India’s Narendra Modi fights middle-class malaise in Delhi poll
Delhi, a territory that includes India’s seat of government New Delhi, has long been an elusive political prize for Modi. While the BJP holds all of the parliamentary seats in Delhi, which has a ...
Can Friedrich Merz still fix Germany?
The frontrunner to become chancellor has bold plans for economic reform, but a flirtation with the far-right has hurt his campaign ...
US companies endure tariff whiplash
Alphabet’s cloud services missed growth expectations last quarter, American companies are scrambling to protect their supply chains in the face of all the back and forth on tariffs, and China is ...
Why Big Oil is resisting Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill'
US President Donald Trump wants energy producers to drill for more oil. He claims it will lower prices for consumers and tackle inflation. But oil companies have a different set of priorities — and ...
The country that emigration left behind
Waves of departures for jobs abroad and a low birth rate have emptied Bulgaria’s villages. The social fabric is at stake ...
Can Reform rock Britain’s two-party system?
Reform UK has become the latest alternative party to top Britain’s political opinion polls, after a YouGov survey placed it ahead of the Conservatives and Labour, who have a century-old duopoly on ...
Ukrainians in Britain weigh up their future as visas expire
Antonina and Teia are among more than 200,000 Ukrainians who have arrived in the country since war broke out on emergency three-year visa schemes that will begin to run out in the coming months. Women ...
Sadler’s Wells East is a bold new step for the dance centre
Yet when Irish architects Sheila O’Donnell and John Tuomey are chatting about the spaces in their new Sadler’s Wells East building in London, which opens on February 6, they highlight a point of ...
Five bars for a quiet midweek drink in the City of London
A quiet drink, then, but where? Midweek, the City’s pubs are often packed since the rise of hybrid working — not ideal when you just want a nice glass of wine and a quiet scroll. Perhaps a convivial ...
‘We’re going to fix Harvey Nicks’
Like many an SW1 woman in the 1990s, the champagne-swilling, Lacroix-wearing protagonists of Absolutely Fabulous were powerless to resist Harvey Nichols, the slick, seven-storey fashion emporium that ...
Rebuilding a wardrobe: what if you had to start again?
Clothes can be a source of comfort — and restore a sense of self — to those who have lost their belongings as a result of wildfires or theft ...
The dating sims that find love in unlikely places
Last year, the formula was given a major glow-up in the form of Love and Deepspace by Infinity Nikki developer PaperGames, which updated the 2D manga-style portraits of traditional dating sims into a ...