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Addressing the UK’s challenges requires more than the performative politics of populist leaders

Rise in proportion of women working full-time fails to fully offset decline

Buyout firms’ stranglehold over who can buy portfolio groups’ loans under threat as many lenders retrench

Best-performing managers’ punchy bets on stock markets paid off in 2023

Former president aims to wrap up primary contest in New Hampshire next week

Florida governor ends bid for Republican presidential nomination two days before New Hampshire primary

Bloc’s foreign ministers step up pressure on Netanyahu to reverse his resistance to two-state solution

A third of higher education institutions saw a decline in overseas non-EU applications in 2023

Both parties are in denial about the importance and the scale of the financial crisis in higher education

General who has survived 10 assassination attempts keeps Russia guessing about his directorate’s reach and abilities

Western allies of the nation are overstating the fears and failing to truly recognise the benefits

The retirement of John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua spells the beginning of a new period in negotiations

Chinese assets of Bridgewater and Two Sigma surged despite economic downturn and geopolitical tensions

Tehran warns that it has the right to retaliate against ‘the Zionist regime’s organised terrorism’

Lower UK borrowing costs are set to provide the chancellor with more options at March Budget, economists say

Governments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters

The Islamic republic’s direct strikes in Iraq, Syria and Pakistan in recent days suggest not a change of strategy but...

Gains drive Wall Street’s blue-chip index above previous peak in January 2022