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Receive free German politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest German politics news every morning. The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter These are anxious times in Germany. Two issues dominate the headlines: economic malaise, and the alarming surge in support for the

Receive free Geopolitics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Geopolitics news every morning. The writer is professor of Korean Studies at Kookmin University Last month, two strongmen met in the wilderness of Russia’s far east. The second summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un took place at

Receive free Conservative Party UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Conservative Party UK news every morning. Rishi Sunak has refused to commit to tax cuts before the next general election despite growing clamour from both his Cabinet and backbench MPs for giveaways. As Conservatives gathered in Manchester

Receive free Slovakia updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Slovakia news every morning. Anti-Ukraine former prime minister Robert Fico won Saturday’s elections in Slovakia, putting himself on track to try to form a coalition government that could undermine western efforts to stay united in helping Kyiv in its

When Dana Small, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, decided to investigate the impact of artificially sweetened drinks on the brain and gut, she made a startling discovery.  Participants in her study who were assigned drinks containing sucralose, a popular artificial sweetener, displayed no negative effects. But a cohort given the same drink with

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. A few weeks ago, I was sent a report by a policy institute called The Mindfulness Initiative, documenting the experiences of a group of British politicians who have undertaken mindfulness training over the

Planned new post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the EU will cost businesses an estimated £330mn a year in additional red tape charges, the government has admitted. The confirmation from Cabinet Office minister Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe in a letter to a Labour MP follows repeated warnings from the logistics and food

Receive free Nato updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Nato news every morning. Sweden must take further “concrete steps” against terrorism to clinch Ankara’s support for its Nato bid, Turkey’s vice-president said as the Turkish parliament prepares to take up the Nordic country’s accession request. Cevdet Yılmaz told

Receive free Carbon tax updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Carbon tax news every morning. Rishi Sunak’s weakening of UK climate targets has left British exporters facing hundreds of millions of pounds in EU carbon border taxes within the next decade — revenues that otherwise would have flowed

Georgia’s reluctance to freeze the assets of a former official accused by the US of being a Russian agent is further testing Tbilisi’s ties with the west. The US State Department earlier this month added Otar Partskhaladze, who briefly served as Georgia’s chief prosecutor, to its sanctions list, citing help he had allegedly received from

Receive free US politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US politics & policy news every morning. The House of Representatives on Saturday passed a last-minute compromise funding measure with bipartisan support, bringing Washington one step closer to averting a damaging shutdown of the US government.

Receive free Telegraph Media Group Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Telegraph Media Group Ltd news every morning. Germany’s Axel Springer has expressed interest in buying the Telegraph Media Group, becoming the latest in a series of international investors to line up to bid for the UK

Receive free Frasers Group updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Frasers Group news every morning. JPMorgan has taken Sports Direct to the High Court over a £5.4mn bill it alleges the retailer owes for leaving a vast UK site in a state of disrepair.  The sportswear chain, which

Receive free Conservative Party UK updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Conservative Party UK news every morning. Rishi Sunak arrives in Manchester for his party conference on Saturday facing pressure from Conservative MPs over taxes and questions over his apparent plan to axe the HS2 high speed rail

Receive free Inheritance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Inheritance news every morning. On top of indistinguishable cultures and politics, what else do Russia, Portugal, Mexico and Canada have in common? None imposes inheritance taxes. Joining their ranks is one idea that the UK government is supposedly mulling

In the playground on the western edge of Ichinono, a mother watches fussily over a group of children as steel-grey clouds pause between autumn downpours. Two children are on scooters. One is on a wooden swing. A fourth is pedalling off towards the woods on a pink bicycle. None of them are actually real. The

Rishi Sunak faces restless Conservative MPs as he heads to his first, and possibly, last annual conference as leader of a party that is anxious about the next general election and split over the country’s direction. The UK prime minister is said by allies to be feeling upbeat as he prepares for his debut leader’s

Receive free Northern Ireland updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Northern Ireland news every morning. New post-Brexit rules for trade between Britain and Northern Ireland begin to come into force this weekend, but for wholesaler Derek O’Reilly, they are already a headache. Under the rules, which take effect

Receive free Chinese economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese economy news every morning. China has started its longest holiday break of the year with officials predicting record tourist travel that they hope will help to lift an economy struggling to emerge from its post-pandemic doldrums. Economists

Receive free Life & Arts updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Last year, owing to strikes, it took an age to reach a bar where I take my occasional refreshment. Hours passed before I understood the sense of personal affront that I

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Health secretary Steve Barclay has raised tensions with striking senior doctors ahead of what is expected to be a stormy Conservative conference, accusing them of withholding vital cancer treatments in spite of being