Why doesn’t the UK become closer to the EU?
2025-12-05
Britain wants stronger growth—but politics keeps getting in the way. Zanny Minton Beddoes, Edward Carr and our Britain team unpack why closer EU ties remain difficult, how migration shapes the debate and whether the UK could ever rejoin the single market.
00:00 – Why not get closer to Europe?
02:10 – What is really happening with immigration
05:05 – How British voters feel about immigration
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A rare look inside Iran
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Arrested as he tried to leave Iran, Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, was detained for seven weeks in 2019. Now the regime has invited him back.
John Bolton: “Trump is on a downhill slope”
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The Republican Party has a near-universal devotion to Donald Trump. But according to John Bolton, the president’s former national security adviser, Mr Trump’s grip on the party is starting to weaken.
Why birth rates are dropping everywhere
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The world’s population is heading for collapse—but how worried should we be? Our top economics editors explain why women around the globe are having fewer babies.
Were we wrong about Trump’s tariffs?
2025-10-17
Despite stark warnings from The Economist when Donald Trump unveiled his tariff regime on ‘Liberation Day’, America’s economy continues to grow.
Will that continue? Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Edward Carr, deputy editor and a panel of our journalists discuss whether they were wrong about the President’s trade policy–or if a reckoning awaits.
Subscribers can watch the full interview as part of our new video series “The Economist Insider”.
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