About
How markets and wars dictate society.
Westline is The Thursday Times’ lens on Western power.
It follows the decisions made in Washington, London and Brussels, and the people and policies shaping the transatlantic world, to the places they land: the markets, the wars and the democracies that live with them.
The desks
- Washington
- The White House, Congress, the courts and the parties: American power, and what it does to everyone else.
- London
- Westminster, Whitehall and the City: Britain’s government, its money and its migration.
- Brussels
- The Commission, the Council and the capitals: Europe’s rules and Europe’s wars.
- Markets
- Rates, oil, debt and trade: the numbers that decide what governments can do.
- War
- Ukraine, the Gulf, the arms trade and the alliances: where Western power is spent.