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Inside Politics
Metro mayors ditching ideology
...The market alone won’t get economies firing on all cylinders in Blackpool, Burnley or Birmingham; it needs something to help it along....
April 25, 2024
UK local elections
‘What will change?’: council funding woes loom over UK local elections
...“Local councils don’t have enough money,” said Simon Hill, a 32-year-old bus driver. “It makes you not want to bother to vote. Nothing gets done.”...
April 30, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Chinese equities
Hong Kong rallies close to bull market territory
...“I don’t see how it’s structurally feasible, I just see it as a bounce,” said another analyst who did not wish to be named. “Flow begets momentum but I just don’t know how long that lasts.”...
April 29, 2024
Climate change
Rich nations pledge $11bn to World Bank for climate and global crises
...The contributions follow calls from new president Ajay Banga for a “better” and eventually “bigger” bank....
April 20, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: A glow-up for China’s state-owned enterprises
...Here to talk with me about it is the FT’s William Sandlund. Hi, William. William Sandlund Thanks for having me on....
April 17, 2024
UK politics
Two founders of Teesworks project hit out at mayor Houchen
...“We just can’t make sense [of it], other than total incompetence,” said Gibson. He lamented the lost opportunity. “If we get it right . . . it’s going to revolutionise the Tees Valley,” Gibson said....
April 26, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
The Big Read
Inside the UK’s failing plans to ‘level up’ left-behind towns
...“If you’re a Conservative, you’re really cross because it’s your flagship policy and it hasn’t delivered,” she says. “And if you’re Labour, well, hey — we thought it didn’t work and it hasn’t.”...
April 26, 2024
ObituaryJPR Williams
JPR Williams, rugby player, 1949-2024
...The game has only become more physical, some would say dangerous, as players have grown faster, bigger and stronger....
January 13, 2024
Trade Secrets
Ajay Banga tries to build a better World Bank Premium content
...(Spoiler: it won’t persuade them otherwise.) What is Banga’s World Bank doing for us?...
April 15, 2024
ExplainerUK immigration
What next for Sunak’s plans to fly UK asylum seekers to Rwanda?
...“There can’t be any of these general challenges to the situation in Rwanda — any challenge has got to be very specific to the individual applicant,” said Chris Cole, a solicitor who sits on the Law Society...
April 23, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Who’s behind the Tory plots?
...So you can imagine the gap between what they’re spending and what central government is giving them back is getting bigger and bigger....
January 26, 2024
Eurozone inflation
Will eurozone inflation continue to slow?
...William Sandlund...
March 31, 2024
UK politics
Senior Tory MP admits releasing colleagues’ numbers to dating app contact
...We were meant to meet up for drinks, but then didn’t. Then he started asking for numbers of people. I was worried because he had stuff on me. He gave me a WhatsApp number, which doesn’t work now.”...
April 4, 2024
HTSI
The fairytale visions of Guglielmo Castelli
...I don’t believe in Once Upon a Time.” Guglielmo Castelli: Improving Songs for Anxious Children runs from 15 April to 17 July at Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice...
March 30, 2024
UK business
Manchester’s new arena delays opening night amid safety concerns
...The postponement was “the right decision” for Co-op Live “if they feel the venue is not ready to welcome visitors and their systems aren’t fully tested”, the council added....
April 22, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK local government finance
English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets
...“The bottom line is we can’t justify spending several million pounds a year just to keep it standing and running when we have a budget gap which desperately needs filling....
February 28, 2024
News in-depthPhilanthropy
Philanthropy funds community services as UK state support withers
...“And it got bigger and bigger and bigger.” Since then, OnSide has opened 13 more centres in disadvantaged areas, including three in London, with seven more in the pipeline....
December 29, 2023
UK economy
Unwinding British QE may end up costing £100bn. Could that have been avoided?
...see how it won’t be big and negative....
March 26, 2024
UK local government finance
Starmer urged to commit to additional funding for English councils
...“Labour has said it will do things like fair funding and having long term funding commitments but won’t do more,” Betts said. “It helps but it doesn’t solve it.”...
March 31, 2024
On Wall StreetWilliam Cohan
The bank argument on the Basel III endgame is bunk
...But it’s not that the banks don’t have the capital; many of them do....
March 23, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Senior MP quits Tory parliamentary party amid sexting scandal
...Senior MP William Wragg has quit the Conservative parliamentary party after admitting he provided phone numbers of colleagues to a man he was in contact with on Grindr, the gay dating app....
April 9, 2024
News in-depthUK Budget 2024
‘Disastrous’: Justice system leaders warn Hunt against further austerity
...When his commitment to bigger boosts in spending on key areas is taken into account, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank has estimated the plans imply real-term cuts to “unprotected” departments...
March 4, 2024
News in-depthUK infrastructure
Rail chaos prompts fresh calls to nationalise England’s West Coast line
...“Either the government knew or Avanti didn’t make it clear,” said Memmott. “That’s really rather alarming.”...
April 15, 2024
News in-depthUK by-elections
‘Macho’ all-male Rochdale by-election fuels political divisions over Gaza
...So no, it doesn’t wash, it doesn’t play,” he added....
February 24, 2024
UK immigration
Sunak gets Rwanda bill through parliament
...“The policy isn’t going to work as a deterrent,” said one ally of Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader. “Sunak might think it’s better to have an election before people realise that.”...
April 22, 2024

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