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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

...Countries agreed as part of the 2015 Paris agreement to limit global warming to 1.5C above preindustrial levels, or well below 2C....

April 21, 2024

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

World

Conflicts drive global military spending to record high

...Military spending around the world rose almost 7 per cent to a record $2.4tn last year, the steepest annual increase in 15 years, according to research....

April 22, 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

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

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

Israel-Hamas war

Israel’s head of military intelligence resigns over October 7 attack

...October 7 was the deadliest day in the history of the Jewish state, with Hamas militants storming through the barrier separating Israel from Gaza, before rampaging through villages in the south of the country...

April 22, 2024

News updates from January 2: Drone strike kills senior Hamas leader, Tesla overtaken as biggest EV maker

Indonesian stock market hits record high

...The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.7 per cent to 7,323.6, breaking through the previous closing high of 7,318 reached in September 2022....

January 2, 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

John Thornhill

War by algorithm raises new moral dangers

...john.thornhill@ft.com...

April 11, 2024

ObituaryJohn Bruton

John Bruton, Irish premier and diplomat, 1947-2024

...He claimed credit for helping unleash the Celtic Tiger boom, with annual growth during his term averaging 8.7 per cent and peaking at 11.1 per cent in 1997....

February 10, 2024

News in-depthUkraine military briefing

Military briefing: Russia’s narrowing advantage in Ukraine

...The defence ministry has admitted, however, it can only produce at most half of the 4mn 152mm-caliber shells and 1.6mn 122mm-caliber shells Putin’s military estimates it needs to break through....

April 26, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: A glow-up for China’s state-owned enterprises

...Here to talk to me about the air defences of both Israel and Ukraine is the FT’s John Paul Rathbone. Hey, JP. John Paul RathboneHi, Sonja. Sonja HutsonSo walk me through some of Israel’s defences....

April 17, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: NYSE canvasses clients for 24/7 trading

...We start the week with a scoop on the growing clamour for a 24/7 New York bourse....

April 22, 2024

Transcript

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

FT Live

Commodities Global Summit 2025

The pre-eminent gathering of senior commodity executives, traders and financiers

National Health Service

NHS strains set to drive private health insurance growth

...The waiting list for routine NHS hospital treatment in England has fallen slightly from a record 7.77mn treatments at the end of September to 7.6mn two months later....

January 12, 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

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses

...john.burn-murdoch@ft.com, @jburnmurdoch Letter in response to this article: Houston, we have a problem — and it’s housing / From Bridget van Akkooi, Wassenaar, The Netherlands...

February 23, 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

European prime property

Homebuyers find a quieter Côte d’Azur in its hill towns

...By the autumn, the price had been reduced to €1.95mn “Today, we’re talking about a price of €1.85mn,” he says....

April 25, 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

InterviewVisual Arts

John Akomfrah on exploring colonialism, migration and globalism through ‘bricolage’

...The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight....

November 9, 2023

ReviewBusiness books

Business books: what to read this month

...They include Sutton and Rao’s opening pop at a 1,266-word email (with a 7,266-word attachment) they and colleagues received from their own vice-provost....

January 30, 2024

EU defence

European defence spending ‘lacks urgency’

...While European defence spending grew 4.5 per cent in 2023, to reach an average 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product, Asian countries boosted their defence budgets by 4.7 per cent to hit an average 1.8...

February 13, 2024

John Gapper

Rolex has ended up in a Peruvian pile of bling

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

April 5, 2024

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