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Tom Sasse

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South Asia bureau chief at The Economist

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
www.economist.com/britain/2026... Great column by @matthewholehouse.bsky.social on Reform's weird coalition
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The tarts and vicars party
Nigel Farage leads a curious coalition of traditionalists and libertines
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Spot on from the Economist. What a second week of war will bring economist.com/middle-east-...
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Part of the issue is a lack of growth. A recent study showed that cohorts who experience more GDP growth in their lifetimes are more likely to trust the government and have positive perceptions of their living standards. academic.oup.com/qje/advance-... In Britain, such voters are dying out
Chart showing lifetime average GDP growth for Brits by year of birth. 20-year-old Brits have experienced an average of 1.4% growth, compared with 2.4% for 75-year-olds
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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is so beautifully put. I'd recommend reading the whole thing. (I'm assuming this is @bryce.lol's prose in the latest Alphaville Substack post.)
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Great Janan www.ft.com/content/9247...
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The Hillsborough law is a noble, popular and bold idea: to make it a crime for the state to lie. The problem is it may make for a less honest and open state. My note this week on good intentions and unintended consequences www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Britain’s “Hillsborough law”, pledging candour, is avoiding it
A bill to jail dishonest bureaucrats may result in a less honest state
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Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist. Please help spread the word. www.economist.com/science-and-...
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The Economist’s science and technology internship
We invite applications for the 2026 Richard Casement internship
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Ready, steady, unionise! Trade unions have high hopes for the new Employment Rights Act. The most overlooked provisions - on union recruitment, recognition and industrial action - are probably the most important. But where they lead, no one knows economist.com/britain/2026...
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
When Narendra Modi became Indian prime minister, Obama was president, Cameron was PM and Merkel was chancellor. Twelve years later, Modi enjoys a 70% approval rating is eyeing taking the title of India's longest-serving PM from Nehru. @tomsasse.bsky.social on why Modi is as dominant as ever
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The remarkable recovery of Narendra Modi
Despite an electoral reverse in 2024, the prime minister now seems as dominant as ever
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Is it better to rent or buy?
Much depends on long-term interest rates
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Starmer, Farage, Badenoch et al share a strange consensus: that state capacity is broken, and the answer is a stronger prime minister in a faster, more centralised system - pulling levers like the Fat Controller and grabbing power back from agencies. Is it smart? www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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State capacity is the issue of the age
The Labour Party and its rivals agree on much about what is wrong with government
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist
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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office
Aside from some eye-catching gestures, Reform councils have focused on potholes and budget holes
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Martin Parr transformed photojournalism economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
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Martin Parr transformed photojournalism
Six images captured by one of Britain’s best photographers
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI: www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI
There are big benefits if they can overcome the obstacles
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Brace yourself, but it appears that when it comes to emigration, the Mail and the Telegraph may be full of ***t www.economist.com/britain/2025... From The Economist
The news that net migration to Britain is plummeting should have been met with cheers from across the political spectrum. But something in the statistics released on November 27th bothered commentators: the number of British citizens emigrating appears to have rocketed in recent years. The Times and Telegraph called it an “exodus”. The Daily Mail called it a “brain drain from Starmer’s socialist chaos”. They could not be more wrong.The Office for National Statistics (ons) confirmed that total net migration—inflows less outflows—was just 204,000 in the year to June, the lowest level since March 2021. That overall figure is composed of three types of people: Europeans, non-Europeans and British citizens. Look at just the last group in isolation and the net outflow of British citizens has risen from 82,000 to 109,000 over the past six years, a 33% increase.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies www.economist.com/finance-and-... Really thoughtful, evenhanded analysis from The Economist, that suggests to me the transition will be more jagged than optimists expect
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Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
A robotaxi boom is coming. The impacts might be broader than you expect
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
British voters would like politics to go away
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The Economist @economist.com · 27/11/2025
Canada and France both have similarities with Britain. But the place that comes closest according to our measures may seem a surprising one
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Which country is most similar to Britain?
Clue: none of the ones its politicians obsess over
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Some personal news: I will be moving to Delhi in January to be the Economist's South Asia bureau chief. I am obviously hugely excited about this. Welcome all recommendations and tips.
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force by @tomsasse.bsky.social www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Socialist employment restrictions will be swept away
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India economist.com/finance-and-...
