Comment: No one is left to enforce the rules, New York’s fare...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday September 06 2013     Comment   No one is left to enforce the rules   Europe's posture in the face of conflicts spreading in the Middle East is best described as hiding under the bedcovers       New York's farewell to America's mayor   A position dominated in recent times by high-profile officials could fall into the hands of a candidate interested in humble issues such as race and poverty     London needs HS2 as much as the north   Patch up and mend is not the answer to infrastructural failings that will take their toll on the economy as a whole     France's Hollande takes a risk on Syria   French president has set his country at odds with its traditional policy of acting in concert with the UN and its European allies     Plassat clears Carrefour's brown bananas   The challenge is to modernise the retail group's European operations – and develop those in Brazil and China, its two other main markets         Opinion   A hunger for change at the top Down Under   The country's citizens are set to junk the leader best placed to guide them in favour of a man with a slimmer grasp of the complexities ahead       Spooks need new ways to keep secrets   Whistleblowing is the civil disobedience of our information age. It is how someone without power can make a difference   Markets Insight   China's stimulus has more to show than US   The fiscal policies of the two countries, the world's largest and second-largest economies, are the mirror image of each other, writes Henny Sender           Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.