Your article (“Tory bid to save hereditary peers”, Report, August 26) implies that it was only the Conservative party who voted to amend the government’s hereditary peers bill, while a cross-party ...

Abigail West’s letter touches a nerve we all feel about the Palace of Westminster (“A Rutlander’s plea for relocating UK parliament”, August 28). Perhaps first, though, England could have its own ...

In his article “Should you say ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT?” (Opinion, August 26), Stephen Bush suggests we should say “thank you” to ChatGPT so as not to grow accustomed to barking demands at computers or ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Xi and Modi seek to repair ties, and Europe’s potential plan to send troops to Ukraine ...

China’s Xi Jinping and India’s Narendra Modi have sought to reassure each other that they are “partners not rivals” as the world’s two most populous countries seek to repair ties amid the fallout from ...

All eyes are stateside over the next seven days, as several US institutions enter crunch time following a summer of attacks by US President Donald Trump.

The UK defence sector has beaten out international rivals to land its largest ever warship export deal from Norway, as Oslo and London move to deepen defence ties in the face of increasing Russian ...

The EU will also maintain funding for the training of Ukrainian soldiers after any peace deal. It is encouraging member states to use a €150bn loans-for-arms fund to either enter into joint production ...

Gita Gopinath, the IMF’s outgoing number two official, reflects on six tumultuous years for the global economy ...

In the absence of regulation, exploitation becomes a race, a prisoner’s dilemma on a planetary scale. A recent report by PwC’s global Centre for Nature Positive Business estimated that 55 per cent of ...

Blackstone’s private credit fund, known as Bcred, has drawn in $6.5bn so far this year and $11.7bn over the past 12 months. On the average day markets are open, individual investors are placing more ...

Crowds in Indonesia have broken into and looted the home of finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as protests spread across the country amid a deepening political crisis.