Brazil alone increased soya acreage by 20 million hectares between 2005 and 2020, an area one and a half the size of England.

Carney isn’t just positioning the country for the next election cycle; he is reshaping Canada’s place in the world for ...

This diary is a weather report primarily’, she writes in 1973. ‘The weather outside. It never alludes to the weather in us.’ At the risk of sounding ungrateful, the lavish production of the book – ...

There they all are, gathered around the table of the CNBC studio. The giants, the big names who really matter – the bosses. Breaking news, live coverage, news ticker along the bottom of the screen. An ...

Prospective biographers of Victor Serge begin at a disadvantage. Memoirs of a Revolutionary (1951) is one of the great autobiographies of the last century, vividly recounting the twists and turns – ...

What does it mean to say we are in a ‘polycrisis’? Under an increasingly undemocratic capitalism, the countries of the rich world all confront a similar bundle of crises that have sprung up more or ...

Writing in 2005 on the riots that swept France’s cities that autumn, Jean Baudrillard remarked that ‘all the excluded, the disaffiliated, whether from the banlieues, immigrants or “native-born”, at ...

When you spoke to NLR earlier this year, Iran had just emerged from the repression of the January protests. How do you see the domestic situation after six months of war? How close is the country to ...

The AI investment boom – whether or not it is, as I tend to believe, a bubble – is a vivid demonstration of how misleading it is to characterize capitalism as a ‘market economy’. The system’s ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that in the near future, the Ukrainian defences that have held the Russian ...