The Last Word: When disruption multiplies faster than organisations can catalogue it, the advantage shifts from predicting what comes next...
Analysis
Governments are pouring record public sums into space. But the returns, and above all the rockets, still belong mostly to America and China...
The Last Word: A longer life will require more than one version of you, and the judgement to know which of the older ones are worth keeping...
Covid faded, the politics it fed did not. The populist parties that rode the pandemic dropped the vaccine talk but have all outlasted it...
Teenagers read worse than they did, the newest PISA scores find. Ban their social media if you like; the adults, who vote, fare no better...
Firms worked hard to make their supply chains greener. The more urgent threat is the weather now breaking them, and few have a plan for it...
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer...
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. ...
The Last Word: When competitiveness is beginning to slip, asking people to work harder can actually look suspiciously like moving backwards...
Net zero began as a description of the planet’s carbon budget. It now describes jobs, buildings, and growth, and means less with...
OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT and Anthropic will not touch them. It is hardly a reinvention, yet ads never stopped anyone using Google...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity...
Reykjavik wants the market without the politics. So do Europe’s wealthiest hold-outs, and Britain, above all, ought to be taking note...