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Receive free EU enlargement updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest EU enlargement news every morning. “The international order is changing [and] the EU must change with it.” The words of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez when Spain took over the EU’s rotating presidency this summer sum up Europe’s new

Receive free English devolution updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest English devolution news every morning. English devolution is now at a “coming of age moment”, one of the country’s most high profile mayors has said ahead of the UK’s political conference season. Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham was

Receive free UK social care updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK social care news every morning. Social care funding in England will have to rise by more than £8bn over the next 10 years simply to keep pace with demand, and grow at more than double the

Receive free Sovereign bonds updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Sovereign bonds news every morning. Hedge funds have been rushing to unwind bets against Britain’s £2.5tn government bond market as investors become increasingly convinced that the Bank of England is nearing the end of its rate rising campaign.

Receive free Private equity updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Private equity news every morning. Some of the world’s largest private equity firms are accelerating a pivot away from mega buyouts and into businesses such as private credit as higher interest rates force them to tear up their

Receive free Global Economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global Economy news every morning. As evidence mounts that global economic activity is slowing, economists, financial markets and most central banks have become convinced that no further interest rate rises will be needed. This week policymakers in the

Receive free Media updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Media news every morning. Two main schools of thought seem to have led the responses to the shocking allegations of rape and sexual assault that have been made against comedian and YouTuber Russell Brand over the past week or

Receive free OSCE updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest OSCE news every morning. The chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has vowed not to let the world’s largest security body “collapse” as vetoes by Russia in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine leave

Receive free THG PLC updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest THG PLC news every morning. A sale of a business park owned by THG boss Matthew Moulding, which also houses the ecommerce group’s headquarters, has fallen through.  The ecommerce group, which runs websites Lookfantastic and Myprotein, is a

Receive free Chinese society updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese society news every morning. Tens of thousands of Chinese college freshmen began their English language classes this month with an in-depth study of “Never Forget Why You Started”, an article in which President Xi Jinping describes his

Receive free Media updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Media news every morning. British newspaper groups have attacked Meta’s decision to scrap the Facebook News service and axe funding for local journalism in a hard-hitting letter warning about the move’s impact on democracy and society. In a letter

Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. US president Joe Biden has decided to send American long-range missiles known as ATACMS to Ukraine after months of deliberations over whether to provide Kyiv with the munitions, according to people

Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak this week announced an overhaul of the policies designed to help the UK meet its legally binding target of cutting its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.  The

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Wall Street stocks recovered on Friday after a week in which equities have been buffeted by rising oil prices and growing expectations that interest rates will stay higher for longer. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is planning the biggest shake-up to Individual Savings Accounts in years to persuade more people to take advantage of the tax-free vehicles and use them to back London-listed companies. UK

Receive free The Long View updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest The Long View news every morning. The pearl-clutching induced by the Bank of England opting to keep interest rates on hold this week was rather twee. In June, the BoE had bumped up the benchmark rate by

In 2005, a frustrated 33-year-old Lachlan Murdoch met his father for lunch in Los Angeles to deliver an unwelcome message: after 11 years working at News Corp, he had had enough. Other senior executives were not treating him with respect and, worse, Rupert Murdoch often seemed to side with them. Rupert offered to make changes,

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Prime minister Rishi Sunak is considering imposing a complete ban on smoking for the next generation in what would amount to some of the strictest measures to tackle the health problem anywhere in

Rishi Sunak has long held concerns about the cost of hitting net zero, his allies insist, but some close to the UK prime minister say the seeds of this week’s dramatic green pivot can be traced to a single date: July 20. That was the day of the Uxbridge by-election, when the Conservatives clinched a

Receive free Russian economy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Russian economy news every morning. Russia plans to increase state spending in 2024 by more than 25 per cent compared with this year amid expectations the Kremlin will drastically raise cash for president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The

On September 10, Narendra Modi led Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Justin Trudeau and other world leaders on a morning wreath-laying visit to Rajghat, a New Delhi memorial to India’s slain independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.  The spectacle, on day two of the G20 summit, of the Indian prime minister leading the world’s most powerful people, either