New Africa/ShutterstockLuxury pet pampering packages at hotels, menus with dog-friendly roast dinners and £6,000 animal-friendly charter flights. Pet travel isn’t just a trend, it’s something of a transformation. This is the “pawprint economy” – and it’s booming.
’Tis the season ... for gift-buying stress. Photo by Ryan Miller/Invision/APAs a child, I loved being the center of attention. So it was a problem when my baby brother was born a day before my birthday. For years, I would beg my parents for a birthday gift “one day early.” My laid-back brother remembers thinking, “I don’t care about presents. Just give her mine!”
Shoppers were able to browse Shein's range in person at its first bricks-and-mortar space in Paris. Antonin Albert/ShutterstockEvery December, many shoppers plan to buy fewer things and choose more sustainable options. Yet as the month goes on, spending rises and fast fashion becomes hard to resist. Christmas has become a moment when good intentions collide with discounts and the emotional pull of seasonal fashion.
Posters at Southwark station in London 'advertise' fossil fuels – an example of clear and meaningful messaging. Badvertising, CC BY-NC-NDSince November 2025, commuters at Southwark tube station in London have been passing walls lined with vintage-style posters parodying oil and gas advertising, instead of ads promoting flights or energy companies.
The U.S. workweek hasn't always been 40 hours long, so maybe something else is possible. Gearstd/iStock via Getty Images PlusAbout 1 in 3 Americans make at least one New Year’s resolution, according to Pew Research.
shutterstock BongkarnGraphic/ShutterstockIt’s that time of year again, and retailers are pulling out all the stops to get us spending – from Black Friday to new year’s sales.
Image by pikisuperstar on Freepik, FALFor people living in the EU, the price of their next car, home renovation and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy that many have never even heard of.
Make American shipbuilding great again (Masga) may sound like an effort by the US to bolster its economic strength and project power internationally, but Masga is not an American policy. It is a South Korean initiative that emerged following trade talks with the US in June.
Vincent Gerbouin/PexelsMore of us than ever are trying to make environmentally responsible travel choices. Sustainable travel is now less niche and more mainstream, with 93% of travellers in one survey
saying they would consider sustainable choices.
Russia’s wartime economy is getting weaker as the war in Ukraine approaches its fourth anniversary, according to a recent report by PeaceRep, a research group led by the University of Edinburgh. The report, Against the Clock? Why Russia’s War Economy is Running Out of Time, finds that Russia is being forced to spend aggressively on the war, while its earning abilities have dropped significantly.
