How university expansion split western societies

Leaders’ dreams of immortality are doing strange things to our politics

Ageing societies seeking to preserve living standards will continue to rely on new arrivals — but governments can be clearer about the trade-offs

Earlier attacks targeted alleged Venezuelan cartels that Trump claims were trafficking narcotics

UK prime minister hoping to avoid his Labour predecessor’s failure to push through plan in the 2000s

Crisis over weapons programme crucial to European defence ambitions deepens as Berlin considers alternative partners

Italian F-35 jets intercept Russian MiG-31 fighters over Baltic country’s territory

Luxury sports-car maker says it will scrap planned release of a new range of electric vehicles

Judge gives president 28 days to refile initial 85-page defamation suit in 40 pages or less

Trump ally insists president’s immigration policies are disinflationary

AI fever labelled ‘dotcom on steroids’ as global equities surge

In terms of Trump-style transactionalism, Starmer’s fawning secured few net gains

Brussels seeks Viktor Orbán’s backing to bring forward ban on Russian LNG and lower oil price cap

Former UK ambassador to the US was a backbench MP in House of Commons at the time

Trump says Chinese counterpart approved sale of video app’s American operations

Speculation over what might be in November’s Budget has left me depressed about our capacity for rational policies

UK watchdog says providers have changed practices that led to ‘unfair payouts’ for some stolen or written-off vehicles

Head of company’s Australian division Geraldine Slattery likely to succeed Mike Henry

The physicist and hedge fund manager on why the efficient markets theory is ‘all wrong’, economists with ‘mathematics envy’ — and what Camus can teach us about compromise

Laura Hinton is named co-head of region as year-long ban by sovereign wealth fund bites

For the country to benefit it will need a streamlined process to get the facilities built

AI chipmaker’s chief tells London audience that UK’s first trillion-dollar company will be an AI business 

Making loadsamoney out of private credit

Shortfall between April and August highlights challenge for chancellor Rachel Reeves in November Budget