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Muddled laws give them wide discretion | Britain (2025)
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)
Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)
The decision barring the takeover of a big video game publisher is a major victory for proponents of regulating tech giants, which have faced obsta... (2023)
How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)
In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)
The damage will be noticeable but not disastrous (2020)
Sure, you know Germany has pretzels and France has baguettes; but do you know how these carby delights came to be? Learn the history of bread from ... (2020)
The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)
IN ANY GIVEN year one person in six is afflicted by a mental illness. Most cases involve mild-to-moderate depression or anxiety. Some sufferers rec... (2019)
Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse. (2018)
Learning about life. (2018)
The big classroom experiment:ASH GROVE ACADEMY, a state primary which sits in Moss Roe, a poor suburb on the outskirts of Macclesfield, is an excel... (2018)
Social disconnection is a serious matter. But let’s not whip up a panic. “Last month, Britain appointed its first “minister for loneliness,” who... (2018)
FOR several years the British government has drummed its fingers waiting for EDF, a French state-run utility, to give the all-clear for an £18 bill... (2018)
Benoit Wirz, investment partner at Brighteye Ventures, highlights why the UK can lead the way in EdTech. (2018)
Medium, 2014: "Thousands of cameras, millions of photographs, terabytes of data. You’re tracked, wherever you go... BRITAIN IS ONE OF THE MOST surv... (2013)
The UK has created a new visa for High Potential Individuals. Under the HPI visa any graduate from a top university as defined by “in the top 50 of... (2022)
The UK is proposing a move to regulate social media platforms, and hold them accountable for the spread of like misinformation, and terrorist propa... (2019)
The controversial face recognition company was just fined $10m for scraping UK faces from the web. That might not be the end of it. (2022)
For much of human history, our ancestors were trapped in an economy in which incomes were determined by the size of the population. The Industrial ... (2022)
International students in the UK contribute £28.8 billion to the country’s coffers annually – an equivalent of every citizen being on average of £3... (2021)
Universities are urged to block a science research website, which police say could put data at risk. The City of London police's Intellectual Pr... (2021)
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly tr... (2021)
Uber has lost a long-running employment tribunal challenge in the U.K.’s Supreme Court — with the court dismissing the ride-hailing giant’s appeal ... (2021)
Conservationists are taking the first step towards a potential reintroduction of the Eurasian lynx to Scotland, with the launch of a year-long stud... (2021)
After a troubled year that saw broadband satellite operator OneWeb file for bankruptcy, get rescue finance from the UK government and Bharti, and t... (2021)
Wealthy nations have ordered millions of doses of unproven candidates, but equal access is the key to beating virus (2020)
In both New York and London, core office districts have been empty for half a year. Both cities face a long, hard slog of recovery. But London has ... (2020)
Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say th... (2024)
Britain is one of the best places in the world to launder dirty money. Our new film tells you why—and asks whether that's likely to change.00:00 - ... (2023)
That was one of the more extraordinary interviews we have done here at UnHerd. Professor Johan Giesecke, one of the world’s most senior epidemiolog... (2020)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)