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In January 2020, Sir Keir Starmer was asked by ITV News what he thought of Jeremy Corbyn, who was then the Labour party’s outgoing leader: “He’s a colleague and a friend,” he replied. The message Starmer offered in the leadership contest to replace Corbyn was clear: that he would offer a continuation of leftwing economic

It is a quiet way to run a revolution. The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, usually a source of constant source of pronouncements, commitments, strategies and statements about tackling climate change, has been borderline mute this year.  Gfanz, as it’s known, billed as a “watershed” by former Bank of England governor Mark Carney when

The writer is a science commentator Some people covet a rare species of blind Slovenian cave beetle — not because they are enchanted by entomology but because they long for a specimen of Anophthalmus hitleri, better known as the Hitler beetle. The bug, named in the 1930s in homage to the then German Führer, is

UK hopes of securing a quick deal to deepen digital trade ties with the US have run into the diplomatic sands amid growing resistance to such pacts in Washington, technology industry insiders have warned. The sector’s frustrations emerged as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak landed in Washington for a meeting with President Joe Biden at which

The US securities regulator requested a temporary freeze on assets linked to Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, one day after it sued the company on more than a dozen charges. In a filing late on Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission requested a temporary asset freeze on several Binance-linked entities, as well as repatriation

The UK Cabinet Office will tell central government departments to remove all surveillance equipment made by Chinese companies including Dahua and Hikvision from sensitive sites in an attempt to limit potential intelligence-gathering by Beijing. Announcing the decision on Tuesday, the Cabinet Office said the government was “committing to publish a timeline for the removal of

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will arrive in Washington on Wednesday pledging to build an “economic alliance” with the US to counter global threats, while trying to paper over trade tensions between the two sides. Downing Street admitted before the visit that Britain had given up on seeking a free trade deal with the US

The owner of the Telegraph Media Group has been threatened with receivership by lender Lloyds Banking Group over a longstanding debt owed by the parent company controlled by the Barclay family. AlixPartners, the restructuring group, has been lined up to act as receivers of Press Acquisitions, which controls the Telegraph newspapers, if Lloyds decides to take

The future is Asian, argues the respected analyst, Parag Khanna. But this piece of conventional wisdom needs unwrapping. Geographically, Asia is no more a continent than is Europe. “Asia” itself is not even an Asian idea: Europeans invented it. Asians did not conceive of themselves as being part of a single continental entity. The region

Golf’s US-based PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league LIV have agreed to join forces, ending a long-running feud. The PGA Tour and Riyadh’s Public Investment Fund have agreed to create a jointly managed entity to house their commercial operations, and intend to cease their pending litigation. The European Tour has also signed up

The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and power plant that unleashed floodwater across southern Ukraine is likely to limit Kyiv’s options in its incipient counter-offensive, according to military officials and analysts. Moscow and Kyiv traded blame on Tuesday for the demise of the dam, which spanned the Dnipro river and is located in Russian-occupied Kherson

Ilona was driving through Ukraine in the early hours of Tuesday when she heard news of the damage to the Nova Kakhovka dam. She panicked — her mother still lived across the frontline, in Russian-occupied territory close to the river. “She doesn’t walk well. She never leaves her yard,” Ilona said. Her mother lives two

Try to get your head around the magnitude of American power in 1955. The US had set up Bretton Woods and Nato. It had revived Japan and western Europe. It led mass culture (Hollywood, Elvis Presley) and high art (Abstract Expressionism, Saul Bellow). It had a monstrous share of global output. It had leaders as

The venture capital giant Sequoia Capital is splitting its China business into a separate entity amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. The renowned Silicon Valley firm, which made bets on fast-growing tech companies such as TikTok parent ByteDance and Alibaba, said on Tuesday it will run its Chinese business as a “completely independent” entity

Prince Harry told the High Court in London on Tuesday that his civil lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers was intended to hold some “editors and journalists to account” as he described the effect of “incredibly invasive” articles that caused him to go into a “downward spiral”. The Duke of Sussex, the first British royal to give

After weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory and cross-border raids — a prelude to the long-awaited counter-offensive now gathering pace — it is Russia’s turn to distract and destabilise its enemy. The destruction of the Kakhovka dam over the Dnipro river is far more than a psychological game. It will have long-lasting humanitarian

European stocks fell on Tuesday as investors digested fresh data signalling a slowdown in the eurozone economy, ahead of the bloc’s monetary policy decision next week. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 was down 0.1 per cent, while France’s Cac 40 fell 0.3 per cent and London’s FTSE 100 gave up 0.4 per cent, extending losses from

The Kakhovka dam spanning the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine was blown up on Tuesday, flooding swaths of territory ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive and threatening crucial water supplies to a nuclear plant. Russia and Ukraine blamed each other for the attack, which Kyiv warned would have “catastrophic consequences” and affect dozens of settlements,

The Serbian president said he is not opposed to his country selling ammunition to intermediaries who ship it to Ukraine, in a sign that Russia’s staunch Balkan ally is pivoting westwards. Aleksandar Vučić has traditionally backed Moscow and refused to align with western sanctions on Russia after its full scale invasion of Ukraine. But in

It was not by chance that Rachel Reeves, who hopes to become Britain’s first female chancellor, chose to launch Labour’s new economic plan last month while she was in Washington DC. “It’s going to be Bidenomics on steroids,” says one adviser to the UK’s opposition party — a reference to the large subsidies for technology

The romantic dream of becoming a “digital nomad” is almost as old as the internet itself. Steven K Roberts — a pioneer who rode across the US on a computerised bicycle more than 30 years ago — wrote back in 1994 about creating a “Virtual Technomadic Flotilla . . . of travellers all over the world” on the basis