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Strong medicine for a sick economy

Listening attentively for 52 minutes to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas' diagnosis of Thailand's deep economic malaise, one could easily have suffered a heart seizure. Fortunately, he used the analogy of a patient with cancer who must determine what treatments are required to cure the disease in…

Bangkok Post · Jul 6

Collaboration key to escaping competitiveness trap

Throughout the developed world, you hear the same anxious story. From Brussels to Washington, political and business leaders warn that our economies have grown uncompetitive because wages are too high, and regulation too burdensome. Make labour cheaper and deregulate, we are told, and private investment will abound.

Bangkok Post · Jul 6

US, Thai govts should choose life

Two developments on opposite sides of the world, in Thailand and the United States, underscore a troubling reality: some governments continue to embrace the death penalty regardless of the global movement to abolish state-sanctioned killings.

Bangkok Post · Jul 6

Waking up to the good news of England’s win was strange and unfathomable. Let’s embrace it while we can

Years of unremitting disasters have convinced me not to go to sleep with hope in your heart. But that footballing victory took me back to more innocent times, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress

These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it

The Guardian - US · Jul 6

He may be the king, but is Charles also a bit of a traitor? Dear reader, you decide

Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me? asks vicar and comedian Ravi Holy

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

Trump is a danger to US democracy. But the resistance is working

The president has made dangerous inroads in his push toward autocracy. Yet the prospects for his success are dimming

The Guardian - US · Jul 6

I’m having a tradwife summer – but I’d rather be a tradhusband

I love gardening, hate cooking. After five years learning how to grow fruit and veg, I’m now stuck with, well, a load of fruit and veg. Can I get my own tradwife to make them edible?

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

The new Isa rules melt my brain: but that’s not even the worst thing about these changes for first-time buyers

Quite aside from all the convolutions, it’s clear the government is ignorant of the reality for young people like me hoping to get on the property ladder, says Guardian Opinion assistant editor Jason Okundaye

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6

The EU that the UK left no longer exists

Andy Burnham’s rise has stoked talk of the terms for a future British return – but this is the wrong question, says political risk analyst Mujtaba Rahman

The Guardian - UK · Jul 6