What a fantastic piece from ⁦Georgina Quach⁩ ⁦Financial Times⁩ - ‘The challenge for future administrations will be harnessing the existing political will to end homelessness, and honestly confronting the causes, rather than reacting to the consequences’ ft.com/content/58dd29…

This is spot on from Georgina Quach in Financial Times on why tackling homelessness needs to start from an evidence based approach. Preaching to the converted here! ft.com/content/58dd29…

Congratulations to The #PressAwards Broadsheet Feature Writer of the Year category winner Jennifer Williams / Financial Times

was great to be in Bristol to talk newsletters today! also v interesting that student newspapers have or are thinking about their own newsletters

I'm writing three FT newsletters today, including Long Story Short featuring some cool reads and a few of my favourite things (Toni Morrison, 'Garbage Day'). But first up is FirstFT: ft.com/content/b4aa4c…

Meet FT journalists - video interviews here with the likes of Edward Luce, Brooke Masters, Colby Smith, Robert Armstrong, Rana Foroohar and Tabby Kinder about their work. h/t Stephen Bush's Inside Politics daily email subs.ft.com/meet-the-journ…

Chapeau to maestro Stephen Bush for a terrific evening - and fiendishly tough questions - at the Financial Times Inside Politics quiz tonight

If you’re given a special mention before the top 3 teams are announced… that means you came fourth right?!

George Parker Miranda Green Chris Cook

Surge in number of overseas graduates working in UK care sector ft.com/content/0927ea… Really striking stuff from Georgina Quach and colleagues in this morning's @ft

NEW: Tory MP Andrew Rosindell has been under arrest since May 2022 on suspicion of rape + other offences.

During that time he has been absent from parliament, yet has accepted foreign trips worth £8,548.

This shouldn't be hard to report, but it is. Read: politico.eu/article/uk-lib…

I scratch the surface of Wales' challenge of a rapidly ageing (and sickly/inactive) population. I didn't have room to go into this but the proportion of unpaid carers in Wales is rising as is the no of them who leave the labour market. Wales Governance Centre offers potential solutions

“It’s not a vote winner and it feels like nobody understands what children’s social care — and particularly social care for disabled children — is.”

The crisis in children’s services helping to drive more and more councils to the financial brink:

on.ft.com/47YBKVh

Rioting breaks out in central Dublin after stabbing attacks ft.com/content/4b01c1… via @ft

Charts of choice in today's Stephen Bush Inside Politics briefing, with a throwback to the radical state-squeezing times of 2010-15 (set against the swelling tax burden of today). Free 30-day trial still going for those who don't have an FT login! ft.com/tryinsidepolit…

By me and max seddon: I think this is a pretty novel insight into the war. We’ve pieced together how a Russian smuggling network moved stuff from Western Europe for the war effort, but also how the architect in the middle pulled together the network. on.ft.com/3Sxmdrb

Fantastic subject-header by Georgina Quach on today’s newsletter. ft.com/tryinsidepolit…

you can get Inside Politics delivered for free (for a trial period) if you’re not an FT subscriber, and £4.99/month thereafter ft.com/tryinsidepolit…