Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?
The market moves were bigger than expected. On March 5th German long-term yields jumped by 0.3 percentage points, the largest...
Canada’s security complex has woken up to Trump’s menace
“These are dark days,” Canada’s prime minister-designate, Mark Carney, told a hushed gathering of party faithful on March 9th...
China’s super-smart Tesla-killers
Sitting in his spacious office in the southern city of Guangzhou, He Xiaopeng is in an expansive mood. The boss of Xpeng, a C...
Dessert cafés are a symbol of modern Britain
Creams cafE in Slough, west of London, was quiet at eight o’clock on a recent Friday evening. An hour and a half later it was...
DOGE comes to England’s health service
IT WAS NOT only a decapitation but also a disembowelment. Fittingly for British public servants, the death of the arm’s-lengt...
Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?
IN HIS FIRST few months, President Donald Trump has shredded the transatlantic alliance and damaged the trust of America’s al...
Europe’s other front:peaceniks vs hawks
“TRUMP SAYS defence spending has to go up, and the European Union jumps through the hoop. €800bn ($871bn), whoopee!” Wendela ...
Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla
Friends help each other out. Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, may well have been grateful when Donald Trump said he would buy one of ...
America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall
AS DONALD TRUMP raises tariffs, he is causing turmoil in financial markets. But for a motley group of American manufacturers,...
Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb
“WE WOULD BE safer if we had our own nuclear arsenal,” Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, told his country’s parliament on...