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Rachel Reeves has been prudent. Now she needs a purpose

LONDON — When Rachel Reeves was Britain’s shadow chancellor she liked to repeat an anecdote during interviews. The Labour frontbencher would often quote the advice she received from the party’s longest-ever serving chancellor, Gordon Brown. “Prudence is really important Rachel, but
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Planning, power and politics threaten Britain’s AI dreams

NEWPORT, Wales — Road signs around Newport still refer to this sprawling former industrial site as a radiator factory. But soon, it will generate a different kind of heat. Microsoft has chosen this area of South Wales — once

Europe today looks like Renaissance Italy — and that’s a problem

Andrea Dugo is an economist at the European Centre for International Political Economy. In the late 1400s, Italy was the jewel of Europe. Venice ruled the seas; Florence dominated art and finance;

Orbán counts on Trump going full Argentina to save him from election doom

Hungary’s surging opposition is demanding Prime Minister Viktor Orbán explain a “bailout package” he hinted at securing from U.S. President Donald Trump.   Orbán, a longtime Trump ally, traveled to Washington last week

Britain’s Trump-inspired U-turn on crypto 

LONDON — Britain’s financial watchdogs have been on a crypto journey — with a little help from Donald Trump.  The Bank of England publishes its long-awaited rules for stablecoin Monday. Two years

Keir Starmer, climate leader (when the Treasury lets him)

LONDON — Keir Starmer loves to play the climate leader. But only when his political advisers (and the powerful Chancellor Rachel Reeves) tell him he’s allowed. The green-minded U.K. prime minister flies
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