Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
49EconPol
Britain's Rejoining Arithmetic Starts at £742,000 an Hour
The Institute for Public Policy Research puts the figure at £6.5bn a year. That is the value of goods exports the think tank says a mutual recognition agreement on product standards could have added to Britain's trade...
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50EconPol
The $130 Barrel And The Bill At The Pump
A barrel of oil would cost US$130. The straits of Hormuz and Bab el Mandeb would be largely closed to commercial shipping. Damage to oil infrastructure in the region would keep widening rather than healing. The recovery...
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51EconPol
Two Clocks, One Review: New York's Police Accountability Bind
Two clocks began running in New York City this October, and only one of them came with a press release. The first measures a review of how the New York Police Department uses force the first such review in a decade,...
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52EconPol
The Fee That Hides Behind the Information Icon
The pay and display machine, and the assumption that the price on the sign is the price you pay, is being dismantled across England. Many councils have taken out their pay and display machines and replaced them with...
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53EconPol
Gold Near $4,200 as Two Weekend Stories Pull the Price
In late February 2026, war broke out between the United States and Iran. Since that eruption, gold has lost about a fifth of its value. An ounce is the unit in which the world quotes gold, and on Monday one ounce was...
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54EconPol
Russia's Shadow Over Brexit: A Clear Answer
When he entered Number 10, he asked whether there had been interference from Russia in the 2016 referendum. The answer he received was clear: Yes, there was. Burnham made that answer public this week on the podcast "The...
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55EconPol
Five Men Three Vans And Iran Reach Into Britain
Just after midnight on 27 September, three white vans turned into the lanes of Whelford, a village on the edge of RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Inside were five men from London, and one of them was already on the...
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56EconPol
The International Criminal Court Sanctioned Brick by Brick
Navi Pillay, a former judge of the International Criminal Court, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 10 October 2026. Hours later, Washington announced sweeping sanctions — penalties such as asset freezes and...
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57EconPol
NYC EMS Low Pay Drives Attrition And Emergency Delays
The call comes in as respiratory distress, and Natasha Villaruel, a paramedic, has about 20 seconds to make a life saving decision. She is 36, born in Jamaica, in Brooklyn since she was four. Vitals get read from the...
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58EconPol
Five Gunshots at School Pickup Cost a Neighborhood
Start with one Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill. Five or six gunshots, heard by witnesses. Around four in the afternoon. One small three way corner ringed by about five apartment complexes. Now apply the multiplier,...
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59EconPol
Blue Nile drone strike kills 30 outside displacement camp
The protection that a displacement camp is supposed to provide failed on Friday in Wad al Mahi, a locality in Sudan's southeastern Blue Nile region. At least 30 displaced people were killed, among them 26 women and four...
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60EconPol
Navi Pillay Nobel Peace Prize Honors International Justice Career
On October 9, 2026, a committee in Oslo answered a question it has been answering for more than a century: what does the law do when the institutions that enforce it are themselves under attack?. The Norwegian Nobel...
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