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Labour’s school fees VAT threat sends a chill through parents

...He says that will now not be possible if Labour’s proposal goes through. “Without the VAT we would have struggled but we would have put them through,” he says....

February 23, 2024

Climate change

US pushed behind scenes for approval of corporate carbon offset plan

...pressure on the organisation to endorse carbon offsets had been “about creating a demand-side signal at any cost, [even by] destroying the reputation of SBTi and maybe the last chance of closing the gap to 1.5...

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Future of Retail

Securing long-term business growth with technology innovation

Food & Drink

Fish and fennel meatball spaghetti – a Ravinder Bhogal recipe

...Lady and the Tramp offers one of the most unlikely scenes of wooing between two animated dogs, the elegant, doe-eyed Lady and street‑smart ruffian Tramp....

February 21, 2024

John Lewis Partnership PLC

John Lewis appoints Tesco veteran as new chair

...Sales climbed 1 per cent to £12.4bn....

April 8, 2024

John Lewis Partnership PLC

John Lewis Partnership returns to profit after 3 years of losses

...Waitrose’s sales rose 5 per cent to £7.7bn, driven by an average 6.6 per cent increase in prices. Sales at John Lewis were down 4 per cent to £4.8bn....

March 14, 2024

InterviewWar in Ukraine

Ukraine to increase long-range strikes in Russia, says UK defence chief

...The UK government has pledged this week to increase defence spending from about 2.3 per cent to 2.5 per cent of national income....

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

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Transcript: Thames Water hits the gutter

...John Burn-MurdochYeah. So the number that we really care about here is 2.1 births per woman. That’s what we call the replacement rate....

April 3, 2024

Strategic Petroleum Reserve USA

Reimagining the SPR

...For example, in recent decades, a swing of just 1 million barrels can swing crude oil prices dramatically even in a market supplied by roughly 100 million barrels per day....

February 24, 2024

ObituaryJohn Bruton

John Bruton, Irish premier and diplomat, 1947-2024

...It squeaked through by half a percentage point....

February 10, 2024

John Gapper

Rolex has ended up in a Peruvian pile of bling

...john.gapper@ft.com...

April 5, 2024

Investments

Directors’ Deals: PHP head seeks healthy return

...He owns 1.83 per cent of the company, according to FactSet data....

April 19, 2024

Electric vehicles

MG’s Chinese owner and Indian steelmaker JSW team up to build EVs

...India’s biggest steel producer JSW and Chinese carmaker SAIC Motor on Wednesday launched a $1.5bn joint venture to build and sell MG-brand electric vehicles in the world’s most populous country....

March 20, 2024

HTSI

True romance – with an edge

...Ferrari transparent-nylon pencil skirt, €690 Prada silk gazar and technical voile dress, £5,100....

April 19, 2024

News in-depthMiddle East military briefing

Ukraine’s air defence struggle highlights risks to Israel

...In an 11-day war in 2021, Hamas fired off nearly 5,000 rockets from Gaza, with each salvo made up of 50 or more projectiles. Israel does not disclose the size of its missile reserves....

April 17, 2024

FT Swamp Notes

Tyler Cowen: Why we will learn to love AI Premium

...In the week before we spoke, Cowen listed at least eight new rollouts, which includes an upgraded GPT, Meta’s next AI iteration, Google DeepMind’s Gemini 1.5, which can read and digest enormous documents...

April 19, 2024

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

News updates from February 9: S&P 500 finishes above 5,000, Sunak notches capital gains of £1.8mn in 2023

S&P 500 breaks through 5,000 to mark fresh record for US stocks

...The basket of blue-chip US stocks rose as high as 5,000.4 on Thursday, seconds before closing the session 0.1 per cent higher at a record 4.997.91....

February 8, 2024

News updates from February 8: S&P 500 breaks through 5,000, Zelenskyy appoints new top general

S&P 500 breaks through 5,000 to mark fresh record for US stocks

...The basket of blue-chip US stocks rose as high as 5,000.4 on Thursday, seconds before closing the session 0.1 per cent higher at a record 4.997.91....

February 8, 2024

Taiwan

Taiwan’s trade tsar seeks new deals and braces for possible Trump win

...Slowly but surely, Taipei has broken through Beijing’s attempts to isolate it and opened up economic pathways with global partners....

April 24, 2024

HTSI

Can John and Jack Whitaker make Olympic showjumping history?

...Royal Windsor Horse Show 2024, 1-5 May, rwhs.co.uk...

April 2, 2024

Global InsightJohn Reed

Who gains from India’s endless election?

...john.reed@ft.com Letter in response to this column:Cricket, like elections, is a time-consuming spectacle / From Rajiv Radhakrishnan, London NW8, UK...

March 26, 2024

Q&AUK tax

Will software ease the pain of filing tax returns?

...Some 5.2mn returns were submitted directly on the HMRC website or app and 6mn via commercial software....

February 9, 2024

The Art Market

Controversial AI photo comes to the market

...The works chart the impact of industry on the American landscape through the 19th and 20th centuries and were originally pulled together by the late John Szarkowski, longtime head of photography at MoMA....

April 25, 2024

John Lee

A year of takeovers can fuel my portfolio

...Capitalisation has fallen from a peak of £1.8bn to a derisory £400mn today....

March 20, 2024

John Wood Group PLC

It’s probably Britain’s fault when stocks fall, even when it’s not

...Wood trades at 1/3rd of the multiple of the comparable, higher quality peers like Worley (often cited as your key competitor and the business most like Wood), Jacobs and KBR and a 48% discount to the sector...

April 16, 2024

The Big Read

Is India’s BJP the world’s most ruthlessly efficient political party?

...“You cannot win in India by upper-caste patriarchy,” says Devesh Kapur, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University....

April 17, 2024

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