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5800 - The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk

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5800 - The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk

Sat, 12 Sep 2026
5799 - Out-numbered: AI’s contentious maths milestone

Fri, 11 Sep 2026
5798 - Working through it: the AI jobs boom dawns

Thu, 10 Sep 2026
5797 - TRAILER: Shire folk

Thu, 10 Sep 2026
5796 - Chainsaw sputtering: Milei’s experiment falters

Wed, 09 Sep 2026
5795 - School of shock: teenagers get dimmer

Tue, 08 Sep 2026
5794 - All right on the night: AfD’s victory

Mon, 07 Sep 2026
5793 - Bargaining chips: Nvidia is the bank of AI

Fri, 04 Sep 2026
5792 - Ire and ICE: the toll of America’s deportations

Thu, 03 Sep 2026
5791 - Right in front: AfD could win German state

Wed, 02 Sep 2026
5790 - After the flood: Nepal’s ongoing rescue

Tue, 01 Sep 2026
5789 - Stars in their AIs: tech is changing Hollywood

Mon, 31 Aug 2026
5788 - Bots on the ground: China leads humanoid race

Fri, 28 Aug 2026
5787 - Big shot: does a cancer vaccine work?

Thu, 27 Aug 2026
5786 - Slip the surly bonds? Scott Bessent goes on a yield trip

Wed, 26 Aug 2026
5785 - An interview with Yuval Noah Harari

Thu, 20 Aug 2026
5784 - Even-more-maximum pressure: sanctions on Iran

Tue, 25 Aug 2026
5783 - Elbows up, again: a US-Canada trade flare-up

Mon, 24 Aug 2026
5782 - I, robot? AI and consciousness

Fri, 21 Aug 2026
5781 - Bombs and bombshells: Zelensky under pressure

Thu, 20 Aug 2026
5780 - Wake-up haul: an Ozempic moment for the brain

Wed, 19 Aug 2026
5779 - Settler bet: a West Bank flashpoint

Tue, 18 Aug 2026
5778 - It’s not easy being Green: Zack Polanski

Mon, 17 Aug 2026
5777 - Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits

Fri, 14 Aug 2026
5776 - Caracas under pressure: democracy in Venezuela

Thu, 13 Aug 2026
5775 - Pump and circumstance: is China the new OPEC?

Wed, 12 Aug 2026
5774 - Spring, then fall: a weakened Muslim Brotherhood

Tue, 11 Aug 2026
5773 - Under strAIn: breaking the British state

Mon, 10 Aug 2026
5772 - Outsider chance: ending Sudan’s proxy war

Fri, 07 Aug 2026
5771 - Socialist mobility: a telling Michigan vote

Thu, 06 Aug 2026
5770 - Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures

Wed, 05 Aug 2026
5769 - In arms’ way: Gaza-deal sticking points

Tue, 04 Aug 2026
5768 - Taken littorally: Spain’s sudden crisis in Ceuta

Mon, 03 Aug 2026
5767 - Omission accomplished: why the Iran-war cycle spins on

Fri, 31 Jul 2026
5766 - Working memory: the surprising decline of dementia

Thu, 30 Jul 2026
5765 - An interview with Elon Musk

Thu, 23 Jul 2026
5764 - Brave New whirl: Turkey’s opposition overhaul

Wed, 29 Jul 2026
5763 - Burning questions: a more fire-prone world

Tue, 28 Jul 2026
5762 - Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests

Mon, 27 Jul 2026
5761 - The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future

Fri, 24 Jul 2026
5760 - For bucks’ sake: the rise of self-made billionaires

Thu, 23 Jul 2026
5759 - Kyiv brawl: Ukraine’s top general fired

Wed, 22 Jul 2026
5758 - Hard cedar: Lebanon seeks Trump’s help

Tue, 21 Jul 2026
5757 - A firm Andy: what are new British PM’s plans?

Mon, 20 Jul 2026
5756 - You’ve come a long way, Bibi: Israel’s crucial election

Fri, 17 Jul 2026
5755 - In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface

Thu, 16 Jul 2026
5754 - Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles

Wed, 15 Jul 2026
5753 - The case of the missing totem: Aung San Suu Kyi

Tue, 14 Jul 2026
5752 - A hawk who flew on political winds: Lindsey Graham

Mon, 13 Jul 2026
5751 - Putin’s options: an oligarch speaks out

Fri, 10 Jul 2026

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