I remain in denial that this is happening.

The chancellors' debate - Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves go head to head on.ft.com/3RtFA2S

Great work from the FT’s US team overnight with a powerful splash on.ft.com/4eDFjEx Seems like the live blog was fun too…

NEW: Financial Times endorses Labour 'The Conservatives have run out of road. Labour must be given a chance to govern.' Via Financial Times 👇 ft.com/content/2290c1…

Really good piece by Stephen Bush on why UK should be a little less blase about its ethnic minority leaders. It is something to be "cherished not skated over". Sunak, Disraeli and why pride in UK diversity isn’t enough ft.com/content/ffd9c3… via @ft

We might have more serious election coverage later - but Miranda Green has the piece everyone really wants to read. Pork pies and trail mix: the snacks that fuel elections on.ft.com/45QpypI

Good morning... ft.com/content/d7b4e3…

Come for Stephen Bush’s suit. Stay for searing analysis from these legends.

Loads of great writing on the election in the FT Weekend - treat yourself to a nice print version. Best consumed with a coffee

France: Left surges, far right blocked Follow live coverage on ft.com

My column in today's FT: British voters are getting more volatile, which should be a cause of both hope and fear to government and opposition: ft.com/content/6533de…

"It is not just Donald Trump who dodged a bullet..." My column on how close American democracy is to spiraling. ft.com/content/1d3c12…

European allies wondering what Trump's choice of JD Vance as running mate means should read his Financial Times editorial from February: "The US has provided a blanket of security to Europe for far too long... the time has come for Europe to stand on its own feet" ft.com/content/3c87ef…

“If you judge politicians by what they do, not what they say, Democrats have already made their choice. They prefer a probable loss in November to the risk of winning.” Me on the potentially epoch-breaking cost of Biden’s refusal to step down. ft.com/content/a5dff9…

"The US election is now a battle between a man and a woman - not just any man and woman." Me on the remarkably gendered clash already underway, even by 2016's standards. ft.com/content/80a0e2…

Terribly saddened to hear that Martin Indyk has passed away. A voice of fundamental decency, public-spiritedness and sanity. We will miss his voice.

We seek a senior commissioning editor to work on FT Life and Arts and across FT Weekend - it is a wonderful job but you have to be experienced, very, very good and also work with me so think on. Anyway the link is here job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes…

That is one wonderful home page

Small oped today. Just the heads of CIA and MI6 on our pages... ft.com/content/252d7c…

Morning. My take on the international implications of the 13 billion in today's Financial Times FT Economics featuring, jockeys, Jack Grealish, Oasis, tax arbitrage and Venn diagrams. Hope it clarifies things! ft.com/content/f1b954…