OFFICE OF THE HIGH REPRESENTATIVE

April 3, 2024

Former Post Office executive denies misleading High Court

...A former Post Office executive has denied misleading the High Court over the extent to which she knew about remote access in the Horizon scandal, despite receiving multiple briefings about the issue over...

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders

Post Office scandal exposes ethical dilemmas of general counsel

...leading up to the 2019 High Court case....

April 23, 2024

UK politics

Low uptake of heat pumps slowing efforts to decarbonise Britain’s homes

...The National Audit Office said moving households away from fossil fuels to heat their properties was one of the “biggest challenges” the government faces as it tries to put the country on course for its...

March 18, 2024

UK politics

Free childcare plan risks lowering standards in England, says watchdog

...In a critical report, the National Audit Office on Wednesday said infant care could be compromised by a substantial “influx of more inexperienced staff”, as well as changes in supervision ratios for two-year-olds...

April 23, 2024

FT MagazineOliver Roeder

The riddle of the Premier League goal boom

...It even amended its Law 7, “The Duration of the Match”. In essence, the moves are meant to disincentivise time-wasting. But the dramatic irony of the policy is its stretching of time....

April 12, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

HTSI

High jewellery – a study of the classics

...As the Bulgari brothers once told her: “Always look at the archive, with an eye projected on the future.” Chanel High Jewellery white-gold and diamond Lion Solaire de Chanel necklace....

April 15, 2024

Correction

Correction: Office for Budget Responsibility

...The Office for Budget Responsibility has warned that freezing fuel duty in the long run would cost the Treasury £6.3bn by the end of the decade, not more than £8bn as wrongly state in an article on...

March 19, 2024

Working It

Secrets of perfect panel moderation

...Office Therapy The problem: My line manager is refusing to let me take part in a company-wide volunteer programme with local community groups....

April 17, 2024

News in-depthAustralia

Australian strikes hit 8-year high as unions make up for ‘lost time’

...Despite wage growth hitting a 14-year high in the third quarter of last year, he said: “The cost of living is hitting everyone.”...

February 7, 2024

LexNatural gas

The worst of the gas glut is over for US drillers Premium

...Together they accounted for almost all of the 4 per cent increase to a record high output last year, according to the US Energy Information Administration....

April 8, 2024

Working from home

The banks on the frontline of the remote working battle

...At the other end of the scale, staff at the UK’s NatWest are expected to work in the office just twice a month, with 95 per cent adopting a hybrid approach and staff coming into the office on average once...

March 4, 2024

News in-depthPost Office scandal

Former judiciary chief warns on Post Office mass exoneration

...of disclosure and could lead to the Post Office opposing hundreds of appeals....

April 5, 2024

Transcript

Transcript: Office politics — how to play the game

...And actually, some of the rituals I’m thinking of our own office — you know, the tea run....

February 27, 2024

Correction

Correction: Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance

...The Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance won a High Court case against the Post Office in 2019, rather than a High Court appeal as incorrectly stated in several recent articles on the Post Office scandal...

January 16, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Post Office scandal

Former Fujitsu executive steps down from Cabinet Office role

...Michael Keegan will leave his post as a crown representative at the Cabinet Office....

January 26, 2024

News updates from January 26: ICJ grants South Africa’s request for emergency measures in Gaza, US core PCE dips below 3%

Former UK boss of Fujitsu leaves Cabinet Office as software supplier comes under fire in Post Office scandal

...His departure was revealed in an update of the Cabinet Office site. The Cabinet Office declined to comment. Read more here...

January 26, 2024

News in-depthMike Johnson

Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conversion on aid for Ukraine

...The advertisement was paid for by Razom, a Ukrainian human rights group, and appealed to Johnson’s deep Christian faith — and his power as Speaker of the House of Representatives to secure billions of dollars...

April 24, 2024

UK immigration

Sunak’s Rwanda asylum scheme could cost UK £580mn, watchdog warns

...compared to high hotel accommodation costs”....

March 1, 2024

Working It

New workers’ rights incoming

...Now we have to be in the office on certain days. Our manager is aware but has their own office so they don’t get the full “effect”....

March 25, 2024

Post Office scandal

UK Post Office sought to double chief executive’s pay package

...Read, who was appointed to lead the business in 2019, is one of a number of individuals who are the subject of an internal misconduct investigation, the Post Office confirmed on Tuesday....

February 28, 2024

John Thornhill

The bitter technological lesson of the Post Office scandal

...Ed Davey, now leader of the Liberal Democrats, was one of 17 postal affairs ministers to have held the role while the scandal unfolded. Davey now accuses the Post Office of a “conspiracy of lies”....

January 11, 2024

Stephen Bush

Why won’t the Tories talk about their success in education?

...Given that the Conservatives have conducted a high number of policy experiments since 2010 with a low number of unalloyed successes, you would think the government might be inclined to shout about this one...

March 6, 2024

Post Office scandal

Post Office scandal victims call for the ‘truth’ as next phase of inquiry begins

...One of the key pieces of evidence to come to light since was a 2017 report by auditors Deloitte, which was not disclosed in the 2019 High Court case....

April 8, 2024

Office for National Statistics UK

UK statisticians threaten strike action over back-to-office mandate

...Staff at the UK’s statistics agency are threatening strike action after being ordered back to the office as part of a wider ministerial clampdown on homeworking across the civil service....

March 14, 2024

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