There is a way out of the doom loop for Labour

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor It is harder than it looks. The adage has it that politicians campaign…

Why is the US government about to shut down?

The US government will shut down at 12.01am ET on Saturday unless Congress passes a stop-gap federal funding bill in time. But the politics are fraught and the consequences could include a halt to many federal programmes and payments to…