Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
61EconPol
Iraq Sets December Deadline To Ban Waze
That line is drawn by Waze, a navigation app that asks its own users to report, live, what lies ahead congestion, road hazards, accidents, speed cameras, police checkpoints and then recalculates the route for everyone...
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62EconPol
Thirty Dead in Kramatorsk as Russia Targets Civilians
The strike landed on Thursday morning, 8 October, in an area next to a dental clinic on Yuvileina Street in Kramatorsk, a city in the Donetsk region. The prosecutor's office said the vehicle was hit at 10am by an aerial...
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63EconPol
UK Living Standards Face Worst Parliament Since 1961
The party in power is on course to preside over the worst parliament for living standards since modern records began in 1961, according to an analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Soaring energy and housing costs...
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64EconPol
Alberta October Vote Puts Price on Union
The mechanics of the 19 October referendum matter as much as the campaign around it. Residents face two options. The first is to stay in Canada. The second is to move ahead with a formal binding referendum on...
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65EconPol
Kyiv Bridges Under Fire Two Ledgers One Winter
"Kyiv's mayor says the capital is being torn apart. The claim is concrete: bridges, data centres, power and water are the systems under attack, and each one has a price. The account given by the city's own officials...
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66EconPol
UK Sugar Rationing Linked to Lower Disease Risk Later
Forty grams. That was the daily sugar allowance for an adult in postwar Britain roughly three level tablespoons, to be spread across cups of tea, baking and desserts. Children were restricted to less than a tablespoon....
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67EconPol
French School Protests Collide With Austerity Budget
The protests began with conditions inside the classroom. Students across France have demonstrated against class cancellations, overcrowded classrooms and run down school buildings. For almost two weeks, students across...
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68EconPol
Froyo Returns to Britain With Queues and Slow Growth
Kiersten Paterno is 19 and a student, and this year she waited 45 minutes for a cup of frozen yoghurt. Froyo frozen yoghurt that customers flavour and top themselves at a bar is a dessert where the buyer does the...
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69EconPol
AI Misuse Tops Corporate Reputation Risk Ranking
Hidden in a Phone A phone lies face down on a desk, and the screen lights up anyway. The sentence costs almost nothing to produce, and that is precisely what makes it interesting. Every promise kept is a deposit, every...
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70EconPol
India Election Chief Faces Voter Roll Objections and Protests
The Election Commission of India describes differing views among its members as a routine part of decision making. The Indian Express reported that two of the three election commissioners, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek...
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71EconPol
Record Diesel Prices and Three Governments Argue Over Export Ban
Diesel has hit record highs in the United Kingdom, across Europe and in the United States. The fallout from the Iran conflict is still working through the system, and Donald Trump is threatening a ban on US diesel...
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72EconPol
Bombers Leave Fairford as Investigation Continues
The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that the bombers stationed at RAF Fairford had been withdrawn and redeployed to their home stations in the United States. The aircraft are understood to number about a dozen B 1s. The...
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