Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
“THIS IS A big one,” Donald Trump said as he signed a clemency order for nearly 1,600 January 6th rioters just hours after be...
Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
In an era dominated by tech giants worth trillions of dollars, no European firm started from scratch in the past 50 years is ...
European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing
When a government falls apart, pay attention to the laws ministers still manage to pass. Germany’s collapsing “traffic-light”...
Germans are growing cold on the debt brake
WHAT DO Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz, the Bundesbank, the imf, the OECD, Germany’s biggest trade union, its state-appointed cou...
Government by social media in Somalia
Thirty years ago, making a phone call from Somalia meant crossing the border into better-connected Kenya or Ethiopia. Yet by ...
Britain’s brokers are diversifying and becoming less British
Corporate brokers are a peculiarly British phenomenon. Serving as a bridge between founders and investors, brokers have worke...
How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?
China’s announcement on January 17th that its economy had grown by an estimated 5% in 2024, right on target, was greeted with...
How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage
Wall Street was poorly represented in the expensive seats behind Donald Trump at his inauguration. That honour fell instead t...
How to end the nightmare of Asia’s choked roads
INCHING THROUGH Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s megalopolis, Banyan recently had a back-seat view of one of Asia’s monstrous traffic...
Indian politicians are becoming obsessed with doling out cash
WHEN THE Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which leads Delhi’s government, unveiled a new programme handing out 1,000 rupees ($11.50) a ...