Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we ask the winner of this year’s International Booker Prize what her novel reveals about Taiwan today
Hugo Gye, our Britain political correspondent, on the absurdity of Palestine Action
The ancient art of the parliamentary sketch is thriving in the digital era
Noah Sneider, our East Asia bureau chief, asks what Russia hopes to gain by arresting a Japanese journalist
Also on the daily podcast: white farmers go back to the land in Zimbabwe and the legalese surrounding an AI extinction
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
This is his annus horribilis
The future of innovation may be research outside universities
Japan wants its pension fund and households to buy more government debt
Mortgage lock-in is preventing nearly 1m property sales a year
The Kremlin is betting it can sway public opinion on the continent
Satellite communications will underwrite future warfare, writes Alex Turner, our defence editor