Tom Sasse
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Public policy editor at The Economist
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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.
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office
Aside from some eye-catching gestures, Reform councils have focused on potholes and budget holes
https://economist.com/britain/2025/12/10/nigel-farages-reform-uk-has-moderated-in-office
14 days ago
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Martin Parr transformed photojournalism
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Martin Parr transformed photojournalism
Six images captured by one of Britain’s best photographers
https://economist.com/culture/2025/12/09/martin-parr-transformed-photojournalism
15 days ago
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Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI:
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Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI
There are big benefits if they can overcome the obstacles
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/12/06/why-britains-police-forces-are-taking-to-ai
17 days ago
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Giles Wilkes
19 days ago
Brace yourself, but it appears that when it comes to emigration, the Mail and the Telegraph may be full of ***t
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Giles Wilkes
20 days ago
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Really thoughtful, evenhanded analysis from The Economist, that suggests to me the transition will be more jagged than optimists expect
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Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/27/self-driving-cars-will-transform-urban-economies
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British voters would like politics to go away
21 days ago
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The Economist
27 days ago
Canada and France both have similarities with Britain. But the place that comes closest according to our measures may seem a surprising one
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Which country is most similar to Britain?
Clue: none of the ones its politicians obsess over
https://econ.st/3XlJWMg
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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.
27 days ago
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Gavin Jackson
28 days ago
Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force by
@tomsasse.bsky.social
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Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/27/narendra-modi-plans-to-free-up-indias-giant-labour-force?giftId=ZmQyZmZkMDgtMGExOC00NTAzLTgwMWYtNTExYzFiMzc0ZmEzdGVnX3VzZXI%3D&utm_campaign=gifted_article
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Gavin Jackson
about 1 month ago
Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India
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Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India
Remittances may fall, but opportunities are opening up
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/20/visa-restrictions-are-bad-for-indians-but-maybe-not-for-india?giftId=MjNkYWIzZjMtZDMxOC00M2RlLWFjODAtOTlhN2ZkMjkwMDQxdGVnX3VzZXI%3D
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Do read this on the budget, by our economics editor, Henry Curr. (Much better than the Kemi version):
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs
Without ambitious reform, the country will not thrive
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/11/26/this-bodge-it-budget-does-not-give-britain-what-it-needs
28 days ago
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Duncan Weldon
about 1 month ago
This really is v good.
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How to get the UK out of its economic hole
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How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
https://on.ft.com/47YTi6P
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Most of the criticisms of Britain's Online Safety Act seem to have been wrong:
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet
The effects of a new law have been less dramatic than critics warned
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/11/18/britains-controversial-experiment-in-regulating-the-internet
about 1 month ago
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Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington are conspiring in one of American capitalism’s great money-making eras. CEOs are embracing risky financial strategies that involve jaw-dropping feats of paper engineering—and offer clues as to the nature of the coming crash
www.economist.com/business/202...
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The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance
A frenzy of financial innovation has ensnared America Inc. What could go wrong?
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/12/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-corporate-exuberance
about 1 month ago
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This is good, on the bus fare cap and Labour's half-hearted devolution
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Labour is reluctant to get off the bus
A national bus-fare cap exposes the government’s fondness of central control
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/10/10/labour-is-reluctant-to-get-off-the-bus
2 months ago
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A new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is not the self-driving electric car, but the humble bicycle, writes
@dlknowles.bsky.social
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/09/forget-evs-cycling-is-revolutionising-transport
2 months ago
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Gavin Jackson
3 months ago
India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/09/narendra-modis-paltry-target-for-indias-growth?giftId=7c5fbb71-ba7e-40e1-8905-b95cbb64490f&utm_campaign=gifted_article
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?
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Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
https://www.ft.com/content/f58858fe-22fe-4e86-a820-eebaffac342e?sharetype=blocked
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Matthew Holehouse
3 months ago
There are good reasons to think the number of small boat crossings may fall in the next couple of years - and it will have little to do with whatever has been announced at party conferences Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration
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Jim Waterson
3 months ago
London exclusive: Competition between big money e-bike operators has hit the point where Hackney residents will now get flat fare £1.75 journeys within the borough, with Lime and Voi winning a contract that predicts *up to £93m* in revenue from one borough.
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E-bike fares capped at £1.75 in Hackney — could the rest of London be next?
