is located hand...
Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban
It is a humbling admission for an old ally. “They don’t listen to us,” General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief, complained ...