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  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    The editorial board
    Britain’s opportunity

    Keir Starmer’s victory brings a heavy responsibility to restore trust in UK politics

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers his first speech outside 10 Downing Street after his election victory
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    The editorial board
    Shein, Temu and the parcel wars

    Restricting trade is not the best way to make Chinese retailers meet product standards

    Workers at rows of tables using sewing machines
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    The editorial board
    Kenya’s fraught choices

    Protests in Nairobi last week show the limited options for countries avoiding default

    A wounded man is led away by police after he was detained on suspicion of being a looter during an anti-government demonstration in Nairobi
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    The editorial board
    The Supreme Court has undermined US democracy

    Expanding presidential immunity increases the risks from a second Trump term

    People hold anti Trump signs in front of the US Supreme Court
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    The editorial board
    The far-right surge in France

    Opponents must mobilise to prevent Marine Le Pen’s party from taking power

    Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader and far-right Rassemblement National party candidate
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Britain needs a fresh start

    The Conservatives have run out of road. Labour must be given a chance to govern

    A composite image of the Houses of Parliament and a general election logo
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    An alarming moment for US democracy

    Joe Biden looks too frail to fulfil his mission of defeating Donald Trump

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    African politics
    The rough road ahead for coalition politics in South Africa

    Power-sharing agreement is a minor miracle, but divisions are deep

    Cyril Ramaphosa and John Steenhuisen
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    A hotter world is a negative-sum game

    New opportunities are dwarfed by the enormous cost of rising temperatures

    Pickers harvest Chardonnay grapes at one of English wine producers, Chapel Down’s vineyards, near Maidstone in southern Britain
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    A deepening stand-off in the South China Sea

    The US is correct to support the Philippines in countering Chinese encroachment

    Members of a military detachment move around aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, run aground on the disputed Second Thomas Shoal
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    The trust deficit in Britain’s damaged politics

    A scandal over election betting has raised new questions over ethics

    The Houses of Parliament viewed from across the Thames, with members of the public in the foreground
  • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Ukraine needs sizeable private debt forgiveness

    If it is to keep standing up to Putin, Kyiv has to be firm with bondholders

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    The limits of divestment activism

    Today’s fund management industry is less pliable than protesters think it is

    A sign held by a student marching around the Columbia university encampment reads Disclose Divest We will not stop! We will not rest!
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Israel and Hizbollah’s dangerous slide towards all-out war

    A week of belligerent rhetoric underscores the threat of escalation

    An Israeli soldier at the site of an Hizbollah anti-tank missile direct hit on a house near the Lebanon border
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Business leaders’ myopic reversal on Donald Trump

    The hunt for lower taxes and less regulation ignores major economic risks

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Britain’s broken public services

    Neither Tories nor Labour are being upfront about what is needed to fix them

    Building works at a London hospital last year
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    The fantasy economics of France’s far right and left

    Both the far right and leftwing are touting populist and uncosted policies

    Two men paste French political posters on buildings
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Elon Musk defies gravity

    Tesla shareholders back his pay deal, but he should not overplay his hand

    Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    The scarcity value of top-class football

    Players are complaining about the number of fixtures. They have a point

    Hong Kong fans were left disappointed after Lionel Messi sat out a friendly in February
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Party manifestos and the British economic reality

    Fixing Britain’s problems will require bold and ambitious leadership

    Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Apple’s belated AI gambit

    The iPhone maker’s promise of a personal assistant could be a turning point for the technology

    Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers remarks at the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Europe’s green backlash

    Rightwing advances in EU parliament elections will lessen climate ambitions

    French Ecologist party members at a campaign meeting
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    Emmanuel Macron’s high-stakes gamble

    Trying to contain the far right through early elections could badly backfire

    Emmanuel Macron speaks in a televised address to the nation during which he called new general elections on June 30
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    The unsustainable hype around ESG

    Several months of fund outflows mark the decline of ESG as a marketing tool

    A windfarm
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    The editorial board
    A new era of personalised cancer treatments

    As incidence rises, breakthroughs in oncology show the value of research funding

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