https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:55:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/#respond Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:55:39 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=142305

A US spytech firm deeply embedded in the most sensitive areas of the British state is being scrutinised as part of the fallout from the latest tranche of documents related … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-is-palantir-how-a-us-spytech-firm-penetrated-the-british-state/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:51:34 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141660

Deprived high streets in England are populated by 70% more vape shops, bookmakers, takeaways and off-licences than in wealthier areas, a new study has found. Poorer areas also have far … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/#respond Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:50:59 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=141661

Over many decades, vast sums of money for innovation in farming including seeds, crop applications and new technologies has come from those large enterprises and organisations that can extract value … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/lack-of-agroecological-funding-could-be-costing-us-our-future/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/#respond Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:56:15 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=140881

Much attention has focused on the famous names implicated in the sex trafficking network surrounding Epstein. But perhaps less has been paid to the very system that – legally and … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-devils-butler-how-jeffrey-epstein-used-london-to-hide-in-plain-sight/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-will-weight-loss-jabs-change-the-food-industry/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-will-weight-loss-jabs-change-the-food-industry/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:38:47 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=139103

Consumers are surrounded by food that is highly conducive to weight gain. No one likes dieting and very few have lasting success. But now weight-loss injections are seen as gamechangers, … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/how-will-weight-loss-jabs-change-the-food-industry/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/#respond Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:41:19 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=138422

Taxpayers paid for a Ministry of Defence official to spend almost a year working for an elite investment bank that’s seeking to increase the role of private finance in military … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taxpayers-paid-to-send-mod-official-to-work-for-elite-bank-rothschild-co/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:32 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136499

Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-breadbasket-on-borrowed-time/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136424

Stewart Lansley argues that too much of the UK’s abundant wealth is the wrong kind. As the dust settles on Labour’s budget, it is worth recalling that Keir Starmer went … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-wealthy/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:29 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136434

Planting fields with a variety of strains of each plant makes for a resilient crop in the face of global warming. But global markets create other priorities? Nick Easen writes. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-growing-population/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/#respond Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:47:27 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=136439

Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/episodes-in-a-cereal/feed/ 0