The larb recipe one FT editor’s been honing for 20 years
Herby, zingy and wonderfully adaptable
The Syrians being swallowed up by Israel’s new frontline
The IDF is using excavators, tanks and bombs to take territory from neighbours and remake its borders
Is your pet a pest?
Given the potential for domestic animals to cause damage to wildlife, some conservationists are calling for restrictive measures — but mitigating strategies are surely a first step
What will Labour’s leasehold alternative mean for homeowners?
Plans to revamp ‘commonhold’ ownership were announced by the UK government this week — but what is commonhold?
Workers are going public about bad bosses
Employees frustrated with complaints processes are joining forces and taking grievances to social media
Outlook darkens for US solar stocks
Also in today’s newsletter, a new report aims to help governments navigate green transition trade-offs
The EU law that’s threatening to up-end the antiquities market
New rules designed to combat terrorism risk consigning artefacts to legal purgatory
North Sea tax plan to peg payments to oil and gas prices
Mechanism is laid out in consultation and would replace controversial ‘windfall tax’
US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict
Flesh by David Szalay — a portrait of modern masculinity
This compelling life story, which follows its Hungarian protagonist from adolescence to obsolescence, goes to places few novelists dare