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University-for-all is failing the students it claims to help
Literacy is falling, entry bars are lower and A grades have soared. Lowering standards hurts the weakest students most — restoring them would help.
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Latin America’s Orange Wave: Opportunity and Peril on the Right
Seven right-wing victories in about a year have tilted Latin America toward Donald Trump. The realignment offers trade and security advantages but risks trading democratic institutions for tough…
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Europe’s Industrial Decline Is Home-Grown, Not China’s Fault
European leaders blame China and global imbalances for deindustrialisation, but the EU itself ran a 1.9% current-account surplus in 2025. The manufacturing slide is largely home-grown — and…
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Andy Burnham promises hope. Britain needs more than that
Andy Burnham looks set to become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. His charm is real, but Britain needs an economic plan, not just hope.
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The AI Backlash Is Just Beginning — How Governments Should Respond
AI is unpopular in the West and the politics of artificial intelligence is only just starting. Managing the backlash will matter as much as improving the models.
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Don’t lock out Chinese biotech — patients lose when politics blocks cures
Restricting licensing deals and trial data from China would raise costs and delay new medicines for Americans. Fixing FDA, NIH and immigration policy would help patients more.
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Britain’s Lost Decade: Why Rejoining the EU Isn’t the Answer
Ten years after voting 52% to 48% to leave the EU, Britain is more divided and less influential. Rejoining would be another distraction from the hard work of…
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Jio’s record IPO exposes India’s governance problem
A possible record-breaking Jio listing highlights dismal governance at India's family-run conglomerates, just as retail investors surge from 40m to 130m.
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America the AI Gatekeeper: How the US Controls Frontier Models
On June 12 the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from its Fable and Mythos models, revealing Washington as gatekeeper to frontier AI and the compute behind…
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Trump’s Iran Deal: Cash for Nuclear Restraint Is a Risky Bet
After failing to bomb Iran into submission, Donald Trump has signed a short peace memo offering Tehran oil money and sanctions relief for nuclear restraint. The deal is…