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Labour Party UK
Labour quadruples use of consultants in run-up to UK election
...Labour under Sir Keir Starmer has been critical of the Conservative government’s increasing use of expensive consultants in the civil service....
January 3, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong passes tough new security law
...Hong Kong has passed a tough security law that was fast-tracked through the legislature in a move critics say will further erode civil liberties in the Chinese territory....
March 19, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong fast-tracks tough new national security law
...Hong Kong is fast-tracking a tough new national security law that imposes life imprisonment for treason and increases sentences for crimes such as sedition, fuelling concerns that civil liberties are being...
March 8, 2024
Six films to watch this week
Sometimes I Think About Dying — Daisy Ridley shows her quiet side in eerie comedy-drama
...Ridley plays introverted, solitary Fran, an office worker in a small town on the Oregon coast....
April 18, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Culture chat — ‘Civil War’ is not the film you think it is
...I mean, I think, yeah, the thing that the film is trying to do is to depict the type of civil war and indeed the type of conversations journalists covering that type of civil war have about what they’re...
April 19, 2024
Janan Ganesh
OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power
...In Europe, both the “woke” movement and much of the alt-right reaction against it are American imports. And the US isn’t even trying to do this....
April 20, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
InterviewFilm
Alex Garland on new film Civil War: ‘How do we defend ourselves against extremism?’
...Garland’s American production house A24, known for taking big risks with the likes of The Zone of Interest and Beau Is Afraid, has invested more in Civil War than any previous film....
April 5, 2024
UK economy
Rise in civil engineering activity boosts UK construction sector
...Mortgage approvals hit a 17-month high in February helped by further falls in the cost of home loans, according to the Bank of England....
April 5, 2024
Georgia
Georgians rally against ‘foreign influence’ law they say is modelled on Putin regime
...Ivanishvili, the oligarch behind the ruling party, is Georgia’s richest man, having made money in the metals and banking sector after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
April 19, 2024
Letter
Letter: Hinkley delays put civil nuclear plans in jeopardy
...This poor performance at Hinkley threatens to derail energy security and the road map for civil nuclear set out in January by energy security and net zero secretary Claire Coutinho....
March 15, 2024
Social affairs
UK civil service boss and spy chief quit male-only Garrick Club
...The heads of the UK civil service and MI6 have both quit the Garrick Club after they were revealed as members of the London gentleman’s club that does not allow women to join....
March 20, 2024
US presidential election 2024
Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and freedom’ in fiery State of the Union speech
...“If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose I promise you: I will restore Roe vs Wade as the law of the land again,” he said....
March 8, 2024
Six films to watch this week
Civil War film review — Apocalypse Now goes TikTok in a grandly tasteless disaster movie
...Civil War is the stuff of nightmares in the new film of the same name. American carnage has come to pass in Manhattan, Pittsburgh and beyond. It also looks naggingly sexy....
April 11, 2024
FT Magazine
A personal history of America’s historian-in-chief
...But as she sees it, American history has been filled with turbulence. She ticks off the other periods that she has studied: the Civil War, the Great Depression, the second world war....
April 20, 2024
News updates from March 19: Bank of Japan ends negative rate era; Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder
Diageo appoints former UK civil service chief as chair
...Diageo has appointed the former chief executive of the UK civil service as chair, after a difficult year in which the drinks giant’s sales in Latin America slumped, triggering a 15 per cent tumble in its...
March 19, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Russian politics
West condemns Vladimir Putin’s re-election as violating ‘civil and political rights’
...“Russian authorities have continued to increase the systematic internal repression . . . which has resulted in an alarming increase of violations of civil and political rights,” it added....
March 18, 2024
Letter
Letter: How much more can Russian civil society take?
...The state of a civil society is indeed the best criterion by which to classify different states....
February 14, 2024
News updates from April 5: US jobs growth outstrips forecasts in March; Thames Water parent company defaults on debt
Terraform Labs and co-founder Do Kwon found liable in civil fraud case
...The civil verdict, handed down on Friday after a nine-day trial, is a win for the US Securities and Exchange Commission, which has sought to crack down on the crypto sector....
April 5, 2024
Investor activism
US state leads pushback against company moves to thwart proxy fights
...Tobias Read, Oregon’s treasurer, is running in this year’s elections to be secretary of state, one step below governor....
January 9, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Cancelled: can liberal democracy survive the culture wars?
...Mounk illustrates the change by citing the evolution of the American Civil Liberties Union....
October 18, 2023
Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
Why are American roads so dangerous?
...So committed are Americans to their cars that 63 per cent of people choose to drive for trips of less than a mile, compared with 16 per cent in the UK....
April 19, 2024
Anglo American PLC
De Beers’ diamond output drops after slow recovery triggers production cut
...De Beers was the only unit of Anglo American to adjust its full-year production forecast on Tuesday, reducing its guided range to 26mn to 29mn carats of output, from 29mn to 32mn, and lifting expected average...
April 23, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
Swamp Notes: The play for union power
...Union workers used to be a reliable pillar of the Democratic party’s voting coalition. Then Donald Trump arrived on the scene....
March 16, 2024
Letter
Letter: How American industrial policy can avoid corporate capture
...The case of Boeing, one of the most storied champions of American industrial policy, illustrates the uncompetitive and dangerous outcomes of the state-business relationship....
March 20, 2024
Diageo PLC
Diageo to appoint former senior UK civil servant as chair
...Diageo plans to appoint as chair Sir John Manzoni, a former chief executive of the UK civil service, while the drinks group is trying to draw a line under a bruising year that has triggered a slump in its...
March 19, 2024

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