Also on the daily podcast: Turkey after Erdogan and remembering literary agent Georges Borchardt https://t.co/scZ2yMtKvJ ...

Poland has become accustomed to provocations linked to Russia. But recent cyber-attacks mark a serious escalation of Russia’s digital subversion in Europe beyond Ukraine https://t.co/h8CreLLMvU ...

London gets a bad rap. It’s often portrayed online as a crime-ridden wasteland overrun by migrants. In reality it’s one of the safest major cities in the world: https://t.co/ObrpdmkEsN https://t.co/CCuPNo7fHq ...

An unknown number of powerful men (and some women) trafficked and abused a much larger number of vulnerable women and girls. Those victims urgently need justice https://t.co/f3PFO0RVD7 ...

Even other Scandinavians see Norway as annoyingly wholesome. But revelations from the Epstein files are forcing Norwegians to look in the mirror https://t.co/hSqFl8JqX0 ...

China’s trains may be fast—but hangdog democrats are wrong to think that autocracies have cracked the code of economic dynamism https://t.co/wL7dudHEEn ...

Saudi authorities are promising a tighter focus on a few sectors, in particular tourism, manufacturing and logistics. That would be a welcome shift away from science-fiction schemes that have gobbled up enormous amounts of capital https://t.co/Qxl9HC4rQz ...

“They’ve drifted too far away from the workshop, too far towards the blackboard.” @s1moncox joins @Sarah_Wu_ on this week’s “Drum Tower” to examine why China is promoting skills over degrees https://t.co/FD8JEVZdfA ...

The Epstein files contain 1.4m emails. Working with independent researchers, we have used AI tools to build a picture of the sex offender’s network. It is the first such analysis of its kind https://t.co/dU9dA1lZKh ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa’s international charm offensive has been impressive. A closer neighbour, however, remains unswayed by Syria’s interim president https://t.co/HC5UPUDVkR ...