The Bank of England signalled it would cut rates this summer if inflation stays low, even as it kept borrowing costs at a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent. ft.com/content/b8e797… via @ft

South Africa ponders ‘corporate sunset’ for Anglo American via Financial Times
⁦Monica Mark⁩ on.ft.com/4b9BYLq

EU countries have agreed to use an estimated €3bn in profits arising from Russia’s frozen state assets to jointly buy weapons for Ukraine. ft.com/content/10d3f2… via @ft Paola Tamma Laura Dubois

In a filing on Tuesday, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, scrapped the provisional May 20 date for the case to go to trial in Miami, and indicated she would not decide on a fresh date for some time.
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Brexit wouldn’t have happened if Europe had made more concessions to the UK, CDU leader Friedrich Merz tells the FT. He also turns out to be a fan of the Rwanda model ft.com/content/0e60f4… via @ft

Russia arrests US soldier on theft charges ft.com/content/e2846b… via @ft

🇩🇪 - Espionage scandals are hurting Germany’s far right
• Charges of Chinese & Russian influence are marring AfD’s campaign for European parliament elections
• Party’s support stood at just 16% on April 30th, down from 23% in December and far below CDU/CSU

I visited the world's newest cruise ship and it was baffling ft.com/content/90c870…

Green transition funding:
-we spend less than 1/6th of what we spent on covid in 2020
-fossil fuel subsidies ⁦= 80pct of annual climate funding needs
via Financial Times⁩ ⁦Attracta Mooney⁩

Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn via Financial Times on.ft.com/3y7YnKw

Live now: Jake Sullivan, United States National Security Advisor in conversation with Edward Luce, FT US national editor.

Jake Sullivan | Edward Luce | #FTWeekendFestival | FT Weekend

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The French school that’s cracked getting kids off their phones

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How Marine Le Pen fell out with the German far right - and the role played by a small tropical island called Mayotte ft.com/content/69225e… via @ft

My Top Line story - Lagardère: Anatomy of a French heir’s fall via Financial Times
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What a star
Blazing soprano Nadine Sierra sets Royal Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor alight — review via Financial Times
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Ukraine has disabled or destroyed a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.

We look at how Kyiv's Black Sea successes have enabled exports from Odesa and other key ports to return to pre-war levels ig.ft.com/black-sea/

Today we Londoners were voting for their mayor and Count Binface was actually on the ballot

Macron’s grand speech falls short of a plausible path for Europe’s future ft.com/content/45b44e… via @ft Shahin Vallée

One ally puts it simply: “Ed knows how government works and how Labour works.

The second coming of Ed Miliband ft.com/content/77b1b6… via @ft

'Adults from all walks — Republicans, Democrats, the media and university administrations — are exhibiting traits of hysteria and dogmatism they deplore in the young'
ft.com/content/198902… via @ft Edward Luce