The political podcast with an innuendo name is actually a vital part of our unwritten constitution.

How seriously should we take India's efforts at trade liberalisation? A new working paper shows how India historically undermined lower tariffs through domestic measures such as anti-dumping duties, QCOs and so on. pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/10...

The Chinese environment ministry has asked petrochemicals plants, copper smelters, airlines and other heavy polluters to report their emissions, a key step to expanding the nation’s carbon market. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He’s just like me fr fr

Is this a GDPR violation

Britain gradually transitioning from cautionary tale to unfavourable comparison for American progressives.

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed" - GK Chesterton

Super Bowl halftime show and Grammies seem like good evidence for woke being thermostatic with who is in the whitehouse

Really interesting thread on French nuclear power.

only i solider on

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

The FT’s evisceration of Mandelson is an entirely reasonable and proportionate response to someone raising their voice in the quiet carriage.

This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Common across Europe too.

India may be about to become one of the world's most open economies www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Put parliament in the bat tunnel

Breaking: EU Commission finds TikTok in breach of the digital services act over its "addictive design" Bytedance-owned app could face fine of up to 6% of global revenue if it doesn't fix addicitive properties like infinite scroll, autoplay, recommender systems

*taps the sign again*

"Main finding is the impact of low fertility is likely to be negative but small. This negative impact arrives only after a long adjustment period. An increase in fertility back to the replacement rate would lower the standard of living for several decades." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

There’s a Schumpeter quote that’s something like “the achievement of capitalism is not the manufacture of silk stockings; queen Elizabeth had silk stockings. The achievement of capitalism is to put them in reach of factory girls.”

Pretty much the entire history of technological innovation is a new product that’s worse but cheaper. Your electric razor is not as good as a barber with a knife, your AI is not as good as an executive assistant, even your mass produced wine is not as good as 500 year old vine grown French wines.

India's priority is to ensure energy security for its people, says trade minister reut.rs/3NTBD8V

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

Epstein's male friends: You have the courage of a lion. You are the truest friend. Our lives are as one. Stand firm Jeffrey. Give them hell. my male friends: Hey man. How's it going?

Waiting to see if Modi agrees…

US President Trump: Agreed to a Trade Deal between the US and India, whereby the US will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25% to 18% - They will likewise move forward to reduce their Tariffs and Non Tariff Barriers against the US, to ZERO. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Norway’s elite engulfed by Epstein scandal www.ft.com/content/deb9...

this is still one of my favorite Chotiner bits tbh

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

wonderful piece on the life of a smoker — and the process of quitting — by @johnphipps.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

India gives 20-year tax holiday to foreign firms using local data centres reut.rs/46s6YWv

In this down-at-heel diner in Labour's traditional Levenshulme heartland, the party's erstwhile base is asking questions with no easy answers for the Prime Minister. Questions like; Is the male mullet passé? Is Feeld the new Hinge? How much can a glass of natural orange wine really cost, anyway?

Damn.

Chinese People: in my posts I invented the 9-9-6 as a cautionary tale American Tech Bros: At long last, we have created the 9-9-6 from the classic tiktok video Don't Create the 9-9-6

“Rupee hits record low” increasingly feels like “day ends in y” as headlines go

On London’s surprisingly poor economic performance www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Mark Tully spoke to Indians as one of them economist.com/obituary/202...

World leaders are attacking Europe. Trump, Xi, Putin and Zelensky think Europeans weak and annoying. True, Europe (I include the UK) can be smug and slow. But the derision is overdone, and leaders are often blaming Europe for choices they made. My column, The Telegram economist.com/internationa...

India’s coal revival looks impossible to achieve www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In her Trudeau era

Even the rupee is up against the dollar today www.reuters.com/world/india/...

The public have spoken, Starmer must bully Andy Burnham more.

[whispering to Miller] He'll throw you to the wolves. You'll never get a pardon. It's now or never! [slithering over to Trump] He plots against you sire! Throwing him in the dungeon will send a message to the others!

Trade deal covering a quarter of humanity.

High hurdles—but perhaps not insurmountable www.economist.com/united-state...

Some tentative signs of productivity growth in Britain. The Resolution Foundation reckons that when using Real Time Indicators of working hours, instead of the flawed Labour Force Survey, output per hour has grown 3.4% over the past 18 month. www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/...