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  • Wednesday, 4 February, 2026
    The editorial board
    Britain’s inequitable student loan system

    Graduate discontent is growing over their repayment terms

    1 hour ago
    Three graduates in caps and gowns stand arm in arm outdoors, seen from behind, celebrating after their ceremony.
  • Tuesday, 3 February, 2026
    The editorial board
    Under Prabowo, Indonesia is veering off course

    Investors are jittery about the government’s fiscal and political record

    Prabowo Subianto speaks at a podium with arms raised during an economic event, with Indonesian flags in the background.
  • Monday, 2 February, 2026
    The editorial board
    Xi’s ominous purge of his top general

    President’s power play bodes badly whether it is a sign of strength or weakness

    Zhang Youxia, He Weidong, and Li Shangfu, in military uniforms, raise their right fists while taking an oath at a formal assembly.
  • Sunday, 1 February, 2026
    The editorial board
    Americans have drawn a red line in Minnesota

    The Trump administration’s partial retreat will not mend the damage to trust and lives

    A banner reading ‘Neighbors Say ICE Out!’ hangs at a snowy neighbourhood entrance in Minneapolis
  • Friday, 30 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    The next Fed chair still has a lot to prove

    Kevin Warsh brings experience but must demonstrate his credibility to markets

    Kevin Warsh speaks at a podium with a microphone during the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings.
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    A rescue mission for the rules-based order

    Europe needs to play a lead role in efforts to de-risk from Trump’s America

    Narendra Modi, Ursula von der Leyen, and Antonio Costa stand together smiling and clasping hands before their meeting.
  • Wednesday, 28 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    America’s shift to an insider economy

    Access to presidential favour has become a key to business success

    Larry Ellison speaks at a podium with the presidential seal while Donald Trump stands nearby with arms crossed.
  • Tuesday, 27 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Intervention will not reverse yen weakness

    Loose fiscal policy no longer makes sense now that Japan has escaped deflation

    Japanese 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen banknotes displayed upright with their reflections visible below.
  • Monday, 26 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Labour’s destructive infighting

    Starmer’s move to block a rival will not avoid months of internal plotting

    Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham walk side by side outside, both wearing dark suits and somber expressions.
  • Sunday, 25 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    The uses and abuses of prediction markets

    Insider bets, low liquidity and regulatory gaps complicate efforts to turn wagers into financial tools

    A person observes multiple monitors displaying natural gas futures charts with line graphs and candlestick patterns.
  • Friday, 23 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    The dystopian world of Donald Trump

    He pulled back on Greenland, but a rupture of the old order is under way

    Donald Trump raises his fist while wearing a suit and tie at the World Economic Forum in Davos
  • Thursday, 22 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Trump’s alarming threat to invoke the Insurrection Act

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle should oppose deploying the US military to Minneapolis

    Two federal agents in tactical gear and gas masks move through heavy tear gas during a protest in Minneapolis.
  • Wednesday, 21 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    A better way to address China’s population decline

    Boosting economic confidence will do more to lift the birth rate than a pronatalist push

    A man carries a child wearing a purple coat above a dense crowd at a temple fair decorated with red lanterns.
  • Tuesday, 20 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Takaichi’s electoral roll of the dice

    Japan’s PM is betting her popularity will translate into votes for a diminished LDP

    Sanae Takaichi stands at a podium, reacting during a press conference, with a Japanese flag in the background.
  • Monday, 19 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    How to talk Trump down from his Greenland blackmail

    The president’s threats are an existential moment for the transatlantic alliance

    Danish soldiers in camouflage uniforms and winter gear walk through a snowy port area in Nuuk, Greenland, carrying equipment
  • Sunday, 18 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Why the UK needs a credible Conservative Party

    Kemi Badenoch’s Tories have to learn to like Britain again

    Hugh Beattie stands at his stall between colorful geometric paintings of Kemi Badenoch and Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party conference.
  • Friday, 16 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    The ‘big man’ era of football managers is past

    As clubs have grown, the gaffer’s power has been diluted by multiple executives

    Arsène Wenger and Alex Ferguson walk side by side in suits before the 1998 FA Charity Shield at Wembley Stadium
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Britain’s business rates system is not fit for purpose

    Temporary reliefs are a sticking plaster for a tax that needs reform

    The boarded up Crayford Arms pub in south-east London
  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    The dangers of a trigger-happy US president

    American intervention in Iran carries far greater risks than in Venezuela

    Donald J. Trump salutes a uniformed Marine as he steps off Marine One on the White House South Lawn.
  • Tuesday, 13 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Curbing sexual deepfakes is a moral imperative

    Musk has mischaracterised the dispute with the UK and others over indecent AI images as censorship

    The Grok app is open on an iPhone in front of a laptop displaying X (formerly Twitter) search results.
  • Monday, 12 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Donald Trump’s foolhardy assault on the Federal Reserve

    Independence of US central bank is a vital anchor for the global financial system

    Jerome Powell speaks in a video message, wearing a suit and tie, with a U.S. flag and blue curtain behind him.
  • Sunday, 11 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Beware of overconfidence

    There are limits to extrapolating from last year’s economic resilience

    A trader monitors multiple computer screens with financial data on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
  • Friday, 9 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    Trump unbound: unconstrained at home, adventurist abroad

    America is accelerating the shift towards a Hobbesian order

    Donald Trump speaks at a podium with a U.S. flag behind him as someone in the audience records on a smartphone.
  • Thursday, 8 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    South-east Asia’s surprising resilience to the tariff war

    Asean countries should build on their durability with domestic and trade reforms

    A worker operates a screw manufacturing machine surrounded by industrial equipment at a factory in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam.
  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    The editorial board
    How Europe should respond to Trump’s Greenland threats

    US move on the island would be a breach of the transatlantic alliance

    Emmanuel Macron, Mette Frederiksen, Friedrich Merz, and Donald Tusk stand together in discussion at the EPC Summit.
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