Does your home need mothering? Call the house doula

A cross between personal assistant, cleaner and house manager, these all-round helpmeets offer nurturing support for houses — and their owners

Cold Sunset

The third instalment in the Gabriel Dax series combines psychological tension and paranoia with irony and humour

Claridge’s has either given up, lost its mind or both

London’s grandest hotel has installed an expensive, oddly lifeless offshoot of the NYC favourite

'Squid Has a Distinctive Odor to It': Seafood Truck Crash in Rhode Island Creates 'Squidpocalypse of ’26'

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.”

Agrippa by Robert Harris

Harris’s follow-up to the Cicero trilogy charts the fractious aftermath of Caesar’s death — and could have done with three volumes too

Travelodge chief steps down after female guest assaulted

Joanna Boydell replaced by chief financial officer Ray Reidy on an interim basis

Don’t take that summer trip for granted

One of the great, under-appreciated benefits of modernity is the ability to seek discovery for discovery’s sake

Why the story of the Vegetable Lamb was believed

Our weakness for misinformation is far from new

Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

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Julia R. Cartwright is a senior research fellow in law and economics at the American Institute for Economic Research.

How many more of Japan’s iconic buildings will be lost?

A country short of land and prone to earthquakes is seeing innovative design gems demolished for new developments — but not, in some cases, without a fight

The world’s best ice cream stores: the readers’ picks 2.0

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.