A problem for governments will be how to finance their budget deficits, which they currently often do by monetising them. If Latin American governments can no longer do this as their economies are ...

Your columnist’s reminder to the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, of the dire consequences of the Blair government’s “light touch” regulation brings to mind similar cautionary tales from the other side ...

Kate Bingham characterises the NHS’s approach to new medicines as “extreme drug rationing” and argues the NHS must pay higher prices for “innovative” new treatments if the UK is to meet the government ...

Sarah O’Connor fears losing her apostrophe as names become “less diverse, less unusual, less upsetting to machines” ( Opinion, July 22). Alternatively, she could revert to the orthography of her Irish ...

The more recent output of the award-winning television writer Jimmy McGovern suggests that he is interested in two overlapping questions: why do people do bad things, and what happens after they’ve ...

The EU and US are closing in on a trade deal that would impose 15 per cent tariffs on European imports, similar to the agreement Donald Trump struck with Japan this week.

Tariffs on more than 90% of British exports to Asian country will be cut, including cosmetics, clothes, food and drink ...

Increase highlights challenge Labour has in bringing down household bills as pledged during the general election ...

US restaurants have struggled as consumers trim spending on food away from home to combat rising menu prices. US inflation has moderated since the surge of 2022, but still rose to 2.7 per cent in June ...

Tesla’s second-quarter profits fell 23 per cent as sales of its electric vehicles continued to slide, with investors bracing for more fallout from chief executive Elon Musk’s fracture with Donald ...

Alphabet’s second-quarter profits topped estimates as the parent company of Google showed strong growth in its advertising and cloud computing divisions, while it boosted its spending plans on ...

Kemi Badenoch has said she wants to be Britain’s Javier Milei as she held up Argentina’s state-slashing president as the ...