"In scale, these proposals would mean deporting greater numbers and a greater proportion of the population than former Ugandan President Idi Amin’s deportation of Ugandan Asians"
Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart
www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
If you're interested in Tether, I wrote this for the Economist about an NCA operation into a Russian cash-for-crypto money laundering scheme.
www.economist.com/1843/2025/07...
This is a really painful read, but fantastic digging by Shane Bauer into the children of political dissidents in Syria, disappeared by the security services into orphanages and made to forget the existence of their parents www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/m...
1843 is now publishing regularly in the print Economist as well as digitally. Our debut is this blockbuster investigation into the coup Bolsonaro was plotting, the details of which are INSANE. Kind of like the Battle for Chile as scripted by Armando Iannucci
www.economist.com/1843/2025/08...
"If the princess rings the police...you're dead. I mean literally". Superb long read on the whistleblower who exposed epic British-Saudi corruption. Someone should make into a film www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
this such a moving story. in this week's print edition
www.economist.com/1843/2026/02...
The stablecoin is fuelling a global shadow economy. And it’s never been more respectable
How Brazil’s ex-president and his cronies tried to take down democracy
www.economist.com
The long read: When Ian Foxley found evidence of corruption while working at a British company in Riyadh, he alerted the MoD. He didn’t know he’d stumbled upon one of its most closely guarded secrets
John F. Kennedy: The Soviet plan to encircle West Berlin with a giant concrete wall guarded by men with guns, dogs and searchlights is unfunded, unworkable and falling apart.
