Oceans cannot become ‘wild west’, warns UN chief

Esme Stallard Climate and science correspondent Reporting fromUN Oceans Conference, Nice, France Getty Images Unregulated mining in the deep sea should not be allowed to go ahead, the head of the United Nations has warned. “The deep sea cannot become the Wild West,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said at the opening of the UN…

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Only a crisis will wean the west off debt

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This is unpatriotic of me, but I suggest that international bond investors take note of the following realities in Britain. The Labour government has a tremendous majority in parliament. It does not have to call…

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