WorldJune 30, 2026
UK regulator waters down landmark crypto rules
FCA eases capital and disclosure requirements after complaints that incoming digital assets regime was too onerous
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Investigation into maternity care in England finds ‘overall system failure’
Government accepts proposal to appoint a national maternity and neonatal commissioner
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Clarification: John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen is a former chair of Rachel Reeves’ economic advisory council
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Letter: UK electoral experience at odds with Meloni’s claims
From Maurizio Zanardi, Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Business School, Brighton, UK
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Letter: Horns of a dilemma?
From Paul Hofseth, Oslo, Norway
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Farage attempts to justify large donation from Christopher Harborne
‘If a billionaire gave me £5mn to do with as I pleased, I’d spend some of it on acting lessons’
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Letter: Chocks away on Brussels’ biometric border chaos
From Ourania Georgoutsakou, Managing Director, Airlines for Europe (A4E), Brussels, Belgium
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Letter: EU should resist calls to water down its methane regulation
From Sir David King, Founder, Climate Crisis Advisory Group; Former UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2000-2007
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Amazon is now the biggest foreign investor in India’s AI sector
Also in this newsletter, weaponised drones made in India
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WorldJune 30, 2026
Yen weakens to 40-year low
Japanese currency slides past ¥162 a dollar as Federal Reserve’s hawkish shift piles on pressure
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WorldJune 30, 2026
EY staff charged with accessing Australian prime minister’s bank details
Two men aged 21 and 25 were on secondment to country’s largest lender when alleged incident occurred
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WorldJune 30, 2026
The young Chinese choosing life in ‘ghost cities’
Urban castaways are making homes in half-empty towers left over from the world’s biggest housing boom
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