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Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own books”. Even ...
Ferrari also now offers far more opportunities for personalisation, from custom paint-jobs to added carbon fibre and lavish ...
The House of Representatives intends to begin work on the “One Big Beautiful Bill” at 9am today. Senators spent 27 hours ...
If the picture appears bleak for America’s graduates, it is bleaker still for Uncle Sam. Student lending was once profitable ...
As South Africa is buffeted by criticism from President Donald Trump and other American conservatives—some of it unfair and ...
Yet the race for a handful of superstar software engineers masks a slump for everyone else. As Chat GPT -like generative AI ...
O N JULY 1ST, after 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate, America’s Senate passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), ...
In some ways it is surprising that China, a forceful surveillance state, did not roll out digital ID s earlier. Dozens of ...
Scott Bessent, Mr Trump’s treasury secretary, attempted to set the record straight. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, a right-wing podcaster, released on April 4th, Mr Bessent said that only ...
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In response, Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, introduced a policy called “supply-side structural reform”. Its original aim was to ...