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2026-03-04

Will the Iran war spark a global energy crisis? The Economist’s US economics editor, Rachana Shanbhogue, and Rosie Blau, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, discuss how the conflict is driving up oil and gas prices, disrupting global trade routes and what higher energy costs mean for inflation.

00:00 – What is the economic impact of the war in Iran?
01:26 – What does this mean for the global economy and inflation?
02:44 – Which sectors and regions are being hit hardest?
05:00 – Will this be a short-term shock or a lasting global impact?

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2026-02-27

President Trump has amassed his forces around Iran and across the Middle East, in an effort to pressure the country’s leaders to limit its nuclear programme. Negotiators from Washington and Tehran have been meeting in an attempt to avert conflict.

On Insider this week, our deputy editor Edward Carr and a panel of our journalists assess the president’s aims.

00:00 – Mapping the military build-up
02:34 – What America’s aims could be from a strike on Iran
05:13 – Donald Trump’s objectives in negotiations

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2026-02-25

Elon Musk thinks the future of AI might not be on Earth at all—but in orbit.

On the latest episode of Inside Tech, Tom Standage and Alex Hern explore how orbital data centres would work, whether the numbers add up, and why this once outlandish concept is suddenly being taken seriously.

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00:00 – Why put data centres in space?
03:05 The numbers behind orbital compute
06:10 The race for AI dominance

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2026-01-14

One of Binyamin Netanyahu’s main rivals in Israel’s election, Naftali Bennett, says he would “smoke” out Hamas from Gaza, in an interview with The Economist.

2026-01-10

Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu says Arab leaders in private “don’t give a hoot” about the Palestinian issue. In an interview with The Economist, Mr Netanyahu refused to rule out annexation of the West Bank.

2026-01-06

President Trump wants Venezuela’s oil. But getting it out of the ground could take years and at least $100bn in investment, as The Economist’s commodities editor, Matthieu Favas, explains.

2025-11-13

The conflict in Ukraine is grinding on four years after Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion. Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, asks John Foreman, former British defence attaché, why the Russian leader miscalculated going into Ukraine.

2025-09-13

Every four minutes a car is stolen in Britain—but where do they end up? We tracked the new global black market in stolen vehicles.