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UK manufacturing
UK government eyes AstraZeneca factory expansion deal
...He set aside £520mn in his November Autumn Statement to “build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s R&D strengths”....
January 24, 2024
News in-depthUK politics
UK’s ‘technical’ recession is politically toxic for Rishi Sunak
...That means that the “R” word will be hanging around the prime minister’s neck until at least May, when the next quarterly GDP figures are released, unless last year’s figures are revised upwards in the meantime...
February 15, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
UK politics
Sunak says UK economy has ‘turned the corner’ as he seeks to calm Tory nerves
...Sir David Davis, former Brexit secretary, who backed Mordaunt for the Tory leadership in July 2022, said: “The people putting Penny’s name out there are her enemies, not her friends.”...
March 18, 2024
UK politics
Ex-Tory MP Lee Anderson defects to Reform UK
...Anderson last year told local Tory activists in Cambridgeshire: “Now there is a political party that begins with an R that offered me a lot of money to join them....
March 11, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Tories must oust Sunak to avoid ‘extinction’, says ex-minister
...David Davis, former Brexit secretary, said: “This is getting silly. The party and the country are sick and tired of MPs putting their own leadership ambitions ahead of the UK’s best interests.”...
January 23, 2024
UK economy
BoE’s Bailey sees signs of ‘somewhat stronger’ UK growth
...“Sunak’s big claim is that he knows how to run the economy, but if the ‘R’ word is being discussed in an election year, that’s very bad for him. We want to fight the election on the economy.”...
February 12, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Transcript
Transcript: Is OpenAI’s business model sustainable?
...Madhumita Murgia And his point was, there’s this kind of tension where, you know, they could easily build a profitable business, stop putting so much money into R&D and just improve their primary product...
February 28, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Keyon Harrold: Foreverland — jazz freedom and high gloss production
...Like most of today’s trumpeters of note, the influence of Miles Davis is strong — it was Harrold’s trumpet that graced Don Cheadle’s biopic Miles Ahead....
January 5, 2024
ReviewMusic
Metropolitan Opera’s ‘X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X’ is an ambitious portrait of the activist icon
...With a libretto by the poet Thulani Davis, it traces the personal transformation of one of the most consequential American figures of the 20th century, from boyhood to his assassination in 1965....
November 7, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Tories reel from by-election blows
...The R-word now hanging around Rishi Sunak, which she was quick to exploit....
February 16, 2024
UK defence spending
Sunak pledge to boost defence spending raises prospect of cuts elsewhere
...Ben Zaranko, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said cuts to the civil service and a larger portion of the R&D budget “won’t be enough” to fund the defence spending pledge to 2030....
April 24, 2024
The Big Read
Can OpenAI create superintelligence before it runs out of cash?
...“They have a typical start-up identity crisis happening: on one hand they could build a profitable business, wind down their R&D costs and make improvements to their product....
February 15, 2024
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...PepsiCo Q1, Philip Morris International Q1, RWS Holdings HY, Seagate Q3, Shimano Q1, Spotify Q1, Taylor Wimpey AGM & trading update, Tesla Q1, Texas Instruments Q1, United Parcel Service Q1, Visa Q2, W R...
April 21, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The US Supreme Court’s weighty ruling
...That ruling, in which the narrow conservative majority lined up behind the Republican George W Bush against the Democrat Al Gore, created the impression of a partisan court....
February 7, 2024
Biotech
US biotech fundraising boom ends 2-year deal drought
...Additional reporting by George Steer in London...
February 12, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Vedanta Resources PLC
Indian conglomerate Vedanta to break up as debt crunch looms
...Including dollar and rupee-denominated bonds, plus a financing facility from Howard Marks’ Oaktree Capital Management, Vedanta has to pay back close to $6.2bn in the next 18 months, said Lakshmanan R, senior...
September 29, 2023
UK politics
UK to rejoin EU Horizon research programme
...Letter in response to this article: Rejoining Horizon puts Britain back in the global R&D race / From Sam Laidlaw, Chair, National Centre for Universities and Business, London SE1, UK...
September 6, 2023
Inside Politics
Tough by-elections for Tories may reignite criticism from Sunak’s right
...There’s even a hint of such a divide among the critics: the FT’s Sarah Hemming awarded it five stars, while The Times’ Clive Davis gave it only three....
February 15, 2024
ReviewTheatre
Scottish referendum astutely remembered in Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape
...John Michie has a Jeremy Irons-ish geniality as George and Deirdre Davis an angsty integrity as Edie....
October 5, 2023
UK manufacturing
Kemi Badenoch seeks cash for UK ‘advanced manufacturing plan’
...Other existing schemes include £1.4bn of joint government and industry funding to develop emerging vehicle technologies, £685mn for aerospace R&D and the £650mn “high-value manufacturing catapult” to help...
August 23, 2023
UK politics
Johnson fought against lockdown in autumn 2020, inquiry told
...Additional reporting by George Parker...
November 7, 2023
FT Magazine
Why Rishi Sunak and his allies believe re-election is not a lost cause
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor. Lucy Fisher is the FT’s Whitehall editor Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
September 14, 2023
UK politics
Johnson found to have committed ‘multiple’ contempts of parliament
...Former Tory cabinet minister David Davis said: “The difficulty for Boris is, if you’re in a court case, it’s not a viable excuse to say ‘One of the jury is imperfect’, even if it’s true and it may not be...
June 14, 2023
UK manufacturing
UK government pays £500mn in subsidies for Tata battery plant
...Badenoch said Britain would provide “targeted support”, boost R&D, remove bureaucratic barriers, accelerate the rollout of charging points for electric vehicles and address potential trade problems....
July 19, 2023
ObituaryCarla Bley
Carla Bley, jazz composer and pianist, 1936-2023
...Many of the leading jazz artists of the day recorded her compositions — including George Russell, Gary Burton and Jimmy Giuffre....
November 4, 2023

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