Tech’s climate cost and TikTok’s day in court
Monday was perhaps one of the most important days for TikTok in the company’s history. The ByteDance-owned app laid out its argument in front of three judges at the US Court of Appeals for the ...
Transcript: Does the UN still matter? With António Guterres
Gideon Rachman That was António Guterres speaking to the United Nations last year. Few would dispute his argument that the world does seem unable to respond to many of the big global crises. But the ...
Transcript: The Fed’s first rate cut in 4 years
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates yesterday for the first time in four years and it was a big one half a percentage point. Fed Chair Jay Powell said that the US economy is in a good place and ...
Schizophrenia: the new drug set to tackle the ‘cancer of psychiatry’
But the healthcare system in the US still struggles to provide adequate care for those with serious mental illness ...
Germany’s SPD looks to halt rise of far right in its Brandenburg bastion
Current polls suggest the AfD will also win in Brandenburg, an outcome that could prove hugely embarrassing for SPD ...
Inside the Bank of London, the unicorn that had an ‘immediate’ need for cash
By July this year, the fintech was calling on investors for more money, saying it had an “immediate” need to raise millions ...
La Roqqa: ideal for a late escape to the Tuscan seaside
For six decades, A-listers have retreated to Il Pellicano, a glam hideaway a few kilometres around the coast, but this year a ...
London transport upgrades stall as financial squeeze bites
Mayor Sadiq Khan argues improvements are needed to stimulate housebuilding in the capital and regenerate neighbourhoods ...
Dutch bank ING to ditch climate laggards as clients
Dutch bank ING will dump large clients it believes are not making sufficient progress on reducing their climate impact, in ...
Europe’s great battery hope Northvolt fights for survival
The stakes are high, and not just for Northvolt. The European Commission made the battery sector one of its industrial ...
Australia’s exemplar for the world on building economic security
Australia turned towards free markets in the 1980s and 1990s under the Labor governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. They ...
Private equity’s new mantra
Plus, one of the billionaire Issa brothers steps back from Asda and the antitrust case rattling American fashion houses ...