Politics & Economics

Driving from Kenosha to Racine to Janesville to Milwaukee, I’m conscious that the rules for early voting, absentee ballots, drop boxes (where you put your completed postal vote) and election timetables...

British politics has long been complacent about the power of big money. The relatively low price of access to politicians here – admission to the Leader’s Group of top Tory donors costs just...

Unregistered and undetectable fleets cut into the profits of the big tanker companies. After the first Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan oil, the number of ghost ships carrying...

War-fi accounts accurately depict the frontier between Europe and Russia as being in an unstable equilibrium. But they all conveniently ascribe this to dynamics endogenous to Russia, which figures as...

Alsayed Al-Maghrabi, a Labour councillor of Palestinian ancestry, quit Labour for the Greens. He told me he had joined Labour only because of Jeremy Corbyn and began to doubt whether he was in the right...

The most obvious question is not whether J.D. Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, he acts as he does. Halfway through Communion he quotes, without irony, a recovering...

Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to explain why British youth seem to be suffering a worse pandemic hangover than...

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds in everything from financial regulation to local government. Yet behind the company’s...

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers are housed together, six or eight to a claustrophobic cabin, yet they are chronically...

We don’t have a politics of what works so much as a politics of what older citizens won’t notice. All human beings are risk-averse but we get more risk-averse as we get older. Now that older...

I wanted to visit La Guajira to learn about the US airstrike on Venezuela but also to see genuine resistance. Under attack from the US, who better to turn to than a people who have preserved their languages...

Peter Murrell squandered the SNP’s reputation on £42,660 worth of Amazon packages and a necklace from a Shetland jeweller that Nicola Sturgeon thought was a sweet gift. Outside the court,...

For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy’s mistake was to take it too far. He was unable to spot the difference between...

Marwan Barghouti enjoys unparallelled popularity and is often described as Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. Like Mandela, he’s far from perfect, but his activism, his writings and his long imprisonment...

What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved in such different ways? What are the political, economic and social advantages and...

Here is an antidote to current traps and poisons. People who rescue rather than attack, who move in a physical, not a virtual, world, who don’t morally triage others. Who put themselves in danger...

Whatever rash remarks he may have made about the bond markets or spending commitments, Andy Burnham understands something that Keir Starmer grasped too late: the unaffordability of everyday life has become...

In​ 2018, the German company Bayer bought the US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not just its vast portfolio of seeds and pesticides, but also thousands of lawsuits alleging that glyphosate,...