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Liam Evans column: ‘The Left needs the confidence and optimism to dream’

Trump wants flying cars. Javier Milei plans to abolish the peso and end inflation forever. The Right are nothing if not ambitious. But the same can’t be said for the Left. Progressives used to be the dreamers. Progress…

‘Tech companies must answer for online violence against women’

These are just a small number of the dangers women and girls are forced to navigate in an increasingly hostile online world. Our government has pledged to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) by 2034, but we…

‘Labour wrote the rules on landmines. We can do it again on autonomous weapons’

It is an unusual admission for a Prime Minister. That he was persuaded, on someone else’s evidence, to authorise lethal force, and that he was wrong. He now faces a decision that turns on precisely that question. Who…

The world wants to secure AI. It may have to try without the US.

Proposals for global AI protections and guardrails abound this week at the U.N. General Assembly, but they can’t do much without the U.S. on board. President Donald Trump flatly rejected in his own speech to the assembly…

Russia’s untouchable tycoons

But attention is turning to the compromise that got it over the line: dropping two Russian billionaires. On the show, hosts Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton discuss reactions from around the EU to the deal, plus…

Der Rivale im Weißen Haus: Gipfel zwischen Trump und Xi

In Washington sprechen Donald Trump und Xi Jinping über Zölle, Taiwan und die Vorherrschaft bei Künstlicher Intelligenz. POLITICO-Reporter Hans von der Burchard analysiert, ob bei den verhärteten Fronten diplomatische…

Race for traction

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Accessibility: Europe’s hidden growth engine

It establishes common accessibility requirements for products and services such as e-commerce, banking, smartphones, computers, ticketing systems, self-service terminals and e-books. By harmonising standards across the…

Mélenchon’s allies try to temper his debt write-off rhetoric

Yet it appears to resonate with French voters, and the presidential candidate was quick to publicize a Sept. 5 poll showing 43% of the public supported canceling parts of the debt, while only 31% opposed it. Critics of…

Rebellion in a tiny English village reveals Burnham’s peril on migration

Though unlikely, ministers could still back away from Piddington, given that the village’s referendum vote fell within the consultation period during which the government must consider local objections to the proposals.…