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Our list this week uncovers truths about pretenders and Pompeii

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, Britain’s new prime minister and chancellor have a mountain to climb

Also on the daily podcast: Can children be criminals and conservationist Mona Khalil

His more than 2,500 covers cleverly captured, mocked and ridiculed the world

You will get data, but perhaps not knowledge

Limestone villages and babbling brooks offer an escape from the modern world

The Roman empire shaped the religion in all sorts of crucial ways, a new book argues

Don’t follow your dreams. Try this instead

Blame supply-chain snags, procurement obstacles and the rise of drone warfare

Manufacturers are earning big bucks as a result

Heatwaves are making access to AC a political problem around the world

Shantou was once at the forefront of reforms. Now it is a backwater

It continues, rebranded, under Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos

Cracks appear in the court of President Prabowo

Markets and the Diet are mounting resistance

Electric vehicles should save both drivers and governments money

It’s cheap, easy and needs no mobile data

Could a new era of big infrastructure developments accelerate growth?

They want to sell their technology to the world

…while practising its oldest form

Riches sit under a rare vestige of the wild Midwest

All the continent’s a stage

La Roja won the World Cup through teamwork and grit

But there are still few signs of a serious pivot to Asia

Just when Friedrich Merz’s government was getting its act together

Strikes on e-commerce hubs are a sign that Ukraine’s strategy against Russia is shifting

British conservatism is weaker than you think

More wealth to inherit means more ugly fights

It is learning how to improve its drones, nuclear subs and air defence

Also this week, housing, exercise, Microsoft’s games, the two Cambridges, Heinz ketchup

With better government, it could become a business hub once again

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