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 ...

Police reforms are unlikely to make much of a dent in the crimes Britain’s home secretary promises to solve https://t.co/X3EL0JjGub ...

In return for health aid, African countries are expected to buy American products, grant America access to their health data and align policies to the Trump administration’s health agenda https://t.co/Ez67mMZYNc ...

In many choirs, a few women routinely sing the tenor part. That no longer attracts the spluttering outrage it once did. But conductors rarely see tenorines, as they are known, as a perfect substitute https://t.co/o6PFJ54gNN ...

The perpetrators of cyber-attacks in Poland are thought to be from the FSB, Russia’s state security service. An expert says it is their first disruptive assault in 12 years https://t.co/h8CreLLMvU ...

Sir Keir Starmer might remain in post for some time—propped up for long enough to do the bidding of his left-wing MPs—or he might be replaced by a convincingly leftist leader https://t.co/sk9QSR6RV5Photo: Getty Images https://t.co/OflmZ8SGaE ...