We scroll, we watch, we scroll, we read, we swipe left, we pass, we swipe right, we like. Then we do it all over again. And again, and again. We are all – sparing a principled few – social media...
Political stability, light regulation, the rule of law – that’s how you attract foreign business. Up until recently, nowhere did it better than Hong Kong. But the city’s dizzying decline into civil revolt has thrown two of the three –...
In Panama, man-made mastery and misery have collided. For a hundred years, its world-renowned canal has achieved the once-unimaginable – linking the planet’s largest oceans. But this marvel of engineering is succumbing to another work of mankind: climate change. Earlier...
A veil of tear gas hangs low over the brick-littered street, shrouding protesters huddled behind ruined cars and rudimentary ramparts. In the distance, as a plume of smoke spirals skyward, an almighty din rises: “Moreno out”. In the weeks since...
Oil, electricity, the internet – all integral pillars of modernity. But our dependence on the planet’s most primordial resource – water – trumps them all. Oceans dominate the globe, but an infinitesimal proportion of the world’s wet stuff is fit...
A €14bn windfall – something most countries would fight to keep, not hand back. But that’s precisely what Ireland is doing. The money constitutes unpaid tax, the EU ruled in 2016, ordering the alleged culprit – tech giant Apple –...
What started in March as a weekend rally, was, by June, a movement one million strong. The first mass march that month was peaceful; a follow-up three days later was anything but. As projectiles rained down on police officers, they...
Just two words – “Yetnahaw Gaâ” – were enough to land him a prison cell. Scrawled in Algerian Arabic and held aloft, it is an expression now synonymous with the country’s desperate struggle for democracy: ‘they all must leave’. The...
No laser bolts; no starships slaloming asteroids; no infantrymen trading high-energy fire. Just 350 demurely dressed individuals crowded into a few Alabama conference rooms. That’s what space conflict looks like. But don’t let the Schriever Wargame’s austere image fool you...
Maverick technology mastermind, or serpentine subordinate of the Chinese state? Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, splits opinion. He’s grown the telecom firm to a $100bn behemoth, but his ties to the Communist Party are clear, and he – like any...
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