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FOR SEVEN decades Britons had daily contact with their queen, as they handled notes and coins bearing Elizabeth II's face. When Elizabeth died in September 2022 she was succeeded on [...]

AFTER SAM ALTMAN was sacked from OpenAI in November of 2023, a meme went viral among artificial-intelligence (AI) types on social media. 'What did Ilya see?' it asked, referring to [...]

The enduring value of an analogue technology T HIS IS THE digital age, and the advice to executives is clear. Managers need to have a digital mindset; the organisations they [...]

It was a year ago this month that China experienced the biggest wave of unrest since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Thousands of people, mostly students and youngsters, gathered [...]

Two thatch huts were still smouldering when Daniel Ellsberg and his group reached the village. It took nothing to destroy them; just a Zippo lighter. Children were searching for toys [...]

India's markets are roaring. They also have serious faults F EW STOCKMARKETS flourished in 2022. Strong performers include ones in commodity-exporting countries like Brazil, Indonesia and the Gulf states, which [...]

A good reed A new history of the written word is no plod through dusty libraries W HY DO READERS love books? For wisdom and wit, the lift of comedy [...]

I f you write a book called 'The Honest Truth About Dishonesty', the last thing you want to be linked to is fake data. Yet a paper by Dan Ariely, [...]

P oliticians' private finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime minister of the Czech Republic, faces [...]

Shell companies, tax havens and European politicians POLITICIANS' PRIVATE finances are a big political issue in central Europe, as Andrej Babis well knows. Mr Babis, a billionaire who is prime [...]

Bummer Looming price rises trigger a panic IN ANXIOUS times, political leaders try to assuage fears. So it was this week when William Lai, Taiwan's prime minister, appealed for calm [...]

Confronted with catastrophe, the national government looks increasingly hapless TWO SHORT months ago Narendra Modi's government was one of the most popular and confident in India's history. Now, judging by [...]

A precious commodity Legacies of old laws leave thousands of Zimbabweans stateless BOTSHIWE DUBE gave birth to all seven of her children at her home. This was not because she [...]

Every sheet of paper has its own unique fingerprint A PIECE of paper is a complicated product. Trees are felled, stripped of their bark, chipped, mashed, and then mixed with [...]

Britain belatedly beefs up its borders THROUGHOUT THE covid-19 pandemic, Britain has had some of the loosest travel restrictions in the rich world. It was slow to introduce quarantine, and [...]

Exams are grim, but most alternatives are worse AROUND THE world covid-19 has messed up children's education. They began to be shut out of classrooms all the way back in [...]

Also on the daily podcast: the challenges of greying prison populations and linking would-be elites to political chaos THE COUNTRY has roundly rejected its dictatorship-era charter and mapped out how [...]

Covid-19 has accelerated the adoption of online government services for everything from welfare to weddings FOR KARINA CELIS and her fiancé James, covid-19 could not have come at a worse [...]

It has accelerated the adoption of online services for everything from welfare to weddings FOR KARINA CELIS and her fiancé James, covid-19 could not have come at a worse time. [...]

AMERICA'S FEDERAL RESERVE recognised the disruptive potential of electronic money long ago. 'This is a service which it is expected will be more and more availed of as the ease [...]

THIS COLUMN comes with an unusual warning—the type that is sometimes called a trigger warning. It will mention a word that was once in common usage in parts of the [...]

SINCE 1785 a full English breakfast has been incomplete without a copy of the Times spread across the kitchen table. From June 29th Britons will have the option of listening [...]

THEY ARRIVED together. The first issue of Vedomosti, Russia's leading business newspaper, appeared in September 1999, a month after Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister and anointed as future president. [...]

Companies are tying their loans to measures of do-goodery EARLIER THIS month WSP, a mid-size Canadian consultancy, announced that it had amended the terms of a loan of $1.2bn. What [...]

When words fail When words fail Drawing is a form of therapy for survivors of atrocities--and a tool of justice ABDUL JABBAR was nine years old when he was given [...]

African countries are struggling to build robust identity systems. That may soon change, thanks to help from an unlikely quarter THE FIRST thing that visitors to the Apartheid Museum in [...]

A new breed of competition regulator takes on the cartels IN OCTOBER Chileans discovered that for ten years they had paid over the odds for toilet paper because of a [...]

Like people, many animals enjoy having a drink every now and again. Rather than sip brandy or Chablis, though, they feed on fermented fruit, but the effects are the same. [...]

Jair Bolsonaro is hemmed in by congress, his advisers and his own misjudgments THE PRESIDENTS of Brazil's two houses of congress live side by side in modern mansions in Brasília, [...]

Who might buy the Telegraph? THE IRON LADY, 'strong and bold in character', is made of gin and champagne. At £24 ($31), the cocktail is overpriced. But so is everything [...]

India's hunt for 'illegal immigrants' is aimed at Muslims, many of them citizens AMIT SHAH, India's home minister, calls them 'termites' and 'infiltrators'. The government will hunt them down and [...]

France and Germany are pushing rival models for defence co-operation, but neither is very ambitiousALPHABET SOUP was not on the menu when EU defence ministers met in Bucharest on January [...]

Notes and queries Notes and queries The curious case of Britain's disappearing banknotes THE claim that Britain is turning into a cashless society has long looked wide of the mark. [...]

A deal to tighten Germany's borders does not resolve Angela Merkel's woes THE drama roiling German politics lately had little to do with the bare facts. Notionally the dispute between [...]

Not as scary as it looks India spends a fortune on defence but wastes much of it IN FEBRUARY India quietly passed a milestone. The release of its annual budget [...]

A new leak ratchets up scrutiny of offshore financial centres THIS week was uncomfortable for a host of well-heeled figures. In the frame were U2's Bono, America's commerce secretary, Wilbur [...]

Never mind visas, some African countries make it hard to get a passport AFRICANS who want to travel have long endured gigantic hassles when trying to obtain visas, not just [...]

Andrej Babis, a media magnate, looks set to win the election in October BACK when newspapers were king, Charles Brownson, an American congressman, used to say that one should never [...]

Another talked-up policy turns out rather timid IN 2015 the median house price in England and Wales was roughly nine times median earnings, probably the highest level ever. Young people [...]

India's clumsy monetary reform puts its economy and institutions at risk SUPPOSE that one day the government of a large and fast-growing economy became convinced that its highest priority was [...]

Independent's day: the founding fathers The loss-making Independent ditches ink, banking on pixels IN ITS heyday the Independent, Britain's youngest national newspaper, was a scrappy place to do journalism--a startup [...]

Displaced but not destroyed The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu. By Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster; 278 pages. JOSHUA HAMMER'S new book, 'The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu', traces the story of [...]

Magnitsky won't go away What links Vladimir Putin's musician chum to a nasty fraud case? SERGEI ROLDUGIN is a humble cellist who is also one of Vladimir Putin's closest friends. [...]

Even paradise has its laws Mossack Fonseca and its homeland are not alone in facing closer scrutiny THE travails of Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm from which a trove [...]

More should be done to make offshore tax havens less murky THREE years ago a watchdog published a series of reports on tax havens based on leaks of confidential documents. [...]

A huge trove of documents has revealed the secrets of offshore business, presaging tougher times for tax havens AS A young man, Ramon Fonseca considered taking holy orders. Instead he [...]