Leaders
Stop the votes
Britain’s Parliament should have killed Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill
A bad law to deliver a bad policy is too high a price for Tory unity
Galileo’s children
Why Europe is particularly good at big science
CERN and the Very Large Telescope may be European successes. But there is bounty to share
Power trip
Green protectionism will slow the energy transition
Expanding renewable-power capacity is becoming ever harder
The war in Gaza
Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible
A peace process can go wrong in many ways, but a real possibility exists that it could go right
Compassion and its consequences
How to stop over-medicalising mental health
What the world could learn from Britain’s flawed approach
Gensler v Griffin
Bashing hedge funds that trade Treasuries could cost taxpayers money
Why fears about the “basis trade” are overblown
The race for second place
A messy contest is coming to a head behind Donald Trump
Our poll tracker sheds light on that competition. It may yet matter
The learning power of PISA
Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren
The costs of wasting brainpower are huge
COP plea
Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them
An ambitious Brazilian plan launched at the COP could help
Debt break
Germany is in a bizarre fiscal mess of its own making
Three steps to resolve the fiscal panic
A planet-cooking gas
What the world must do to tame methane
The world needs a deal during COP28 to limit a nasty source of emissions
Superpower politics
What does Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy have to teach the world?
A grasp of the subtle interplay between interests, values and the use of force is still useful