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Politics
Aug 12, 2026
Jorge G. Castañeda
and Carlos Ominami
The resurgence of guerrilla warfare in Ukraine and Iran has underscored the potential benefits of asymmetric action in today’s increasingly multipolar world. Latin America, in particular, should consider how to…
Statistical Notice Background The Bank of England would like to remind firms that the updated Bank of England Statistics Taxonomy v1.3.1 is due for LIVE submissions relating to end-May data, due from mid-June 2026. This update follows the release of the public working draft and subsequent feedback received from firms. The updated taxonomy includes technical…
Photo by Brett Hondow, Pixabay The US federal government’s Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has asked agencies to submit “high-impact and shovel-ready” project proposals for improving the use of technology in permitting and planning decisions, and in AI adoption. The TMF – a funding initiative created in 2017 by the General Services Administration (GSA) to modernise…
Letter Connor Axiotes is right to draw attention to the seriousness of frontier AI and its potential impact on the risk of cyber attacks (‘Humanity is no longer in control of its most awesome creation since the atom bomb’). But his assertion about the Bank of England’s cyber defences being unsophisticated is totally wrong, unfounded…
Presented by: Daniel Bunn This year, a wave of new company tax disclosures is coming in response to increased transparency requirements from US accounting standards, the European Union, and Australia. Because the data will be messy and poorly suited for drawing strong conclusions, the data the new rules require companies to produce can easily be…