Should you buy your employer’s shares?

2025-11-26

“They should be scared.” John Bolton, the US President’s former national security adviser, says Donald Trump would sell out Taiwan for a trade deal with China.

2025-11-21

Nicolas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent, and Adam Roberts, our digital editor, are just back from a rare reporting trip to Tehran. They join our top editors in the studio to discuss the future of the Islamic Republic. After 46 years of theocracy and a brief but bruising 12-day-war, where does power now lie? And with the prospects of a succession crisis, has Iran been permanently weakened—or is it storing up trouble?

00:00 – Has Iran’s defence strategy failed?
01:09 – Who could be the next supreme leader?
03:51 – Can the regime survive for another five years?
04:59 – How Iranian society is changing
06:21 – What could prevent the opening of Iranian society

Watch the full show: https://econ.st/4r9mmzX

An interview with Iran’s foreign minister: https://econ.st/43HWDEL

2025-11-18

Jordan Bardella, the leader of France’s populist-right party, the National Rally, could be the country’s next president. What does his vision for France mean for the EU?

2025-11-16

People are smoking less so why are cigarette companies’ profits soaring? Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, and Callum Williams, our senior economics writer, discuss why the tobacco industry is thriving despite the number of American adult smokers falling by around 20m people in the past decade.

Listen to the full episode: https://econ.st/3LABV3i