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Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India
Remittances may fall, but opportunities are opening up
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Do read this on the budget, by our economics editor, Henry Curr. (Much better than the Kemi version): www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs
Without ambitious reform, the country will not thrive
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This really is v good. on.ft.com/47YTi6P How to get the UK out of its economic hole
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How to get the UK out of its economic hole
Reeves’ challenge is to remedy the disaster that Brexit has been for the country
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Most of the criticisms of Britain's Online Safety Act seem to have been wrong: www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet
The effects of a new law have been less dramatic than critics warned
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington are conspiring in one of American capitalism’s great money-making eras. CEOs are embracing risky financial strategies that involve jaw-dropping feats of paper engineering—and offer clues as to the nature of the coming crash www.economist.com/business/202...
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The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance
A frenzy of financial innovation has ensnared America Inc. What could go wrong?
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This is good, on the bus fare cap and Labour's half-hearted devolution www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Labour is reluctant to get off the bus
A national bus-fare cap exposes the government’s fondness of central control
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A new disruptive transport technology is rapidly changing cities across the rich world. It is not the self-driving electric car, but the humble bicycle, writes @dlknowles.bsky.social www.economist.com/internationa...
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One of the Conservative party's contributions to our country has been keeping people who think you can measure integration through skin colour out of office - what next, are they only going to be lukewarm on the property-owning democracy?
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Thank the Tories for keeping Robert Jenrick out of high office
Shadow justice secretary’s comment about not seeing a ‘white face’ shows he does not understand integration
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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
There are good reasons to think the number of small boat crossings may fall in the next couple of years - and it will have little to do with whatever has been announced at party conferences Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration economist.com/internationa...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/09/2025
London exclusive: Competition between big money e-bike operators has hit the point where Hackney residents will now get flat fare £1.75 journeys within the borough, with Lime and Voi winning a contract that predicts *up to £93m* in revenue from one borough. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-bike-...
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E-bike fares capped at £1.75 in Hackney — could the rest of London be next?
Exclusive: Lime and Voi win the battle for control of the £93m Hackney rental e-bike market, amid a fierce London-wide battle between deep-pocketed companies vying for control of a booming industry
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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The perverse consequence of America’s $100,000 visa fees
Offshoring to India and other countries could accelerate
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"the stronger the vision of Palestinian statehood grows on the outside, the more it fades within" - www.economist.com/middle-east-...
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Palestine is unrecognisable on the ground
The UN stands up a state that is disappearing from view
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Non-zero chance that Your Party never polls above Change UK
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s attempts to stop asylum-seekers have failed so far
A new scheme might change that
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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What Elon Musk gets wrong about Europe’s hard right
He imagines a continental revolt against Islam and elites
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wrote about why it will be hard for the government to turn things around when food prices keep going up: www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Britain’s rising food prices are a political headache
Voters hate inflation. They notice it most at the supermarket
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"The insinuation of those who see population decline as a disaster is that human societies cannot flourish without expanding. The evidence for that is flimsy" www.economist.com/briefing/202...
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A contracting population need not be a catastrophe
The economics of a shrinking world
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The Economist @economist.com · 17/09/2025
Join The Economist’s Foreign Department
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The Economist is hiring an Asia correspondent
Join The Economist’s Foreign Department
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My column in tomorrow's paper:
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Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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America’s choice after the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence could become routine. But it doesn’t have to
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The Economist @economist.com · 11/09/2025
Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps
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The new battle for Britain
Once elections were fought between left and right. Now the main fight is within these camps
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
www.economist.com/science-and-... come work with me
economist.com
The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent
We’re looking for a writer to join us in London for 12 months
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 02/09/2025
Impressive enlargement of his vote.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
keyless ignition is one of the all time worst technological trade-offs ever
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Superb piece on the rapidly changing British countryside. economist.com/britain/2025... from The Economist
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Humiliation, vindication—and a giant test for India
Trump has triggered a trade and defence crisis: how should Modi respond?
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"look beyond AI and much of the economy appears sluggish. Real consumption has flatlined since December. Jobs growth is weak. Housebuilding has slumped, as has business investment in non-ai parts of the economy" www.economist.com/finance-and-... From The Economist
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How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Beware the data-centre takeover
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Wrote about the deficit-populism doom loop. Imagine you are the finance minister of a European country. You lie awake at night worrying about bondholders. Your colleagues fret about the electoral success of the hard right. What are your options? www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind
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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I have 3 pieces in this week's magazine looking at the global criminal business behind the rise in car and phone theft 1. On the new geography of stolen goods -- why Britain has become world leader & why the model is likely to spread www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The new geography of stolen goods
Cars, phones, tractors: how high-end products are increasingly stolen to serve distant markets
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