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Warsh under mounting pressure to raise rates as US inflation persists
Inflation remained stubbornly elevated at 3.4% in August at the end of a week of surging oil prices
Higher than expected core CPI gives Fed enough to tighten
Next week’s decision remains a close call, but there is little sign in the inflation data of continued disinflation
Bond markets stabilise after global sell-off
Decline in oil prices helps calm investor nerves but German borrowing costs hit highest level since 2009
What we still haven’t learnt from 9/11
Facing existential risks like superintelligent AI, we need bold and visionary leaders of the world’s great powers
The AfD won’t stop with Saxony-Anhalt
The far-right party’s ambition is not regional leadership; its recent campaign is a blueprint for running the country
Will Burnham grasp the urgent need to defend the UK?
As threats mount, Labour MPs cheer the PM’s refusal to address the hard spending choices needed for our security
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Claude thinks I’m an investment dunce
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Houthis seize Red Sea islands in lightning offensive
Latest advance against Saudi-backed forces cements Yemeni rebels’ control over vital shipping artery and roils energy markets
The best books of the week
From the rise and fall of Leon Black to the thoughts of Xi Jinping and Gordon Brown, the dystopian visions of Emily St John Mandel and Denmark’s new-wave women writers. Plus poems of hope and resilience, a portrait of the very private Anita Brookner, culture in wartime Ukraine and more
Putin given friendly reception at India Brics summit
Kremlin chief to pursue defence and investment deals with New Delhi at first in-person attendance abroad since Ukraine war
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When Vampire Weekend met Haruomi Hosono
The Japanese music legend talks art, AI and his latest album with super-fan Ezra Koenig
France’s debt interest bill to jump 25% this year
Finance minister Roland Lescure also downgrades GDP growth forecast for 2026
The day Warren Buffett saved Salomon Brothers
‘Our name was rat poison’
Soho House founder Nick Jones: ‘We were never trying to be exclusive’
The restaurateur on the perils of expansion, how cancer changed him — and why hospitality is like a warm bread roll
The Royal Opera’s new season opens with a hell-for-leather Don Giovanni
Conductor Stefano Montanari brings hair-raising orchestral fury to this revival of Kasper Holten’s 2014 production