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LIFESTYLE
GoVolta €10 Amsterdam-Berlin Route: Promising Start, Limited Scale
Cheap tickets and glossy promises suggest Europe's trains can finally take on planes, yet the realities of infrastructure, price and time tell a more complicated story.
EUROPE
Politics of Voting at 16: Labour’s Electoral Strategy
The government's plan to lower the voting age appears to be a masterstroke of self-interest.
EUROPE
Gen Z Activated: The Power of the Youth
Gen Z reshapes politics with TikTok activism, climate strikes, and digital protests by disrupting power through tech, not tradition.
PODCASTS
Journalism in the Gulf: Getting Started and Storytelling
Former Khaleej Times Editor-in-Chief and World Affairs Commentator at Al-Arabiya, Michael Jabri-Pickett, discusses why local Gulf stories matter, breaking into journalism, and the power of persistence.
Popular
Ageing Societies Slow Science’s Edge
Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.
Strategic Autonomy: How the UAE Chose to Self-Arm
Under real Iranian missile fire, the UAE learned that state security cannot be outsourced, and it has kicked off the Gulf's most ambitious arms build-up.
Idlib to Bamako: The Real Differences in Jihadist Power
Africa’s jihadist groups are gaining territory and pressure, but they still lack the cohesion, legitimacy, and state collapse that made HTS’s seizure of Damascus possible.
British Safety Laws: Chat Control to Crowd Control
Britain's child safety legislation is quietly turning into a tool against digitally-triggered communal violence, with big implications for privacy and power.
France’s Trust Crisis Moves Upward
Three stories in a single week, a murdered child, a pop icon charged with rape, and a former mayor appealing his blackmail conviction, are not the same scandal but they are feeding the same mood in France.
