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Royal Mail
Royal Mail owner rejects £4.5bn takeover bid from Czech billionaire Křetínský
...The dispute, which included 18 days of strikes, helped to erode the company’s share of the vital parcel delivery market....
April 17, 2024
Houthi movement
The mysterious Iranian ship accused of lining up the next Houthi targets
...The Houthis, who control much of Yemen, are one element of the Iran-linked Axis of Resistance that has come to the fore since the October 7 attack that sparked the Gaza war....
March 9, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Condé Nast Publications
Editor of Vogue China to leave in latest senior Condé Nast exit
...The editor-in-chief of Vogue China, Margaret Zhang, has left the publishing group in the latest senior departure from the fashion magazine and its US owner, media group Condé Nast....
February 23, 2024
News in-depthShipping
Shipping industry turns to high-tech wings for faster decarbonisation
...The huge wing sitting in a corner of the Scottish port of Hunterston does not look like part of a ship — but the 20m-long device could be one of the shipping industry’s weapons to fight carbon emissions....
April 21, 2024
Supply chains
Mediterranean ports warn of overflowing storage yards in latest threat to supply chain
...Nabil Boumezzough, president of the management board of Tangier Alliance, operator of the TC3 container terminal in Morocco, said the terminal had this year been operating consistently with its yard nearly...
April 23, 2024
News in-depthShipping
Surge in maritime violence boosts demand for private security forces
...The vessel is currently off the coast of Iran, after spending three years in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden....
April 21, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Royal Mail
Shareholders of Royal Mail owner hit out at Křetínský’s ‘insulting’ approach
...Royal Mail holds a share of about 25 per cent of the UK parcels market by revenues, topping the likes of Amazon Logistics, DPD and DHL....
April 19, 2024
How To Spend It In...
Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC
...Then I’d kick back with friends and contemplate the beauty of western civilisation. I’m in awe of Washington, this handsome city, the cultural capital of the USA....
April 24, 2024
National Archives
Margaret Thatcher signed off on top secret ‘Spycatcher’ leak to journalist
...Margaret Thatcher authorised a leak of secret intelligence that helped trigger the so-called Spycatcher affair that plagued the then-UK prime minister throughout her time in office, according to declassified...
December 29, 2023
Royal Mail
Royal Mail proposes to halve second-class deliveries
...The ideas were part of the legacy mail delivery company’s submission to a review of its obligations being undertaken by Ofcom....
April 3, 2024
Angela Rayner
Police launch probe into claims Angela Rayner broke electoral law
...Giving false information is an offence under section 13D of the Representation of the People Act 1983. However, the act imposes a time bar of a year for the launch of any prosecution....
April 12, 2024
Royal Mail
Heathrow executive recruited to lead Royal Mail turnaround effort
...The owner of Royal Mail has appointed Heathrow airport’s chief operating officer to run the UK’s legacy mail-delivery company, after nine months of seeking to fill the post....
April 2, 2024
News updates from April 3: Iger defeats Peltz in Disney proxy war; Eurozone inflation falls to 2.4%
Second-class deliveries would halve under Royal Mail proposals
...Royal Mail has said there is an urgent need for reform because of the sharp fall in letter volumes over the last 20 years, which has made many of its basic services uneconomic....
April 3, 2024
Shipping
Hedge fund takes on shipping magnates over oil tanker deal
...“The company would have had to proceed with the case for years and years, incurring a lot of costs, keeping the company in deadlock for an indefinite period of time and all of this, for a very uncertain...
April 11, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: What can I do when my employees are afraid to speak up?
...Isabel Berwick Margaret, what do you think? Margaret HeffernanIt is really important to look at the other side of the coin. And I’ve seen this, you know, in my own companies....
April 3, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
News in-depthRoyal Mail
Robot arms and the humble postie: how Royal Mail plans to deliver
...The task of improving the competitiveness of the parcels business will be one of a series of challenges facing Emma Gilthorpe when she takes over as chief executive of Royal Mail later this year....
April 5, 2024
Undercover EconomistTim Harford
Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago
...A key difference is that Moore’s Law is a function of time, but Wright’s Law is a function of activity: the more you make, the cheaper it gets....
April 26, 2024
Margaret Heffernan
Why more executive careers should start in a parish council
...The sole purpose of the council is to serve residents — 1,000 of them — and we answer to their interests. There aren’t any real politics....
April 15, 2024
Margaret Heffernan
For young people, the job search has never been so miserable
...But of course, the applicants aren’t the customers — advertisers are....
March 28, 2024
Personal Finance
A mid-life inheritance: handling a painful windfall
...A mixture of high house prices, parental thrift and the prosperity of the postwar baby boom generation means thousands of people in the UK face such decisions every year....
March 1, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #51: Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio
...“You can really get a sense of the impact that Wright had on American architecture as a whole from the smaller community of Oak Park, how some of these ideas about open floor plans and organic design emerged...
January 20, 2024
Markets InsightWilliam Wright
The British Isa is a welcome step back to the future
...Given the provenance of the idea, it was surprising to see the ferocious pushback against the much more modest proposal to restore part of that quid pro quo....
March 14, 2024
Shipping
Somali pirates seize ship as global naval forces focus on Houthi threat
...The attack follows a warning in an interview last month by the head of the International Maritime Organization, the UN body for maritime affairs, over the threat of a resurgence in piracy....
March 12, 2024
Mergers & Acquisitions
Yodel to be sold off in latest unwinding of Barclay family interests
...Parcel delivery company Yodel is to be sold to a consortium that includes the owner of logistics group Tuffnells in the latest unwinding of the debt-laden financial interests of the Barclay family....
February 13, 2024
Democracy6 min
Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024
...When a government fails to deliver basic necessities the result is either the toppling of power or a brutal crackdown. So says history. Democracy, by Margaret Atwood. Imagine a circle....
January 17, 2024

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