Beautifully written piece from my colleague Leo Mirani who visited the world's second greatest movie-making seaside city (LA) to write about how a Jain temple ended up in tinseltown and its journey from profane to sacred. www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking economist.com/christmas-sp...

Watch who you’re calling childless economist.com/finance-and-...

Does this to adults too

Apple in talks with Indian chipmakers to assemble, package iPhone components, ET reports reut.rs/4qdW4v9

RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra tells the @financialtimes.com that he expects India's interest rates to remain low for a “long period”. He also admitted that the blistering 8.2% GDP figure “was surprising” and the central bank had to “improve” its forecasting ft.com/content/55cd...

Indian rupee's relentless slide fuels talk of RBI pushback, bankers say reut.rs/48QBw4M

A great case study in how hard it is to mitigate your way to consent. People who have decided to "hate" a project and all those who work on it will find a reason to hate the mitigations too.

Spotted in a Mumbai restaurant: “London corner shop style samosas” and “Birmingham Balti”.

The point on decumulating property is particularly important imo

Microsoft to invest $17.5 billion in India, CEO Nadella says reut.rs/48DYSKH

Dance like nobody is watching; love like you’ve never been hurt; sing like no one is listening, and praise your country like an American has just criticised it.

Dazzle Ships in Drydock, Liverpool, 1919, painting by Edward Wadsworth. Dazzle camouflage was created in WW1 to protect British ships from German artillery, making it difficult to estimate speed and direction. Wadsworth supervised design of camouflage patterns. #NorthernArt

Europe... stands on the brink of civilisational erasure bsky.app/profile/henr...

American hydration obsession

Have to adjust this for the default negative bias of British people.

if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected" harpers.org/archive/2025...

Nothing Starmer does in government will be as consequential - for Labour and the country - as voting against a high alignment + customs union agreement three times after a long campaign to sabotage it. For reasons that were pretty incoherent.

On the feasibility of the customs union, isn't it just "if the UK and EU are both committed to making this happen then a way can be found to make it happen; if they are not then then it won't happen".

"Indian firms look better than peers partly because the cost of pollution is not reckoned correctly [..] This outperformance is a trap. When selling into CBAM countries, this pollution arbitrage vanishes. Failures of electricity policy now harm exporters." www.business-standard.com/opinion/colu...

India has no immediate plans to add coal power capacity beyond 2035, official says reut.rs/4rJj2vI

Maga’s strange rage against Europe giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If only there had been some sort of backstop to keep Britain in the EU customs union that Labour could have supported. ig.ft.com/brexit-exit-...

Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive - Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

India's RBI to deliver up to $16 billion liquidity boost for bond markets - www.reuters.com/world/india/...

This week's column about AI, information economics and sneaky fuckers www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” A right-wing populist Reform UK government, however, “is a different proposition”. Starmer speaks to @zannymb.economist.com; note by @duncanrobinson.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...

This is outrageous. Good thing it has been abolished. www.ft.com/content/3695...

After a visit to Bangalore, I wrote this week on the optimistic mood in India's defence-tech scene—boosted by the government's drive for more home-grown arms, more interaction between start-ups & armed forces, and lessons from the India-Pakistan war in May www.economist.com/asia/2025/12...

AIs could turn opinion polls into (even worse) gibberish www.economist.com/united-state...

Imagining a student formulating a decades-long plot to get someone to actually read their thesis.

Recommend a Reuters subscription. It is an absolute steal at £40 a year and it is just great straightforward reporting.

New capital rules from Bank of England will support growth giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Indian rupee has fallen below 90 per dollar for the first time.

One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis www.economist.com/finance-and-...

BoE lowers capital requirements for UK banks as they pass stress tests on.ft.com/4isGBVa

we could have good things, too, you know

India's quiet deregulation is a relief to its friends www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I think another thing I am curious about UK fiscal problem discussions is... does average UK people really read that many newspapers? I mean I tried to follow the whole discourse but I really can't? I have to know FT said this on that day, Telegraph that on another, then The Times said another...

VIEW India's economy grows 8.2% y/y in July-September reut.rs/4okfsFa

40% of net migration being asylum seekers is a very weird stat because you could also say that 140% was study-related. Better to do it as a % of migration flows where asylum is 14%.

Here I attempt to answer a simple question: which country is most like Britain? www.economist.com/britain/2025...

In the meantime I have a couple of pieces in this week's magazine: 1) an interview with Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (with @robertguest.bsky.social): www.economist.com/asia/2025/11...

Some personal news: I will be moving to Delhi in January to be the Economist's South Asia bureau chief. I am obviously hugely excited about this. Welcome all recommendations and tips.

Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force by @tomsasse.bsky.social www.economist.com/finance-and-...

One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Indians were the most common nationality of non-EU citizens emigrating from Britain, according to the latest migration figures.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening. www.economist.com/finance-and-...