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UK housebuilding
Housebuilders throw support behind Labour as Tories ‘bow to Nimbyism’
...Letter in response to this article: Just look at Labour’s housebuilding in London / From Tony Devenish AM, Conservative Assembly Member, Housing Committee Member, London Assembly, London E16, UK...
January 28, 2024
News in-depthArctic
Arctic chill: western nations fear China and Russia will exploit regional tensions
...The seven western members of the Arctic Council, the main regional body, stopped co-operating with Russia on everything from protecting the environment to discussing the rights of indigenous people after...
June 5, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
UK local government finance
UK government refuses public inquiry into bankrupt Essex council
...Elected members of the council unanimously requested the public inquiry last month after a petition from residents reached a required number of signatures....
April 2, 2024
News in-depthAnimal welfare
Bears and wolves stray into European politics
...Robin Rigg, chair of the Slovak Wildlife Society, said incidents of recent attacks were “rare and unfortunate accidents that were probably triggered by human activity and behaviour” that would still likely...
April 5, 2024
UK local government finance
Bankrupt Birmingham council takes drastic steps to balance the books
...The County Councils Network, representing the largest local authorities in England, said on Monday that nearly all of its 36 members would have to raise council tax by the maximum allowed of 5 per cent in...
February 19, 2024
UK local government finance
English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets
...England’s town halls are being “forced to the pawnshop” in an unsustainable fire sale of assets aimed at temporarily staving off bankruptcy, councils and experts have warned....
February 28, 2024
FT Live
Africa Summit
Africa in a complex world
Tuesday, 29 OctoberLondon, UK
Travel & leisure industry
London’s Groucho Club chooses Yorkshire manor for first outpost
..., Grade II-listed manor house located in the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near the northern England town of Wakefield....
March 14, 2024
FT Magazine
The puzzling afterlife of Britain’s last executioner
...In late 1945, the National Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty wrote to its members that the postwar Labour government would bring “success to our efforts . . . within the next few years”....
February 9, 2024
Europe Express
Balkan clouds over EU enlargement Premium content
...In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnic Serb members of the municipal council of Srebrenica voted to rename 25 of the town’s streets, commemorating their own community and Serb historical personalities while ignoring...
April 20, 2024
OutlookPatti Waldmeir
Can the secrets of living to 100 translate to ordinary urban life?
...Plenty of US towns seem tempted to try: 75 North American communities have set up Blue Zones projects since the first one in 2009 in Albert Lea, Minnesota, a town of 18,000 people....
November 13, 2023
Government of Wales
Welsh economy minister defends Labour plans to shake up council tax
...It was important for towns to remain “real living places” rather than turning into “dormitory towns” for commuters with hundreds of Airbnb properties, he said....
January 3, 2024
Labour Party UK
Inside the UK’s increasingly toxic by-election campaign
...“People are proud of being from Rochdale,” said John Blundell, the town council’s former cabinet member for economy and communication. “This by-election doesn’t represent the people of Rochdale at all.”...
February 13, 2024
German politics
German far-right party makes electoral breakthrough
...Lochner, a 53-year-old carpenter, is not a member of the AfD but stood as the party’s candidate....
December 18, 2023
UK politics
Sunak unveils police crackdown on protests at democratic venues
...A new protocol agreed between Downing Street and police forces on Wednesday stipulates that protests at MPs’ offices, as well as democratic venues such as parliament and town halls, should not be allowed...
February 29, 2024
News in-depthHungary
Hungarian sex abuse scandal hits close to home for Orbán
...Dániel Molnár, a liberal opposition member of the Bicske city council, said he spent several summers in his youth at the orphanage which set up holiday camps for local children....
April 10, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
News in-depthSenegal
From a jail cell to Senegal’s presidency: the rapid rise of Bassirou Diomaye Faye
...Faye is an accidental president-in-waiting, a back-up plan put in place by the disbanded Pastef party, of which he was a founder member, in case Sonko, 49, its radical leader, was barred from standing over...
March 27, 2024
Europe Express
The EU pursues make-believe in Bosnia Premium content
...Kristian Nielsen, writing for the Geneva Graduate Institute’s Albert Hirschman Centre of Democracy, explains: Each of the main ethnicities — Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats — have a strong sense of self, and...
March 23, 2024
Europe Express
Why more defence spending protects Europe from Russia — and Trump Premium content
...Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić called a special session of the UN Security Council over the issue last week, telling the body that the move was “persecution, and a systematic and widespread attack on...
February 14, 2024
News in-depthIran
Iran to vote in elections as Supreme Leader’s succession looms
...All candidates have been vetted by the Guardian Council....
February 29, 2024
The Big Read
The Islamist insurgents threatening west Africa
...countries’ border areas”, according to the European Council on Foreign Relations....
January 21, 2024
Europe Express
Could the EU’s new Russian assets leverage plan actually work? Premium content
...What to watch today European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council president Charles Michel speak at European parliament plenary, from 9am....
February 6, 2024
UK prime property
New homes are part of Camden Town’s revamp
...In May, the government asked the local council to consider prosecuting a company for “recklessly” signing the building off....
September 27, 2023
News in-depthAutumn Statement
Northern England eyes opportunities of further devolution
...Jo Barnes, director at Yorkshire Energy Park and a board member of Humber freeport, said that without devolution there had been a “danger” the area would fall behind....
November 22, 2023
The Week Ahead
A run of elections while the WTO gathers in Abu Dhabi
...The campaign to be the new representative of the north-west English mill town of Rochdale has become one of the most toxic in modern British political history....
February 25, 2024
Nigeria
Nigeria’s president calls for probe after military kills 85 in errant drone strike
...In 2017, a Nigerian Air Force jet bombed a refugee camp in the town of Rann in Borno state, the centre of the Boko Haram crisis, after mistaking it for a terrorist enclave....
December 5, 2023

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