Oligopoly is showing itself to be the economic and political challenge of our time

Why do both sexes exaggerate the man’s salary if he is not the higher earner?

Top jobs are difficult but the Peter principle was right: the wrong people are in them

‘Living alone and in a family are both unsatisfactory, so the trick is to mix them up’

Does the way you dress say something about the rigour that you bring to your work?

Former US policymakers say their counterparts did not do enough to stop the rot

Some European flexible thinking is needed for a compromise and to avert a crisis

We need solutions to the crisis in adult social care in the UK

‘Those with doubts about Brexit are routinely chastised for their negativity, their lack of confidence or faith in Britain’

Tory hardliners fail to grasp that the EU would set the terms of a no-deal rupture

An article in Die Zeit ruffles feathers among liberals and hardliners alike

Important changes are taking place in the region that confound the ‘destiny instinct’

American voters are with him on many subjects, but they are not anti-western

Nothing eats cash like a weapons programme and Europe is the least efficient buyer

The US president is hostile to the core values the country used to stand for

The singer embodies reinvention, while acknowledging how much he owes to others

Few tasks are more important than planning for the replacement of a chief executive

The delayed project is a microcosm of the charges levelled against President Erdogan

The drugs sector receives funding out of all proportion to the results it delivers

The value of a settled cabinet is obvious, especially in critical areas like housing

The US president’s worldview puts economics ahead of ideals and values