Watts the problem: Texas’s energy failings
Crippling blackouts can be explained in part by the state’s unique energy market, but the disaster exposes wider failures that must be confronted amid a changing climate. Today’s landing of another Ma...
18 Feb 202123min
The next of 1,000 cuts: Hong Kong activists on trial
It is not violent young protesters in the dock: the accused are the architects of the territory’s democracy. Our correspondent examines the city’s descent into authoritarian rule. In Colombia, activis...
17 Feb 202120min
Desert stands: France in the Sahel
Terror groups and separatists run riot in the sprawling region, and France has had some success in keeping the peace. But how, and when, to draw down its troops? Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade O...
16 Feb 202122min
No Capitol punishment: Trump’s acquittal
Donald Trump was all but certain to be cleared in his Senate trial, and so it went. But the few Republican votes to convict are telling. What next for the former president? A look into Swiss efforts t...
15 Feb 202124min
Exit-stage plight: Brexit’s costs come due
Stock-trading is shifting to the continent; businesses are bound up in red tape; border issues are still simmering. There is far more than mere “teething problems” as Britain and Europe adjust to thei...
12 Feb 202122min
The coup is on the other foot: Myanmar
A power-grab by the army’s commander, Min Aung Hlaing, is not turning out to be easy: the greatest protest movement in a generation is gathering steam. Debates over trans rights are particularly fraug...
11 Feb 202122min
Like hell out of a bat: SARS-CoV-2’s origin
The World Health Organisation unveiled preliminary findings, suggesting the coronavirus probably jumped to humans via an intermediary animal and all but ruling out a laboratory leak. We examine the ma...
10 Feb 202120min
Very long covid: the lasting risks to Africa
So far it seems the continent has weathered the pandemic well. But current numbers mask a future reckoning that is likely to have dire human and economic costs. We look into the “predatory trading” th...
9 Feb 202121min
