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Free speech debate. Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways

Muddled laws give them wide discretion | Britain (2025)


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Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry

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)


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The sports business: Which sport is the best business?

American sports leagues (NBA, NFL, NHL) are more competitive, lucrative and monopolistic than European ones like the English Premier League| Busine... (2023)


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Labour’s green industrial policy will not cure Britain’s economic ills | The Economist

Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)


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U.K. Blocks Microsoft’s Activision Bid - The New York Times

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)


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The Competition for High-Skill Immigrants Intensifies - Marginal REVOLUTION

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)


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Radical Research. Healthy Curiosity | The Economist

How to make the country’s new innovation agency work | Leaders Some lessons on inventing the future in Britain (2022)


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Karl Popper on democracy - From the archives: the open society and its enemies revisited

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)


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Financial services - What Brexit will do to the City of London | Britain

The damage will be noticeable but not disastrous (2020)


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10 Types of European Breads With Fascinating Stories

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)


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London Police Are Taking Surveillance to a Whole New Level - The New York Times (2020)

The city, stepping into a debate over privacy, says it will use real-time facial recognition technology “to tackle serious crime.” (2020)


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Refugees make great entrepreneurs and workers - If only they are allowed to - The Economist

“...Both Ms Khoury and Mr Rahimeh benefited from sales and marketing training by the Enterpreneurial Refugee Network (TERN), a charity. Charlie Fra... (2019)


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Changing the guard at HSBC - Asia bound - 2018 - The Economist

YOU spend 38 years at a mighty global bank, the last seven as chief executive. As boss you clean up a stinking mess, the legacy of ill-conceived ac... (2019)


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Most mental-health problems are untreated. Trained laypeople can help - The Economist

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)


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The English are bad at playing football—but brilliant at selling it - The Economist

MOPEDS emblazoned with Manchester United’s crest drone through the streets of Bangkok. Fans in Okene, Nigeria, dance in red and white kits on the t... (2018)


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Why Europe’s train network needs more, not less, competition - The Economist

TRAINS are not quite the third rail of European politics. But they are still causing lots of angst. France has already endured three months of stri... (2018)


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The Brexit Short: How Hedge Funds Used Private Polls to Make Millions - Bloomberg

Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse. (2018)



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England has become one of the world’s biggest education laboratories - The Economist

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)


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Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic? - The New York Times

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)


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What is the EU’s customs union and why is it central to Brexit? - The Economist

BREXIT keeps on throwing up surprises. One came this week when the issue of a customs union with the European Union suddenly moved into the politic... (2018)


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The problem with Britain’s (planned) nuclear-power station - The Economist explains

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)


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Why Britain is wooing India - The Economist explains

WHEN Britain eventually leaves the European Union it will prosper by trading farther afield. So argues Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, ahead... (2018)


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History of the word "tea": How the word "tea" spread over land and sea — Quartz

With a few minor exceptions, there are really only two ways to say "tea" in the world. One is like the English term—té in Spanish and tee in Afrika... (2018)


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How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

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)


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East India Company

Encyclopedia Britannica: " ENGLISH TRADING COMPANY", East India Company, also called English East India Company, formally (1600–1708) Governor and... (2017)


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The walls are closing in on Clearview AI as data watchdogs get tough | MIT Technology Review

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)


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Breaking out of the Malthusian trap: How pandemics allow us to understand why our ancestors were stuck in poverty

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)


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How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays

In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How? How and why did the modern w... (2021)


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How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film

Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say th... (2024)


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International finance: Why oligarchs choose London for their dirty money

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)


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Why rivers shouldn't look like this | It's Complicated

The quintessential image of a river you might recognise from post cards and paintings – nice and straight with a tidy riverbank – is not actually h... (2023)


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Napoleon's Great Blunder: Spain and Portugal 1808

In 1808, Napoleon's rivalry with Britain led to an ill-fated intervention in Portugal and Spain, that sparked a nationalist revolt against the Fren... (2023)


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Why lockdowns are the wrong policy - Swedish expert Prof. Johan Giesecke

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)


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Where did English come from? - Claire Bowern | TED-Ed

When we talk about ‘English’, we often think of it as a single language... (2018)


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Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)


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