Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
109EconPol
Australia Ageing Arithmetic Hinges on AI Bet
The first assumption to crack in Australia's long term outlook is the quiet one at the base of it: that births outrun deaths. For the first time, deaths are projected to outnumber births in the 2060s, according to the...
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110EconPol
One in Eight Workers Never Check Their Pension Forecast
Every April a figure changes that will help decide what millions of people live on, and most of them have never looked it up. As of April 2026, the flat rate state pension stands above £13,000 a year. The mechanism is...
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111EconPol
Saudi Pipeline Strike Cuts Oil Flow and Raises Pump Prices
For years the oil market's working assumption was that Saudi Arabia's East West pipeline sat outside the reach of the Gulf's wars. Last Friday, a suspected Iran aligned Iraqi militia attacked it, and the assumption came...
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112EconPol
Eritrea Open Letter Answered With Arrests and Silence
September in the Asmara highlands comes with the tail of the rains and with three major Orthodox Christian festivals, among them the Geez New Year, which Eritrean and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians observe a season of...
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113EconPol
FBI Warned of Tradwife Dating Profiles to Dox ICE Agents
Profile as an Enforcement Alarm A single frame holds an entire winter: a desk in a Chicago field office, a forwarded email chain, a printout of a dating profile showing a woman with a cast iron pan, and a routing slip...
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114EconPol
Europe Offers Canada Associate Member Seat With No Legal Status
Maple syrup is one of Canada's best known exports. Canada bottles that taste and ships it around the world. In Brussels this week the flavour picked up a second note: the sweet, unfinished tang of a country asking for a...
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115EconPol
Loneliness-Economy-Young-English-Rebuild-Friendship-by-Hand
New research from the Institute for Public Policy Research shows that loneliness among young people in England is no longer a private misfortune but a measurable social trend. The number of young people in England with...
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116EconPol
The Race to Stop Builders Who Vanish With Deposit
Two teams are running the same course, and they do not agree on where the finish line sits. One is the government, which has promised a crackdown on rogue builders and a register of trusted traders due to start this...
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117EconPol
37 Miners Die in Nigerian Custody Amid Illegal Gold Trade
The last time the men in that cell drew clean air, they were standing above the gold pits at Wushishi Lukoto, west of Minna. That was on 15 and 16 September 2025, when the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps moved...
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118EconPol
Houthis Surpass Hezbollah as Key Iran Axis Partner
In Iraq, demonstrators carried signs insulting Saudi Arabia and Israel. The wording echoed slogans seen not long ago further south, in Yemen. The men holding the signs belong to one of Iraq's Shiite Muslim (adherents of...
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119EconPol
Social Security 2027 COLA Forecasts and Trust Fund Fixes
The hand that signed four decades of payroll deductions no longer signs them. It holds a benefit statement instead, and every autumn it waits for one number to be printed there. That number is the cost of living...
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120EconPol
BoE Holds Rates Warns on War Plans 146bn Gilt Sale
A household spending £100 a month on petrol and diesel illustrates the arithmetic. The Office for National Statistics reports that the average price of both fuels rose by almost a quarter last month. 1] A quarter of...
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