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Britain’s Migration Reversal Is Changing How Indian Students See the UK
Britain’s falling net migration figures are reshaping how Indian students and families judge the value of a UK degree.
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Economics
The Iran war is about to enter the British shopping basket
The Iran crisis is beginning to move beyond oil and into the hidden petrochemical systems that underpin modern…
Defence
HMS Spey and the End of British Gunboat Diplomacy in the South China Sea
Britain is sailing through the South China Sea as if history has not moved. HMS Spey, a Royal…
Economics
The Bank of England Missed Its Chance to Raise Rates and Break Britain’s Cheap Money Addiction
The Bank of England should have raised interest rates. By holding back, it protected the cheap money regime…
Further reporting
Defence
Britain’s Army crisis is not conscription. It is the collapse of mobilisation capacity
Britain
Middle East conflict exposes Britain’s hidden energy vulnerability
Britain
Britain’s immigration crackdown is not about deportations but about stripping permanence from millions before the rules change
Britain
The drivers who helped build Uber’s success are now trying to build something different
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Economics
Britain Did Not Become Great by Abolishing Slavery. It Became Great by Running It
The UN has now voted to call the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Britain abstained. The United States voted against. That…
Economics
The Bank of England’s MCP unanimous vote hid a deeper fight over inflation
The Bank of England’s March decision to hold rates at 3.75 percent looked calm on the surface. Its own minutes…
Britain
Once British Bases Launch Strikes on Iran, Britain Becomes Part of the War
Britain cannot claim neutrality while allowing RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to be used for strikes on Iran. Once its…
In depth
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Is Raising Productivity. Britain’s Economy Is Absorbing the Gains
This is the second article in a series examining why artificial intelligence can raise productivity without raising living standards. While the first piece focused on how AI increases output per hour, this follow-up explains…
Defence
Britain Left Its ISIS Detainees including Shamima Begum in Kurdish Camps. Now Those Camps Are Collapsing
Economics
AI Is Raising Productivity. That Is Not the Same Thing as Raising Prosperity
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Driven Data Centre Growth Is Colliding with Transformer Shortages and Raising the Risk of Prolonged Electricity Rationing in Britain
Law
The Palestine Action Judgment and the Limits of Proscription Power
The High Court’s Palestine action judgement holds that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and disproportionately in invoking terrorism…
Journalism
Labour Together and the Hollowing of Labour: How a Party of Working People Became a Managed Machine
Labour was founded to represent working people as a class, not to manage politics as a career. Yet…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI Is Breaking the University Monopoly on Science
Science is no longer limited to campuses. As AI and automation take over experimental work, discovery shifts to…
Background reading
Culture
Populism Is Not a Democratic Breakdown. It Is What Happens When Politics Is Shut Down
Populism does not arise because voters reject democracy. It arises when democratic systems remove major economic and social decisions from public contest and insulate…
Across the section
Diplomacy
Why Kemi Badenoch Thinks Britain Still Has Leverage Over China
Diplomacy
Europe Without a Guarantor: Why Britain Is Reopening the China Question
Long Read
Why Labour Blocked Andy Burnham And What It Reveals About The Party Now
Journalism
The BBC’s Iran Images Are Powerful. The Attribution Is Not Proven
Medicine
Britain Has Chosen Big Pharma Over the NHS
Britain has accepted a trade linked medicines pricing reset that makes the NHS pay more. NICE’s new chief executive has…
Economics
The Surplus Delusion: Why the Real Enemy Is Not Mercantilism but the Credit State
A leading strand of financial commentary argues the world has lost its way and fallen back into mercantilism. An Austrian…
The wider report
Economics
Britain’s Economy Is Not Broken. It Is Being Quietly Mismanaged
Britain does not feel like a country in crisis. That is precisely the danger. Growth limps on, spending rises, and the system appears stable. Yet beneath the calm language, the economy is losing its…
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Britain
Why Britain Turned a Chinese Embassy Into a National Security Crisis
Diplomacy
Europe’s Uneasy Silence as the United States Tests the Limits of International Law
Finance
London Is Becoming an Industrial Disassembly Market and 2026 Will Accelerate It
Economics
Britain’s Pressure Economy: Why 2026 Will Test Housing, Bills, and Social Order
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Economics
Britain’s Quiet Crackdown: How Insurance, Courts, and Banks Are Building the 2026 Order
Britain’s domestic order is being rebuilt quietly through insurance wordings, fast court processing, data pipelines, and payment rules. By 2026 the system is likely…
Defence
The Seabed Is Now a Battlefield. Europe Is Still Prosecuting It Like the 1980s
The world’s data, energy and power grids run through cables and pipelines on the seabed. After Nord Stream…
Law
Jack Baud and the New Meaning of ‘Propaganda’: Sanctions, Speech and Power in Peacetime Europe
This article examines the EU sanctions imposed on Jack Baud, a former Swiss Army colonel, and compares them…
World
The BBC Is Losing Its Grip on Britain’s Narrative
Britain’s broadcast era is ending. As audiences migrate to platforms and narratives form outside legacy media, the BBC…
Culture
Fifth Floor, Christmas Day
The heating had been on long enough. Long enough to warm the walls. He switched it off and put his…
Law
What Losing Both Legs Is Worth Depends on Which Side of the Atlantic You’re On
Two construction workers suffer the same catastrophic accident and lose both legs. One is in Seattle, inside Washington State’s workers…