China keeps careful watch on mourning for late premier Zhu
Commemoration of former leaders is politically sensitive for authorities wary of displays of public sentiment
Letter: How China’s land grab of Europe’s carmaking mirrors the 1980s
From Paul G Clifford, author of ‘The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation’, London SE22, UK
Letter: When homes were ‘units’ and people were ‘overspill’
From Richard Mayson, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK
Letter: Coleridge-Taylor and the Performing Right Society
From David Woodard, conductor, Tampere, Finland
Letter: The principle underpinning Berlin’s Sunday closing
From Barbara Clancy, Dublin, Ireland
Letter: Journalists’ job is to make sense of our ‘boring’ decade
From Dora Meredith, director of ODI Europe, global affairs think-tank, Brussels, Belgium
Letter: Cumbria theatre hosted Britten and Rostropovich
From Paul Secher, London N6, UK
Letter: Writing’s on the wall
From SK Lo, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
Letter: A good beach presence
From Jim Rodgers, New York, NY, US
Correction: Cat meals
Total annual spend on cat meals in the UK fell from £1.73bn in 2023 to an estimated £1.68bn last year, rather than from £1.73mn to £1.68mn as incorrectly stated in an article in last weekend’s House & Home section
FT Crossword: Polymath number 1,400
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Burnham warns of ‘tinderbox’ Britain after week of intense heat
PM visits scene of wildfire as he explores controversial moves to water down EV sales targets and approve new oilfields
Nvidia discloses $21bn stake in SpaceX
Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centres
Trump family’s crypto venture granted conditional approval for bank licence
Move by regulator to comes as president’s business interests in sector become a political flashpoint
Jane Street suffers $15bn hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness
Secretive Wall Street trading firm wrongfooted by July AI rout
Sheinbaum slams US for revoking visa of former Mexican president’s son
Trump administration accused of foreign interference as López Obrador’s son says decision came from ‘gangster bosses’
Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead
University’s youngest-ever Black professor had been under scrutiny following plagiarism allegations
Transcript: Farage wins . . . and donation probe resumes
Lucy Fisher talks to Anna Gross and George Parker
US accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid Trump’s tariffs
White House says Canada, Japan, EU and others enabling evasion of levies for $60bn in trade via ‘transshipment scam’
Americans sour on Trump’s economy as affordability strains intensify
Consumer sentiment and retail sales fall as the war in Iran worsens cost of living pressures
Second UK train derails in less than 24 hours
Incident in Essex follows derailment of train in East Sussex on Thursday
Unhappy voters are suffering from ‘Baumol’s disease’
An analysis of classical music can explain why people feel they are paying more taxes for worse public services
Luigi Mangione admits shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO
Ivy League graduate pleads guilty in federal case that has become lightning rod for debate about US healthcare system