www.economist.com/britain/2026... Great column by @matthewholehouse.bsky.social on Reform's weird coalition

Spot on from the Economist. What a second week of war will bring economist.com/middle-east-...

Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out

This is so beautifully put. I'd recommend reading the whole thing. (I'm assuming this is @bryce.lol's prose in the latest Alphaville Substack post.)

Great Janan www.ft.com/content/9247...

The Hillsborough law is a noble, popular and bold idea: to make it a crime for the state to lie. The problem is it may make for a less honest and open state. My note this week on good intentions and unintended consequences www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist. Please help spread the word. www.economist.com/science-and-...

Ready, steady, unionise! Trade unions have high hopes for the new Employment Rights Act. The most overlooked provisions - on union recruitment, recognition and industrial action - are probably the most important. But where they lead, no one knows economist.com/britain/2026...

When Narendra Modi became Indian prime minister, Obama was president, Cameron was PM and Merkel was chancellor. Twelve years later, Modi enjoys a 70% approval rating is eyeing taking the title of India's longest-serving PM from Nehru. @tomsasse.bsky.social on why Modi is as dominant as ever

Starmer, Farage, Badenoch et al share a strange consensus: that state capacity is broken, and the answer is a stronger prime minister in a faster, more centralised system - pulling levers like the Fat Controller and grabbing power back from agencies. Is it smart? www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist

Martin Parr transformed photojournalism economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist

Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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... From The Economist

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

British voters would like politics to go away

Canada and France both have similarities with Britain. But the place that comes closest according to our measures may seem a surprising one

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-...

Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India economist.com/finance-and-...

Do read this on the budget, by our economics editor, Henry Curr. (Much better than the Kemi version): www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

This really is v good. on.ft.com/47YTi6P How to get the UK out of its economic hole

Most of the criticisms of Britain's Online Safety Act seem to have been wrong: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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...

This is good, on the bus fare cap and Labour's half-hearted devolution www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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 www.economist.com/internationa...

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-...

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?

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 economist.com/internationa...

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. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...

"the stronger the vision of Palestinian statehood grows on the outside, the more it fades within" - www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Non-zero chance that Your Party never polls above Change UK

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...

"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" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

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My column in tomorrow's paper:

Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps

www.economist.com/science-and-... come work with me

Impressive enlargement of his vote.

keyless ignition is one of the all time worst technological trade-offs ever

Superb piece on the rapidly changing British countryside. economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist

"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-... From The Economist

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-...

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/...