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Read the special report on renewables in China today. It is excellent and comprehensive. One thing I love about your newspaper is how articles even on otherwise "drab" subjects are so wonderfully written.

“For Kant, great poems take a concept – it could be a transcendent concept like ‘eternity’ or ‘God’ or an interesting, normal concept like ‘envy’ – and drag it to a place halfway between pure reason and experience, where concepts fall apart but the imagination itself turns into a form of reason.”

Franco’s death anniversary reminds me of this 1937 poem “I Explain a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda. It is one of my favourite poems and one of the great ones on the tragedies of war and the role of poetry in the time of war.
allpoetry.com/i-explain-a-...

Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place But new problems risk undermining its success

Great read on Spain fifty years after the fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s death— and its subsequent embrace of democracy.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

What explains India’s peculiar stability? In a tricky neighbourhood the country remains calm

Across South Asia governments are being toppled by gen Z protestors and negotiating bailouts with the IMF.

But not India. What gives?

economist.com/finance-and-...

As a subscriber, looking forward to reading the whole report this weekend, Mr. Morton. Economist's special reports and Tech quarterlies are always great reads.

I am sorry but that is not rumours. To think that Trump can't be that petty to jeopardise his own country's economy to push against any personal slight is giving him too much credit. Russian oil is perhaps the main reason, but not the only one.

lol.

FIFA awarding a "peace prize" to Trump would be so absolutely on-brand, a truly genius innovation.

Very good column, but a small disagreement. Trump's massive tariffs on India were not only due to import of Russian oil (China also does so). It is also because Trump does not like it that India has rebuffed his lead on the India-Pak ceasefire and refuses to give him credit for it.

I am currently reading your Ramayana book, and I am enjoying it very much. Can't believe you show such deep insights into my country India of the 90s at such a young age.

For the first time in about 70 years, net immigration to America could be zero. Beneath the noise of tariff and budget fights, migration may well be the biggest economic story of 2025.

My latest for @economist.com: Welcome to Zero Migration America

Link: www.economist.com/finance-and...

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Great. Also, I have purchased your book "Money in One Lesson". It looks good. Will read it soon after my current reading line-up is completed.

Considering your previous India pieces, I thought you had already taken over as India/Mumbai correspondent. Anyway, good luck. Will look forward to your pieces.

Good one.

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Brilliant
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What the hell. Lucky you.

Spotify is adding DMs A new way to bug friends with song recsommendations.

spotify launches a new "spam" feature www.theverge.com/news/765771/...

Not reading or writing would be unthinkable The evidence is clear: those who don’t read or who outsource their essays to AI lose the facility for complex thought

@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Hi James. I broadly agree with this column. But I disagree with the blanket contention that oral cultures "tend not to produce masterpieces of analytic philosophy." Ancient India, a largely oral society, produced great and very influential works of analytic philosophy.

Please post a pic of you from Lord's tomorrow, Duncan, when India win the match. :)

Likely the best to ever come out of India.

Lmao. 😀

Fine column, Gavin. Keep it up. Looking forward to much more in-depth India stories from you, apart from the columns, of course.

Unfortunately for us, there is no Bumrah this time. So, yes, they do have good chances to secure their tons. Let's see. :)

As an Indian, missed your cricket posting today, Duncan. I wonder if the Brits are faring well today. ;)

Great ones. The first one particularly is a design masterclass.

Should cities run their own supermarkets? New York’s mayoral frontrunner thinks they should

In a wild twist, The Economist disapproves of state-run grocery stores, as Zohran Mamdani proposes. I walk through why:
www.economist.com/united-stat...

Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.

BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.

Congrats. Looking at some of your recent writings about India, I thought it was coming. I hope you would be more nuanced & balanced when it comes to India than the American papers. Also, please occasionally go to Twitter to access India’s econ discussions as they haven’t switched to Bluesky yet.

Twitter is a hellhole, but just by looking at the replies of your post endorsing Vance’s right to be on Bluesky, I can say that this place is pretty terrible, constricting too. I would go so far as so say that for all of Twitter’s flaws, it has more ideological diversity than Bluesky.