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On the campaign trail, Joe Biden quoted the following words of his favourite poet, Seamus Heaney: “Hope for a great sea change / on the far side of revenge.” As the US president-elect finally takes the oath of office in Washington DC, the rest of the world desperately needs him to effect a sea change. If his first task is to reunite a divided America, his second is to end American isolationism: to show Americans that they need the world, and...

The triple crises of Covid, the economy and the climate can only be solved globally. Thankfully, this plays to his strengths, says Gordon Brown

From fictional debuts to untold histories, Martin Chilton rounds up the forthcoming titles to keep you reading throughout the year. Julian Barnes wrote: "Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory." Although he was joking about Gustave Flaubert's carnal desires, Barnes could easily have been describing the sweet sense of excitement felt by book lovers contemplating new pages on the horizon. The new year will bring novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sebastian Faulks, Lisa Taddeo, Stephen King and Jonathan Franzen; memoirs from Brian Cox and David Sedaris; and non-fiction releases from G...

Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably damaging the environment. The closer we get to irreversible climate change, the harder that will become. Doughnut economics, a concept principally developed by UK economist Kate Raworth, provides an intuitive way of thinking about it. The ideas outlined in her book, subtitled Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, are increasingly being used around the ...

Doughnut economics may have the answer to the dilemma between environment and economic growth WedWednesday 30 updated FriFriday 1 The concept of doughnut economics was principally developed by UK economist Kate Raworth. ( Print text only Before the recession we were on a collision course with environmental disaster. The recovery provides a rare opportunity to do things differently; to rebuild a better economy that can support living standards without irretrievably damaging the environment. The closer we get to irreversible climate change, the harder that will become.Loading Doughnut economics...