Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
73EconPol
When a Football Ruling Moves a Trade Relationship
At the bottom sits a cache of emails and documents published in 2018, at a time when European football's governing body was already pursuing Manchester City over alleged financial irregularities. That tranche led to the...
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74EconPol
Brazil Election Lula Flavio Bolsonaro Minas Gerais Bellwether
The candidacy at the top of Brazil's ballot rests on an accident of law. In 2018, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed on corruption charges. He spent 580 days behind bars. His conviction was then quashed. That is the...
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75EconPol
FEC Filings Reveal Quiet AI Arms Race in US Campaigns
Two teams, two toolkits, one calendar. As the 2026 midterms the US elections held halfway through a president's four year term approach, Democratic and Republican campaigns are assembling different machines out of...
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76EconPol
Brazil Election Narrows to Lula Versus Flavio Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27 year prison sentence for attempting a coup to overturn it. The movement he started did not leave the stage with him. It put his eldest son forward instead. Flavio Bolsonaro, 45, has served...
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77EconPol
Estonia Accuses Moscow of Tallinn Arson Sabotage
On 18 August 2026, police in Latvia detained a third person in connection with a fire in Tallinn. Two other Latvian citizens had been taken into custody the day before. They are suspected of setting a building alight in...
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78EconPol
Tennessee Woman Survives Lethal Injection State Says Protocol Worked
Tennessee set out on Wednesday night to execute Christa Pike by lethal injection, and Christa Pike did not die. She is 50 years old and was convicted 30 years ago of murdering a schoolmate. Witnesses reported that she...
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79EconPol
Tesco Offers Paid Safe Leave for Domestic Abuse Victims
It did not appear in policy, because home life was treated as separate from the job, and the payroll was not expected to know about it. The union that represents shopworkers compresses that stretch of time into a single...
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80EconPol
Junaid Hafeez Blasphemy Appeal After Thirteen Years
A phone sits somewhere in a court building in Punjab in a drawer, in an evidence bag, in whatever container Pakistani courts keep for electronic exhibits. Most phones hold nothing that could end a life. A photo of a...
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81EconPol
UK Budget Tax Rises May Target Pensioners and Frozen Thresholds
The most consequential document in British politics has not yet been published. It is the Budget due in November, and the Chancellor's Downing Street speech reads as a draft of its opening pages. Rachel Reeves refused...
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82EconPol
Manchester City 900m Finding and Legal Bill
The panel concluded that City had arranged "sham" contracts to boost revenues to comply with spending rules. The number that matters now is not a transfer fee but a legal bill, and no final figure has been put on it...
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83EconPol
Tennessee Halts Executions After Failed Lethal Injection
Christa Pike, 50, had been sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of 19 year old Colleen Slemmer, an attack carried out alongside her then boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. She was scheduled to be put to death on Wednesday...
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84EconPol
UK warns universities over China intelligence research links
Every autumn, the doors of British universities open again. Lecture halls fill. Libraries reissue cards to returning students. Supervisors meet a new cohort of doctoral candidates. It repeats in stone quadrangles and in...
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