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Europe wants to ramp up defence production but its factories ‘making machine guns by hand’
Europe wants to build more weapons, faster but decades of underinvestment and outdated factories stand in the way ...
Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
FREE TO READ] How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
From the pie chart’s inventor to Napoleonic casualties, how diagrams reveal hidden histories
A renowned cartographer, the Paris-born Rekacewicz is well aware of his medium’s capacity to transform narratives for good ...
Engine maker Safran says China is exempting aerospace parts from tariffs
French jet engine maker Safran said China had granted tariff exemptions for imports of some aerospace parts, even as it warned that the constantly shifting tariff landscape made it difficult to ...
Opinion
A Tory-Reform pact now would lock in Reform’s weakness
Nigel Farage lacks leverage needed to secure favourable terms but gains at the next election would shift balance of power ...
FTAV’s further reading
Trade wars; the US exodus; exorbitant privilege; a metaverse startup; San Francisco; sex work; long 1990s; and gang tattoos ...