Exclusive: Lime and Voi win the battle for control of the £93m Hackney rental e-bike market, amid a fierce London-wide battle between deep-pocketed companies vying for control of a booming industry
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-ebike-fares-london-hackney-capped
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The perverse consequence of America’s $100,000 visa fees
Offshoring to India and other countries could accelerate
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/09/22/the-perverse-consequence-of-americas-100000-visa-fees
3 months ago
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"the stronger the vision of Palestinian statehood grows on the outside, the more it fades within" -
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Palestine is unrecognisable on the ground
The UN stands up a state that is disappearing from view
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/09/18/palestine-is-unrecognisable-on-the-ground
3 months ago
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Owen Winter
3 months ago
Non-zero chance that Your Party never polls above Change UK
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Britain’s attempts to stop asylum-seekers have failed so far
A new scheme might change that
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/09/18/britains-attempts-to-stop-asylum-seekers-have-failed-so-far
3 months ago
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What Elon Musk gets wrong about Europe’s hard right
He imagines a continental revolt against Islam and elites
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/17/what-elon-musk-gets-wrong-about-europes-hard-right
3 months ago
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Wrote about why it will be hard for the government to turn things around when food prices keep going up:
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s rising food prices are a political headache
Voters hate inflation. They notice it most at the supermarket
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/09/17/britains-rising-food-prices-are-a-political-headache
3 months ago
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"The insinuation of those who see population decline as a disaster is that human societies cannot flourish without expanding. The evidence for that is flimsy"
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A contracting population need not be a catastrophe
The economics of a shrinking world
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/09/11/a-contracting-population-need-not-be-a-catastrophe
3 months ago
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The Economist
3 months ago
Join The Economist’s Foreign Department
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The Economist is hiring an Asia correspondent
Join The Economist’s Foreign Department
https://econ.st/4nj5Hr6
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
My column in tomorrow's paper:
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Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
https://www.ft.com/content/fbbde39a-9eeb-4329-a97c-3bd1a44cb5df
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America’s choice after the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence could become routine. But it doesn’t have to
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/09/12/americas-choice-after-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk
3 months ago
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The Economist
3 months ago
Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps
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The new battle for Britain
Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps
https://econ.st/4njNaL8
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Alex Hern
4 months ago
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent
We’re looking for a writer to join us in London for 12 months
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/02/the-economist-is-hiring-a-science-and-technology-correspondent
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Robert Hutton
4 months ago
Impressive enlargement of his vote.
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Alex Hern
4 months ago
keyless ignition is one of the all time worst technological trade-offs ever
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Duncan Weldon
4 months ago
Superb piece on the rapidly changing British countryside.
economist.com/britain/2025...
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Humiliation, vindication—and a giant test for India
Trump has triggered a trade and defence crisis: how should Modi respond?
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/27/humiliation-vindication-and-a-giant-test-for-india
4 months ago
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Giles Wilkes
4 months ago
"look beyond AI and much of the economy appears sluggish. Real consumption has flatlined since December. Jobs growth is weak. Housebuilding has slumped, as has business investment in non-ai parts of the economy"
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Beware the data-centre takeover
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/18/how-americas-ai-boom-is-squeezing-the-rest-of-the-economy
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Gavin Jackson
4 months ago
Wrote about the deficit-populism doom loop. Imagine you are the finance minister of a European country. You lie awake at night worrying about bondholders. Your colleagues fret about the electoral success of the hard right. What are your options?
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/08/24/fear-the-deficit-populism-doom-loop
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I have 3 pieces in this week's magazine looking at the global criminal business behind the rise in car and phone theft 1. On the new geography of stolen goods -- why Britain has become world leader & why the model is likely to spread
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The new geography of stolen goods
Cars, phones, tractors: how high-end products are increasingly stolen to serve distant markets
https://www.economist.com/interactive/britain/2025/08/17/the-new-geography-of-stolen-goods
4 months ago
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Sunder is right - the way this story is being reported is bizarre. See also "PM returns from holiday to a country at breaking point", per Times news-wrap today.
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4 months ago
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Giles Wilkes
4 months ago
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...
Encouraging signs. Looking at a
@timleunig.bsky.social
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Reeves considers replacing stamp duty with new property tax
Exclusive: Treasury examines options including tax on homes sold for more than £500,000 as well as overhaul of council tax
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/18/rachel-reeves-stamp-duty-property-tax-council-tax
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Hetan Shah
4 months ago
Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer
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This was a great excuse to do a lovely section of the coast path. I was less keen on the book… The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller
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The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller
The truth will catch up with you, but will readers want to hear it?
https://economist.com/britain/2025/08/16/the-moral-of-the-salt-path-an-embellished-bestseller
4 months ago
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One of the most obvious things the police could do about phone theft is apply the law on e-bikes. If you allow loads of unrestricted ones on the street, you just end up with cities in which any 18 y/o can easily evade the police.
5 months ago
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Matthew Holehouse
5 months ago
Follow the prime minister’s rhetoric about building a high-wage, high-security, low migration labour market to its logical conclusion, and Deliveroo as we know it would surely die. It probably won’t. Starmer versus the burrito taxi
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Starmer versus the burrito taxi
If Sir Keir Starmer means what he says about labour rules, Deliveroo is in trouble. Does he?
https://economist.com/britain/2025/08/06/starmer-versus-the-burrito-taxi
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Pakistan’s army chief is cosying up to Donald Trump
The field marshal is also tightening his grip on power at home
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/08/03/pakistans-army-chief-is-cosying-up-to-donald-trump
5 months ago
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If you're wondering who Reform's latest defector is, this 2011 profile by
@chriscook.news
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www.ft.com/content/34bf...
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Great piece
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5 months ago
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One megawatt-hour of offshore wind from the last round costs a few percent more than one from Britain’s existing gas fleet, even at today’s still-high gas prices. August’s round will fix prices into the late-2040s.
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Is Britain’s net-zero push to blame for its high energy prices?
A mighty rise in electricity costs has complicated the drive for clean power
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/31/is-britains-net-zero-push-to-blame-for-its-high-energy-prices
5 months ago
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Wrote about Nigel Farage's Bukelian turn:
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Does Nigel Farage’s plan for halving crime in Britain add up?
No. But that might not be the point
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/31/does-nigel-farages-plan-for-halving-crime-in-britain-add-up
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