France prepares for more protests with big police deployment
Government puts 20% more officers on the streets for Saturday to boost security following last weekend’s riots
Fifa and Netflix: sport’s next power couple?
Also in today’s newsletter: Spanish football’s real estate play
Netanyahu threatens ‘aggressive’ offensive after West Bank shooting
Two soldiers killed and three injured by Palestinian gunmen in attack that has stoked tensions before Israeli elections next week
UK mortgage market ‘failing to adapt to new patterns of work’
Lenders’ affordability criteria lead many self-employed borrowers to give up seeking a home loan
Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli ex-military chief challenging Netanyahu
The grizzled 66-year-old who heads the centrist Yashar party is in a knife-edge race to oust the premier
Country music and cowboy hats: Brazil’s rightward shift
A conservative identity with heavy American influence has developed in Brazilian politics over the past decade
A little bit of luck is lifting UK Budget expectations
Healey is poised to deliver his plans just as this year’s drag on global bonds appears to be turning
Tobacco taxes work — even when they give smugglers a windfall
Fiscal income has dwindled as smokers quit but the link between tax rates and illicit activity is not clear-cut
Patrick Dele Cole, journalist and diplomat, 1940-2026
The intellectual, writer and adviser made an outsized contribution to Nigerian political and civil life
China’s luxury brands are ready to elbow western rivals aside
Investors are questioning whether appeal of homegrown Chinese luxury is a durable shift or a shortlived trend
Amelia Earhart and the allure of an unsolved mystery
The search for the daring aviatrix is almost a century old and remains the ultimate treasure hunt
A union storm is coming for employers
The changing relationship between companies and workers will make it harder to do business
Transcript: Martin Wolf on the US midterms — What’s at stake for the world?
Martin Wolf speaks with historian Anne Applebaum
Musk’s bet of the century
The proposed Tesla-SpaceX merger is going all in on AI
France is looking ungovernable. And it’s going to get worse
As disorder engulfs Paris and Marine Le Pen waits in the wings, the country is running out of money, patience and answers
The curse of overexposure
Because everyone can have enough of a good thing, even Olivia Colman
Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
Former NSO Group boss Shalev Hulio seeks to reinvent himself as a champion of sovereign AI and national security
How dolce is Orient Express’s new Grand Tour?
The luxury travel group has combined its Italian hotels, train and sailing yacht into one Byronic modern adventure
Pubs, pints and the art of the Budget gimmick
Andy Burnham may be hoping to repeat George Osborne’s trick by cutting beer duty
The young are conformists in denial
The reassuringly bourgeois values behind a rebellious generation
The money questions children ask AI chatbots
Forty per cent of UK youngsters in a survey had asked AI for financial advice
Don’t let the future rob you of the present
If we always knew what tomorrow held, there would be no place for wonder, surprise and even hope
How much should you plan for your financial future?
Life has a nasty habit of exceeding the budget
The HTSI autumn property special
Public spaces, private lives – how our buildings shape who we are