Mike Bird Thanks Mike. Much credit due to Tom Easton too for his intrepid Chennai reporting

Big day in the UK. Many said it couldn't happen because of ingrained prejudice, but I never stopped believing that Brits are, at heart, a tolerant people.

Worth noting that on a cumulative basis it's going to be a while a little while until this scheme poses a net loss to the Treasury.

At some point this is all going to become so hyperrealistic that we might even have to deal with the fact that big portion of higher education as an industry is a credential-driven money pit for the participants. But not today!

On the road from Chennai to Bengaluru, vast new electronics factories are working for a common client. It is known locally as 'the fruit company'

Great Tom Wainwright piece on the beginning of the end of Apple's love affair with Chinese manufacturing.
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All 5'7 in the traditional sense that several of them are 5'5

Some pundits say if central banks “got ahead of the curve” by raising rates last year, the world would not be struggling with high inflation today. The experience of places that tightened early and aggressively casts doubt on that.
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This is a perfectly good sentiment. But neither the people who've made their careers out of reporting news this way, nor the people who brief them, know how to do it any other way.

I'm old enough to remember when China was going to open up after the Winter Olympics

The ever vigilant SCMP editorial team, doing the hard analytical miles for us.

Jacobin making a bold pitch to write one of The Economist's leaders this week

I can't really understand what this quote has to do with the horrible news about Salman Rushdie's injuries

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This was aired in December 1994 and it's the last time it would have made sense

On our “Money Talks” podcast, hosts @birdyword, @soumayakeynes and Alice Fulwood ask Matt Steinglass 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 Боже милий, знову лихо and Christian Odendahl about the current state of Ukraine’s economy and what reconstruction could look like econ.st/3eMBmTS

Symbol of wealth - edible

Brilliant moment for the related article algorithm.

Early drama: Hu Jintao seen being led out soon after reporters are led into the main hall