A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist https://t.co/Hz6zxJjgXF ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s campaign pitch in 2024 was that it was time to end the chaos in British politics and “put the country first”. Instead, the disorder has continued https://t.co/7bzjHMVLCv ...

Grown-ups have long collected model trains and various curios. But never have they spent so much on toys for themselves https://t.co/0ipQ1g3BBC ...

Officially the Mokrany-Domanove crossing is closed, but in practice it has served as a humanitarian corridor for those escaping Russia’s occupation since the first weeks of the war https://t.co/IiaDS1s0Og ...

You’ve listened to season three of our “Boss Class” podcast, but now you’re wondering how you could actually implement AI at work. Our management columnist will host a special Q&A episode. Email questions to podcasts[at]economist[dot]com https://t.co/FNMQgzfMh4 ...

In the West, the “flexibility” of gig work has been seen by many as a euphemism for looser, or zero, regulation. In India the opposite is true https://t.co/3xM3kOwrON ...

If the Reform UK leader wants to raise taxes on bank profits, there are easier ways to do it than scrapping interest rates on central-bank reserves https://t.co/vnxOXvIzds ...

Europe is facing a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency”, declares Emmanuel Macron. If the continent does not invest in its economy and lift barriers to growth more quickly, it will be “swept aside” https://t.co/1KOrVuXaAu ...

RT Sophie Pedder (@PedderSophie)Europe faces a “geopolitical and geo-economic state of emergency” Macron told us, and will be “swept aside” if it does not reform. After its “Greenland moment”, Europe can’t go on as before. The US is “openly hostile” to Europe and wants it “dismembered”https://t.co/PlAabwM4qz ...

A sweeping labour-market law will give eye-catching new rights to individual workers in Britain https://t.co/oM67mxFPy2 ...