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News in-depthEU-China relations
Europe turns on China’s Nuctech after decade of awarding security contracts
...Nuctech, the Chinese security equipment supplier raided by EU authorities, has won more than 160 public tenders in Europe over the past decade despite national security warnings about the company’s products...
April 25, 2024
Greensill Capital
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
...Lex Greensill has sued the UK’s Department for Business and Trade over alleged misuse of private information, according to High Court records. Details of the claim have not yet been made public....
March 5, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
UK Budget
Hunt set to unveil investment to boost public sector productivity
...of investment in public services....
February 29, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The myth of victimless tax rises
...Debates on the details of the UK tax system are welcome, but the tweaks both parties have been jostling over are piddling compared to the scale of the public finance challenges facing the future government...
April 17, 2024
Inside BusinessSam Jones
The decline of the luxury department store
...But the “aspirational” luxury market is in trouble. And it is this market which is the customer base of the luxury department store....
February 2, 2024
Letter
Letter: How advocates for climate action can hurt their cause
...In this context, Fatih Birol’s column (Opinion, March 21) is a breath of fresh air for the way it balances news of the climate crisis with news of dramatic advances in the energy transition, from a non-apocalyptic...
March 26, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
The surprising public health benefit of unemployment
...They examine the impact of the great recession of 2007-09 on death rates in different parts of the US, some of which suffered sharper increases in unemployment than others....
March 8, 2024
Letter
Letter: Blame real estate owners for the woes of department stores
...Far from revealing the limitations of the department store business model, as claimed by Sam Jones (“Travails of luxury department stores reveal a story of decline”, Inside Business, February 2), the cases...
February 19, 2024
Kalin Anev Janse
Celebrate that European safe assets have joined the €1tn club
...As this June’s elections loom, the question of how to finance European public goods is becoming unavoidable. In the past, we have seen that a joint response has yielded positive results....
March 25, 2024
Boeing Co
US justice department investigates door blowout on Alaska Airlines flight
...The US Department of Justice is investigating the mid-air door panel blowout that terrified passengers of an Alaska Airlines flight two months ago....
March 9, 2024
Letter
Letter: Don’t keep voters in the dark over Big Tech’s role
...Peter CalowProfessor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis, MN, US...
April 15, 2024
Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
Inside Vacheron Constantin’s bespoke workshop
...Almost a decade later, the approach is a little more open: the latest watch is on public display at this week’s fair, and the mystery buyer, of both models, now has a last name: Berkley....
April 9, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Is there a way out of Haiti’s nightmare?
...I mean, that’s obviously founded on the fact that he had no legitimacy and the public was pretty tired of him....
March 14, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
Investing through the eyes of a child
...Baikowitz believes the scale of the hunger crisis, which contributes to more than 3mn deaths of children under-five a year, calls for new forms of capital and new ways of deploying it....
April 12, 2024
Letter
Letter: Design is for the masses whether we like it or not
...He was also a great advocate for sustainability, long before the term was even invented....
April 19, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
UK government spending
Only 10% of UK levelling up funds spent, say MPs
...The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities could not provide “any compelling examples of what had been delivered so far”, according to a report published by the House of Commons public accounts...
March 15, 2024
Jeffrey S Merrifield
Climate change is warming public opinion to nuclear power
...In July last year, the US Senate passed the Nuclear Fuel Security Act on a vote of 96-3, directing the Department of Energy (DOE) to prioritise increasing domestic production of low-enriched uranium for...
March 21, 2024
Global InsightLeo Lewis
Japan’s super train needs democratic force
...The public meanwhile has, sometimes violently, opposed grand projects such as the construction of Narita airport in which the public benefit is far less clear....
April 9, 2024
Person in the News
Sabato de Sarno, the designer who must turn around Gucci
...Barely six months later, the pressure on the public face of Gucci’s turnaround has only increased....
March 23, 2024
Jo Ellison
Amy Winehouse and the bankruptcy of the biopic
...This week, we have also seen the spectre of George Michael rising from the dead: the singer, who died in 2016, will resume “live public performances” next year, according to records filed at Companies House...
January 19, 2024
Space Exploration Technologies Corp
SpaceX accused of unlawfully sacking workers critical of Elon Musk
...In a lawsuit filed in August, the justice department accused the company of discriminating against asylum seekers and refugees in its hiring process....
January 3, 2024
Health
England has highest rates of child alcohol consumption, international study finds
...The survey, published on Thursday, found more than half of 13-year-olds have drunk alcohol in England as have a third of all 11-year-olds, prompting child health advocates to call for more measures to protect...
April 25, 2024
Letter
Letter: Don’t underestimate the dangers of space economy
...Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan Head of the Geopolitics & Global Futures Department, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, Switzerland Member, Global Future Council on Complex Risks, World Economic Forum...
January 9, 2024
Cyber Security
US to ban visas for spyware abusers and manufacturers who sell to them
...department said on Monday....
February 5, 2024
UK defence spending
Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere
...Rishi Sunak has claimed he can protect public services and reduce taxes while boosting defence spending by £75bn over the next six years, raising the prospect of deep cuts to unprotected government departments...
April 24, 2024

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