Britain now averages three times as many days breaching 30°C than it did 60 years ago. This summer is likely to be the warmest since records began in 1884. The country is on a sweltering trajectory.
Specifically, an organiser says, they came because of Zack Polanski, whose election as the Greens’ leader last year ignited an “explosion of enthusiasm”. Polanski has put the party into British ...
Yet surely European integration is about more than summits and regulation (right?). Those who make Europe feel like a single ...
The study, published in the Lancet, a British medical journal, offers the most comprehensive estimate to date of mental disorders’ prevalence in China, with 191m cases in 2023 (equivalent to about one ...
V ladimir Putin will not end his war on Ukraine until he believes the costs of fighting on exceed the costs of stopping. The ...
O NE boasts NATO’s second-largest army and a booming defence sector. Another is the Muslim world’s only nuclear power. And the third is the world’s eighth-biggest arms spend ...
Last year it overtook McDonald’s, the American burger giant, to become the world’s largest fast-food operator by number of locations. Mixue bought a controlling stake in Fulujia in October. Both are ...
Critics are dismayed. Some worry firms are pushing immature technology onto vulnerable couples. Others say that even if the tech works, its use is immoral. Both arguments contain kernels of truth; ...
Business leaders can be naive when it comes to politics. It was a mistake for them to cheerlead for Labour before the most ...
I t’s summer, in the northern hemisphere at least, which means emptier offices and fuller airports. In theory, a holiday is a time to properly relax. In practice, there are several stages to pass ...
The first is Japan’s shortage of risk-taking venture capital. A decade ago traditional vc funds were rare. In 2015 only $1bn ...
Focusing on Russia, the legislation involves both a sanctions scalpel and a tariff sledgehammer. It imposes sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, banks, the defence industry and energy ...