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How to make football more exciting: readers’ best ideas
After our leader on making football more exciting, readers wrote in with their own rule changes — from bigger goals to pre-match shoot-outs. Here is a selection, edited…
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Claire Dubois
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A speechwriter’s defence of writing with AI help
Bots can help poor writers say what they want for a fraction of a ghostwriter’s cost, argues speechwriter Ryan Jacobs — if AI learns to interrogate ideas.
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World Bank defends its industrial policy rethink
Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, says the bank's March report is not a U-turn but an update: with all 183 strategies targeting industry, governments need guidance…
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Taiwan Central Bank Rejects Currency Manipulation Claim
Taiwan’s central bank, the CBC, rejects claims that it deliberately holds down the Taiwan dollar, arguing its interventions only maintain stability under its statutory mandate.
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Afghanistan Is the Extreme of a Global Assault on Women
The Taliban represent the farthest end of a global continuum of restrictions on women's lives. Afghanistan is the emergency — but hundreds of millions live in the accepted…
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Europe Cannot Protect Russia From Itself: Stand Up to Putin
Fear of Vladimir Putin going fully rogue has paralysed the West, writes Poland’s Radek Sikorski. Europe must stand firm on Ukraine and stop trying to protect Russia from…
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Assisted dying bill delay: readers back right to choose
After our Blighty newsletter reported a Lords delay to the assisted-dying bill, readers wrote in droves — overwhelmingly in favour of choice.
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Why fears of AI-driven cyber armageddon are overdone
Applying basic security principles would go a long way to fixing problems identified by Anthropic and OpenAI, writes former NCSC chief Ciaran Martin.
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Michael Selig: America Won’t Import Rules That Hold Markets Back
CFTC chair Michael Selig argues America’s $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market stays ahead through innovation — not imported regulatory consensus. From crypto perpetuals to prediction markets, he makes the…
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Would Europeans Be Willing to Fight for Their Countries?
Defence spending is rising, but polls show many Europeans would not fight if attacked. Nathalie Tocci argues that only physical and psychological preparation can make deterrence work.