Also in today’s newsletter, Samsung chair cleared of fraud and stock manipulation, and the latest blow against USAID ...

Reform UK has taken the lead in a British opinion poll for the first time, in a move that will alarm Labour and the Conservatives ahead of local elections in May. Public support for Reform UK, the ...

And finally, Chart 3 shows two miners’ stocks: AngloGold Ashanti and Freeport-McMoRan. Gold has, uh, soared this month ahead of tariff implementation. Copper has not, as people re-evaluate just how ...

Anglo American chief executive Duncan Wanblad has warned that US President Donald Trump’s wave of new tariffs will push up the cost of mining production for years. Wanblad’s remarks come as a ...

London market’s last large industrial conglomerate revealed plans last week to shed two of its four core divisions ...

Opec will stop using the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) to independently monitor its members’ production levels, ...

Daniel Khalife embarked on ‘fantastical plan’ to be a double agent and sparked a nationwide manhunt after prison escape ...

The Carpathians stretch from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine and Romania in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some ...

In the podcast The Pitcairn Trials, the journalist Luke Jones tells the grimly disturbing story of those islanders and a ...

On 22 November, MicroStrategy closed at an all-time high of $421.88, while bitcoin surged to $98,998. Bloomberg called its strategy an “ infinite money glitch ” at the time and CEO Michael Saylor ...

Trump’s tariffs apply to about 40 per cent of US imports (excluding Mexico, the share is about one-quarter). But while the scope of the new duties is broad, the US is not a very open economy: in 2024, ...

A growing body of research has raised questions about the environmental effects of microplastics. A study last month found their presence increased the spread of antibiotic drug resistance by up to ...