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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Britain’s golden chance to attract top US talent

    The UK is slow to respond to the White House assault on science and universities

    Harvard University School of Government graduating students
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    America’s courts versus Donald Trump

    US judges are a vital restraint on the president’s attempts to rule by decree

    US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Crypto wins a champion in the White House

    Trump family’s enthusiasm for digital assets creates a glaring conflict of interest

    A cut-out of US President Donald Trump holding a bitcoin is displayed on a group of servers
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Britain needs to stop fiddling with fiscal policy

    Labour party’s approach to managing the public finances has been too haphazard

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Nigeria’s shock therapy

    Citizens have yet to feel the benefit of economic reform, but Bola Tinubu should press on

    Nigerian President Bola Tinubu
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    In cyber attacks, humans can be the weakest link

    Hacks of M&S and others have aimed to manipulate individuals not just systems

  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Europe’s far right is hammering at the door of power

    Moderate parties are running out of time to find ways to satisfy voters’ concerns

    People walk past electoral posters featuring presidential candidates Nicuşor Dan and George Simion
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    The great AI jobs disruption is under way

    Automation will reshape tech work, and spark new opportunities

    A woman using a laptop in a data centre
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    South Africa’s mugging at the White House

    Violence against Afrikaner farmers needs to stop, but it is not a genocide

    South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s bill is big, but not beautiful

    The president’s fiscal plans deepen concerns over America’s public finances

    President Donald Trump with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Lisa McClain
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of Donald Trump

    If the US president is walking away from Ukraine, other allies must step up

    President Donald Trump sitting at the Resolute desk
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    A first step towards rebuilding UK-EU ties

    Hard-fought reset lays bare the realities of the post-Brexit relationship

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    How to block the financial scammers on social media

    Big Tech should have a legal duty to check investment advertisers are authorised

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  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Jumbo diplomatic gifting

    An age-old instrument of statecraft is being updated for the billionaire era

  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Donald Trump’s world of uncertainty

    The president’s modus operandi makes long-term planning futile

    US President Donald Trump is seen on a television screen while a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Europe needs smart rearmament

    Nato must develop a nimbler technological edge than during the cold war

    Ukrainian Army carry a Vampire hexacopter drone
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Keir Starmer’s tough talk on immigration

    To reduce inflows of foreign workers, Labour must address the shortages that drove them

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks in Downing Street
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    An uneasy US-China détente on tariffs

    Uncertainty around Trump’s trade war has not gone away

    Boxes of goods in a loading area at an industrial park in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China
  • Sunday, 11 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Friedrich Merz’s stumbling start

    Germany and Europe need the chancellor to overcome his early political setback

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Tariffs won’t make Hollywood great again

    Duties on foreign film productions would weaken the US movie industry

    A still from the film Avatar, where the lead character rides a giant beast into battle
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Britain’s trade deals are a starting point

    Agreements with the US and India are imperfect, but better than nothing

    Keir Starmer and Donald Trump at the White House. The agreement with America is merely a less bad outcome for the UK, relative to the tariffs it faced before the president’s inauguration
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    Averting a spiral of escalation between India and Pakistan

    Crisis between nuclear-armed neighbours is a big test for global diplomacy

    A general view of a damaged structure in the Kotli district of Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    The west’s shameful silence on Gaza

    The US and European allies should do more to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu

    Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    A tentative reset between Britain and the EU

    Deals this month ought to become the basis for a more ambitious realignment

    Sir Keir Starmer with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    The pitfalls of overhasty business deregulation

    Republicans should think twice before rushing to scrap the US audit watchdog

    Erica Williams, chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
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