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Sir Keir Starmer has dramatically reshaped the UK’s relationship with Israel since taking office. But senior Labour figures insist politics has not driven significant decisions taken by the prime minister. A former human rights lawyer, Starmer restored funding to the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, changed the UK’s stance on arrest warrants against Israeli

This is an audio transcript of the Money Clinic podcast episode: ‘How “painful” will the Budget be for your finances?’ Keir Starmer voice clipI said change would not happen overnight. When there’s a deep rot at the heart of a structure you have to overhaul the entire thing, even if it’s harder work and takes

This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Monday and Friday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Watching Kamala Harris and Tim Walz do their first big media interview with CNN’s Dana Bash late

The assembly area in the Electric Assisted Vehicles factory, in the English town of Banbury, resembles a small-scale car plant. There are four-wheel chassis and orange bins for components. But each vehicle has a set of bicycle pedals, linked by a chain to the rear axle. The Banbury site is one of a growing number

This article is an onsite version of our Europe Express newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday and Saturday morning. Explore all of our newsletters here Welcome back. The leadership team that the EU is assembling to run the show in Brussels for the next five years

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Each week we make charts. You guess charts. We sift mailbag for correct guesses, draw one from big tombola, award T-shirt. Why? No one remembers. (This one’s a .png because our chart tool’s acting weird.

In the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, a Soviet naval captain played by Sean Connery pilots a submarine powered by a “magnetohydrodynamic drive” that is undetectable to military sonar. More than 30 years later, UK start-up Tokamak Energy is supporting a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme to make silent marine propulsion

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s defence minister said on Thursday that the country must “expand” its war goals to include ensuring that people displaced by rocket attacks from the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah can return to their homes. Israel

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany says it will cut benefits to refugees facing deportation, part of a package of tough new measures drafted in response to last week’s terror attack in the western city of Solingen. Ministers also said

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. The parliamentary recess is drawing to a close, and so too is our series in

I read about the latest proposals on visa waivers (Report, August 23) and enhanced passport bureaucracy at the Channel ports with a feeling of sadness and dread. The pleasure of a day out to France has diminished significantly in the past 20 years, long before Brexit. Delays sometimes of over an hour at border control

“It’s impossible to go to the store and buy a chair,” wrote Donald Judd in his 1993 essay “It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp”. This is, of course, nonsense.  What he really meant was that “it’s impossible to go to the store and buy a chair that would look right in the world I

Governance arrangements at the combined authority in north-east England chaired by Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen have come in for more criticism from external experts, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. The Tees Valley authority, which oversees the Teesworks regeneration project, had failed to fully meet internal auditing standards, one independent review concluded.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr has withdrawn a $6bn bid to take control of Paramount, the latest twist in a chaotic saga over the Hollywood group’s future. Bronfman said he notified the Paramount board committee of

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Computer chips power toys and control nuclear reactors. They are in phones, cars and planes, getting us to work and keeping us safe. And they are at the centre of a growing tech war between the

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In Leeds, Simon Goulding, who is about to buy his first home, has noticed how quickly the mortgage market is changing. In April, he was offered a loan worth 26 per cent of the value of the home, fixed for five years, at 4.9 per cent. Last week, after finding the right property, he could

By Jessica Rawnsley, Financial Times The rice is pastel pink. It has a nutty, umami aroma. A slightly brittle texture. But, most surprising of all, each grain contains beef cells. It is a hybrid rice, laced with muscle and fat cells and nurtured in a petri dish to create something novel: part cow, part grain.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rise of streaming and the fragmentation of audiences increases the risk of falling valuations for sports rights, the executive behind Formula One’s Netflix series has warned. Sean Bratches, a former F1 and ESPN executive