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InterviewBrexit
UK to launch PR blitz to lure scientists back into Horizon programme
...Some parts of Plan B would be retained, she said....
December 4, 2023
Workplace pensions
UK Treasury set for £100mn windfall from nationalised banks’ pension funds
...UKAR has gradually been selling the assets of B&B and Northern Rock to the private sector....
October 21, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
OpenAI
Share sale set to test financial impact of OpenAI’s leadership turmoil
...That was “not good”, said Alon-Beck, referring to the failure to replace all of them....
November 26, 2023
US equities
From Mongolian football to the ‘Pasta Prince of LA’
...“We intend to buy teams, like a Serie B team, and have the unlocking of value occur for two reasons: one would be eventual advancement and perhaps promotion . . . and two, just getting them inside a public...
March 8, 2024
Gig economy
Deliveroo’s sub clause keeps the wheels turning
...(a) under a contract of employment, or(b) under any other contract whereby he undertakes to do or perform personally any work or services for another party to the contract who is not a professional client...
November 23, 2023
UK retail sales
British retail sales beat forecasts ahead of key Christmas period
...However, George Moran, economist at the bank Nomura, said that while the data for November suggested some improvement in consumer activity, he expected “December to be weaker to compensate for the strong...
December 22, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Letter
Letter: Foreign policy is constant, America’s parties waver
...When Democrats were in the White House — starting with Franklin D Roosevelt and then under John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, and even Barack Obama — they favoured internationalist policies,...
January 25, 2024
Music
Five stars for Emerson String Quartet’s farewell concerts in New York
...The programme for a quartet late in its style was music of late styles, Beethoven’s Op 130 Quartet in B-flat major, with the Grosse Fuge as the last movement, and after intermission Schubert’s Quintet in...
October 23, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Rebellions, reshuffles and Cameron’s return
...I want to bring George and Stephen in. George, let’s look at the politics of this. The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
November 17, 2023
UK politics
Braverman claims Sunak ‘repeatedly failed’ on immigration
...deterrent to others hoping to arrive in the UK irregularly.https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1724465401982070914 Braverman accused Sunak of having “failed to prepare any sort of credible ‘plan B’...
November 14, 2023
UK politics
Sunak defends plan to axe northern leg of UK’s HS2 rail line
...Aides have not denied that Sunak will announce his new transport plan on the podium on Wednesday, but officials have been working frantically behind the scenes on a plan B....
October 3, 2023
Live news updates from January 12: US inflation hits 15-month low, IMF predicts growth to hit ‘bottom’ in 2023
British guitarist Jeff Beck dies of bacterial meningitis at 78
...British guitarist Jeff Beck has died at 78 after contracting bacterial meningitis, his representative said on Wednesday....
January 12, 2023
Inside Politics
Sunak bets on a double whammy to hold on to power
...(George Parker’s story on the prime minister’s thinking and the early battle lines for the election is here.) Is he right? I don’t know. I think it’s unlikely....
January 8, 2024
Oil
Oil jumps above $90 on concerns over escalation in Israel-Hamas war
...It expects demand to increase by 880,000 barrels a day in 2024, compared with a 2.3mn b/d increase in 2023. Additional reporting by Jamie Smyth in New York...
October 13, 2023
Markets
US stocks advance ahead of inflation data
...of the labour market’s resilience to tighter monetary conditions meant “pressure on the [Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee] to continue increasing rates in August will be intense”, said Martin Beck...
July 11, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Container shipping
US-led coalition to create safe corridor in Red Sea as ship diversions mount
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
December 20, 2023
ReviewMusic
Mostly Mozart festival review — a satisfying new fusion and a phenomenal young bassist
...Foley played in duet with violinist and concertmaster Ruggero Allifranchini in his own For Justice and Peace, and then soloed in Bottesini’s Double Bass Concerto No 2 in B Minor....
August 2, 2023
ReviewBooks
Alphabetical Diaries — a self-revelatory quest with Sheila Heti
...Sentences that begin with A come in the first chapter, arranged in strict alphabetical order, like index entries; sentences that start with B in the second, and so on....
February 5, 2024
Special ReportWomen in Business
Skims co-founder Emma Grede: ‘I’m trying to create a pathway for people like me’
...With Good American — which is B-Corp certified, meaning it has verified commitments to environmental and social aims — Grede wanted to create jeans for a large range of body shapes....
March 8, 2024
UK immigration
First asylum seekers moved to UK’s Bibby Stockholm barge
...Asked if ministers were preparing a Plan B in the event that the government’s scheme to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda was struck down in the courts, Downing Street said: “We consider all options to stop...
August 7, 2023
News in-depthOil & Gas industry
Oil and gas profits triple under Biden even as industry decries him
...It’s more the fundamentals,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former energy adviser to George W Bush....
February 27, 2024
The Art Market
Here’s your chance to not buy a painting
...Artex aims to raise $55mn via a private placement and use the proceeds to buy Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, a Francis Bacon triptych described on page 36 of the preliminary offer memorandum...
March 1, 2024
Life & Arts
Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
...version, The Madness of King George....
February 16, 2024
Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
New fund aims to boost biodiversity on England’s farms
...Mariana Sarmiento, chief executive and founder of Terrasos, a Colombian B-Corp that has developed about 50,000 hectares of privately financed biodiversity projects, points to compliance-based schemes in...
July 13, 2023
Non-Fiction
‘Thrillingly told’ account of Canadian wildfire scoops Baillie Gifford prize
...B, a biography of choreographer George Balanchine. Each wins £5,000....
November 16, 2023

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