Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That means ensuring things are never too hot, too cold or too dry. The British ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and design our front cover. Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents ...

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is keen to bask in the goodwill: in her conference speech last month, she highlighted the cap as evidence of Labour making Britain better. Yet the cap betrays a ...

The idea that running barefoot might be good for you took off in 2009 when Christopher McDougall, a journalist, published a best-selling book about the Tarahumara, a group of people in Mexico who run ...

Her candidacy for Venezuela’s presidential election last year unified a normally fragmented opposition and inspired hope of change. Her feat, in October 2023, of winning 2.3m votes, or 92% of the ...

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The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ordered him to pay a fine of nearly half a billion dollars. The penalty was ...

Since the first awards in 1901, about 30% of Nobel laureates had emigrated before they made their big discovery, according to data gathered by Max von Zedtwitz, of the University of St. Gallen, and ...

His prose holds a rich vein of gallows humour; he sees literature as a bulwark against cruelty and chaos. Born in Gyula, his father a lawyer and his mother a civil servant, Mr Krasznahorkai grew up ...

To understand front-line economics, consider trade with Russia, investor uncertainty, defence spending and consumer attitudes. For many of the countries, Russia had been a trade partner and supplier ...

T o grasp the ambition behind Africa’s new oil and gas exploration, consider three projects under way at TotalEnergies, a French supermajor. In Uganda it is building the worlds ...

She is poised to become Japan’s prime minister, the first woman to hold the position. Her rise signals an end to the staidness long characteristic of Japanese politics. “This is the end of a long era, ...