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Budget balancing act: an interview with France’s finance minister Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how to pass a budget that keeps bringing down the French government

On “Money Talks” Sophie Pedder shares her exclusive interview with Roland Lescure, France’s finance minister. How to pass a budget that keeps bringing down governments?

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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Gulf states will invest in Lebanon if Hizbollah disarms, says top US diplomat There are fears that trying to force the group to give up its weapons will trigger a new conflict

Gulf states will invest in Lebanon if Hizbollah disarms, says top US diplomat on.ft.com/3LkCjmj

Fair summary

Populists of the left and right unite behind the politics of easy answers Ireland’s president-elect Catherine Connolly caught the anti-establishment tide

Excoriating from a son of a woman from Kiltimagh, & an FT contributing editor

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Et tu? Fergie

Right that’s stopped the trick or treating in south & south west London tonight & now onto the rest of London

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

More information coming out now on this. Looks like a Cabinet Office scheme led by Georgia Gould… planned savings of £10m-£30m a year (back up lower Premier League full-back price) don’t really seem worth the candle if this the result IMO.

Sounds like a Welsh local authority area

"Britain used to administer an empire from a company building around Downing Street in the 1820s,” the Reform MP for East Wiltshire said during a press conference, arguing that in the past the number of staff needed to run departments was far fewer than today."

If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.

RAJU: Given how dire things are for so many Americans right now, how do you justify the administration giving this big massive bailout to Argentina?

MIKE JOHNSON: Look, we give the execution of foreign policy to the executive branch. We trust the president. Let's talk about the government shutdown

Pope Leo: “War Is Never Holy” — Leaders Must Tear Down Walls and End Violence Pope Leo is done watching self-described Christian leaders praise God with one breath and glorify cruelty with the next.

Pope Leo XIV has called for “an end to this era of political and moral arrogance.”

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Kevin Bakhurst after being told there's a €60,000 painting hanging in someone's RTE office that actually belongs to an art gallery and was only given on loan 40 years ago

“Squeaky Paco was bloody good bloke” latest

London's thieves are burying phones in flowerbeds The police don't take much interest in returning the stolen devices when they're dug up — so London Centric decided to do it.

The fun thing about having a small team working with you is you can say "hey you're spending this week digging for stolen mobile phones in London flowerbeds, I promise you it's a thing". www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...

White dog crap is the next item on the Farage wish list

Money Movers 100 Profile: Europe’s most powerful banker Colm Kelleher

No fool ever came out of West Cork, an occasional series

Money Movers 100 Profile: Europe’s most powerful banker Colm Kelleher

www.businesspost.ie/banking/mone...

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Best foreword to a book I’ve ever read & it’s written in English by a German central banker. The book is David Marsh’s book on the future of Europe

crazy it is almost as if weiss has been promoted beyond her ability

Ah yes, the years 1997-2010, definitely a period the former chairman of Northern Rock should be casting a stone at the public sector over

'FPTP keeps extremists and cranks out of power'

Recent ‘political shifts’ endanger Irish ties to Nato, says ex-UK defence chief Individual tailored partnership programme between Ireland and Nato is under ‘threat’, Jock Stirrup warns

Recent ‘political shifts’ endanger Irish ties to Nato, says ex-UK defence chief

www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.

The political economy of Trump’s luck Those who are bearish on US democracy should not extend their pessimism to the economy

"Like Napoleon’s generals, Trump is a lucky man. Having done what he can to give us a recession, the AI gold rush has so far spared him that fate." My column. www.ft.com/content/dcea...

Possible new pub quiz round? www.ft.com/content/719b...