Abodes well? The housing crash that wasn’t
Much to the chagrin of hopeful first-time buyers, property prices remain stubbornly high across the West. Our correspondent explains why housing is defying the laws of financial gravity. A new diamond...
20 Jun 202324min
More Blinken meetings: a diplomatic visit to China
In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions between both countries. Can diplomats successfully stabilise the strained relationship? Latin American co...
19 Jun 202325min
I, of the tiger: India’s influential diaspora
They lead startups, giant corporations, even countries: people of Indian origin are finding great success outside their home country—and wielding much influence inside it. On its 30th anniversary we r...
16 Jun 202325min
Guilty party: Boris Johnson’s lies catch up with him
The investigation into covid-lockdown-era parties during Boris Johnson’s premiership—and his denials of their impropriety—comes to damning conclusions. Is it the end for the former prime minister? Jap...
15 Jun 202324min
Call of duties: the global costs of war
Conflict in Ukraine has cut short the “peace dividend” the world was reaping. We count the economic costs of a widespread return to a war footing. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of two e...
14 Jun 202325min
Death of a salesman: Silvio Berlusconi
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. ...
13 Jun 202324min
Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push
Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical ca...
12 Jun 202325min
Charged up: Trump’s latest indictment
He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The former president denies wrongdoing, and any possible convictions are still a long way away, but how...
9 Jun 202326min
