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A bombshell judgment on Marine Le Pen

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In 1486, Dame Juliana Berners published a seminal list of collective nouns. Controversially, she included a “drunkenness of cobblers” and a “disworship [disgrace] of Scots”. This must have been a bitter blow for Caledonian … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past two decades, Japan’s per capita alcohol consumption has plunged by more than a quarter. Once a staple of workplace bonding and a steady stream of government revenue, alcohol is now falling out … Read more

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Happy “liberation day”. Liberation from what, you ask? We don’t know, but we look forward to finding out … Read more

Argentina’s quest for pizza glory

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Drug developers have been hit by a succession of maladies. Higher interest rates have cut the value of their future breakthroughs. Sector M&A has swooned. Most recently, uncertainty over the health politics of US President … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I run a UK business with my two siblings. Our plan had always been that when one of us passes away, the business would be left to the two surviving siblings. However, with the proposed … Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to ban those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say. Mr. Rubio laid out the instructions in a long … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In last Wednesday’s Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, did exactly what was expected of her. Confronted, as predicted, with worse forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility than those of last October, … Read more

‘Y’all Street’ is an exercise in Texas-sized ring kissing