Why are junior ‘magic circle’ lawyers making £150,000? Date Monday, May 20, 2024 - 10:00 PM Description Plus, Inter Milan’s owners face approaching debt deadline and the private credit backing Johnson & Johnson’s talc lawsuits
Why are political memoirs so mediocre? Date Friday, December 06, 2024 - 10:00 PM Description Most politicians are fundamentally unsuited to the painful and exposing reckoning that is required
Why are sales dragging in swanky Knightsbridge? Date Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 10:08 PM Description A lack of new-build luxury homes in the exclusive London area is causing wealthy buyers to opt for elsewhere or rent
Why are so many evangelical Christians in thrall to Trump? Image Date Friday, February 23, 2024 - 5:00 AM Description In ‘The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory’, journalist Tim Alberta explores the former president’s powerful, paradoxical hold over so many US believers
Why are some countries richer than others? Ask the Nobel economists Date Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 10:00 PM Description Their work explores how institutions created in the distant past can still shape countries in the present
Why are some jobs so ‘greedy’? Date Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 10:00 PM Description Economist Claudia Goldin has helped narrow the gender pay gap. But working practices are still an obstacle to progress
Why are the British so reluctant to invest? Date Thursday, October 03, 2024 - 10:00 PM Description Millions of people have five-figure sums sitting in cash, in spite of inflation’s corrosive effects
Why are the EU’s angry youth more keen on protesting than voting? Date Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 11:00 PM Description Also in this newsletter: Ukraine’s wish list to make EU sanctions more effective
Why are women still being cast off the glass cliff Date Saturday, March 02, 2024 - 10:00 PM Description Female workers are deemed more likely to rise to the top when the job is risky and less appealing to men
Why Argentina is back in love with the peso — for now Date Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 10:00 AM Description Despite Javier Milei’s pledge to dollarise the economy, the national currency is having a resurgence