The world this week-Business Tesco reported a worse-than-expected pre-tax loss of 6.4 billion ($9.6 billion) for the year to February 28th, one of the biggest losses in British corporate history. The world's third-biggest supermarket retailer, which...
Young voters Apathetic fallacy Online voting could transform Britain's electorate Fancy a snap election? ONE-BY-ONE they approach the lectern, explaining why they will cast their votes. Regardless of whether you do or don't, policies will be implemen...
Greece's finance minister Absent professor The immovable Yanis Varoufakis ALMOST every recent Greek finance minister has been an Athens university economics professor moonlighting as a politician. Yanis Varoufakis is no exception. But unlike his pred...
The United States, Japan and trade Don't treat trade as a weapon An Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China GOOD news out of Washington is rare. Last week congressional leaders agre...
Balkan warriors abroad Fight the good fight With the Western Balkans at peace, some go abroad to look for war FROM the Sea of Azov to Aleppo, fighters from the western Balkans are at war. So worried are their governments that laws have been passed to...
The Vatican and Turkey Never forget Forthrightness about a past atrocity provokes a strong reaction IN 1915 Pope Benedict XV wrote to Mehmed V, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, saying that he could hear the echo of the groans of an entire peoplesubj...
Britain NIMBYism and the election The anti-tarmac vote The Conservatives are getting squeezed over big building projects ON first glance, the constituency of Brentford Isleworth, in west London, looks like a typical Conservative Party heartland. It i...
Migrants in the Mediterranean The numbers nightmare Ever more people are drowning while trying to get to Europe IN THE sea separating north Africa from the European Union, the phrase calm waters now has an ominous ring. After the weather improved thi...
Air safety Pressing on A spate of accidents will not put Asians off air travel ON DECEMBER 30th Indonesian officials said they had discovered debris and bodies from AirAsia flight QZ8501, which had vanished two days previously, floating in shallow se...
Race in America The fury of Ferguson Race is America's deepest problem, but multiple small changes can mitigate it RIOTS are rarely so widely anticipated. By 8pm on November 24th, when the prosecutor in Ferguson, Missouri, announced the grand jury's...
