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Conflicts, rising costs and Chinese competition are testing Germany's economic model like never before. Can new growth sectors create jobs and ease voters' economic fears, thereby helping contain the far-right AfD?
Conflicts, rising costs and Chinese competition are testing Germany's economic model like never before. Can new growth sectors create jobs and ease voters' economic fears, thereby helping contain the far-right AfD?
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<p>Despite distraction and distortion, voters know what issues will be informing their votes in this election</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/sign-up-to-the-stakes-2026-your-weekly-guide-to-the-us-midterms"><strong>This was originally published in The Stakes 2026, a newsletter about the midterm elections. Sign up to get it in your inbox</strong></a></p></li></ul><p>Elections too often get pigeonholed. The hot take, or simplistic analysis, would have it that just one issue – often the issue the source so happens to be most animated about – will decide the entire result.</p><p>Tens of millions of Americans will go to the polls next month. Will they be galvanized by affordability? Maybe it’s Iran. Or healthcare? Taxes, perhaps. Or crime.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/midterm-elections-trump-changes-subject">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’, as Ofcom also admits little change in severity of harm to children encountering unsafe content</p><p>Landmark online safety measures have failed to limit the proportion of children suffering harm from social media, the UK’s online regulator has admitted, in an assessment branded “staggering” by campaigners.</p><p>The proportion of children being fed unsafe content that often left them frightened, confused and upset, was almost unchanged, according to an Ofcom review of the first nine months of supposedly strict requirements on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/23/uk-children-just-as-likely-to-have-suffered-harm-on-social-media-despite-crackdown-ofcom-online-safety-act">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Prosecution says Robinson guilty of harassment of Daily Mail journalists because we do not live in a ‘vigilante world’ </p><p>Tommy Robinson is guilty of harassing two journalists because we do not live in a “vigilante world”, jurors have been told, as the prosecution sought to use the far-right activist’s words against him.</p><p>Robinson had posted a video in which he told Daily Mail journalists he would find them after they wrote about his alleged role influencing England’s 2024 riots. He told them he had obtained details of where they and their families lived and warned them to abide by “men’s rules”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/23/tommy-robinson-trial-harassment-vigilante-world">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Multinational ‘anti-war bloc’ uses Istanbul summit to call for a diplomatic solution to Middle East crisis</p><p>Foreign ministers at a summit of eight European and Middle Eastern countries have urged the US and Israel not to renews their attacks on Iran, warning a fresh outbreak of fighting would spread conflict and push oil prices even higher.</p><p>The development of a new multinational “anti-war bloc” represents a challenge to the increasingly open plans by the US and Israel to relaunch strikes on Iran while talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme remain deadlocked.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/23/european-middle-eastern-ministers-summit-iran-us-israel">Continue reading...</a>