Revisiting our favourite Weekend Intelligences https://t.co/HA9Wh34W9X ...

Several countries navigated choppy waters well this year. But one of them stands out for political improvements after 13 years of civil war had claimed more than half a million lives https://t.co/pqcchKB8vo ...

There is no foolproof way to judge an unfamiliar job candidate. If you are interviewing a stranger, it is best done with a script, a scoring system and a hefty dose of realism. No question https://t.co/yB5krevcEY ...

In an age of polarisation and fake news, many children struggle to make sense of their world. The @Econ_Foundation helps them acquire the skills to do so calmly and rationally https://t.co/OiUHcr8PHB ...

At least 1,722 health-care workers were killed during the war, about 10% of the workforce. Those left have been working flat out, enduring the same air strikes, food and water shortages as all Gazans https://t.co/h7D3dBfeu5 ...

The second phase of the ceasefire plan was meant to include the deployment of an International Stabilisation Force, the appointment of a technocratic civilian government and the disarmament of Hamas. So far none of this has happened https://t.co/UW6v41pIb3 ...

Brazil’s energy ministry reckons that investments in South America’s newest oil frontier could reach 280bn reais ($52bn) and create 350,000 jobs. Such expectations probably explain why Brazilians increasingly support drilling https://t.co/R2HPb8dAsp ...

The focus of Labour’s Northern Ireland Troubles Bill will be on “information recovery”: telling families, and the public, what happened. But there are significant blocks on information being published https://t.co/Xd2jQpr066 ...

Britons now trust their banks almost as much as they trust their courts, a parity which has not existed since 2008. Trust in the police has also seen a record drop https://t.co/A1oN7KRDCq ...

On “Babbage” this week, an evidence-based guide on how to survive—and thrive—during the festive season, with @alokjha https://t.co/gtKlz7yinG ...