The People of Sacramento Court

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Borderlands

The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe

...An EU-wide survey in 2021 found that 73 per cent of Portuguese people felt that the integration of immigrants in their local area was successful, well above the EU average of 42 per cent....

April 19, 2024

Edward Luce

The tyranny of America’s Supreme Court

...John Rawls, the political theorist, created a “veil of ignorance” to get people to imagine the rules of a just society....

March 6, 2024

News updates from April 2: Biden speaks with Xi, Fed’s Mester raises long-term rate outlook

Calpers names New Zealand sovereign wealth fund executive as new CIO

...The Sacramento-based pension fund on Tuesday said it picked Stephen Gilmore, a former chief investment officer of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, as the new CIO of the largest US public pension fund...

April 2, 2024

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

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

Employment

UK trade union law breaches workers’ rights, Supreme Court finds

...The unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court, which said there was a “complete absence” of protection against sanctions short of dismissal, means the government will have to decide whether to legislate to close...

April 17, 2024

Borderlands

How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants

...Court rulings in the US and Mexico have also put limits on authorities....

April 21, 2024

Labour Party UK

Labour shadow justice secretary defends UK’s membership of ECHR

...Shabana Mahmood, the Labour shadow justice secretary, has defended the UK’s membership of the European Court of Human Rights, describing it as a privilege that has “protected the rights of thousands of British...

April 21, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

Rana Foroohar

Tax justice is yet to hit the richest ‘citizens of the world’

...The question for the Supreme Court is whether taxing unrealised earnings is legal....

December 11, 2023

Centerview Partners LLC

Ex-Centerview banker did not clinch partner deal at meeting, US court rules

...At the end of a November court session Glasscock told attendees that the dispute was a “rather bizarre case”....

April 23, 2024

News updates from April 9: OpenAI and Meta ready new AI models; EU launches probe into Chinese wind turbine companies

Climate change ‘a threat to human rights’, rules court

...However, in another case against the Swiss government that went before the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday, the judges ruled that because climate change was a “common concern to humankind”, citizen...

April 9, 2024

ExplainerUK immigration

What next for Sunak’s plans to fly UK asylum seekers to Rwanda?

...He told reporters on Tuesday that the government had identified “the initial cohort of people for the first flights”....

April 23, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Letter

Letter: The video ref’s view of US Supreme Court infallibility

...In his piece on “The tyranny of America’s Supreme Court” (Opinion, March 7) Edward Luce continues with John Roberts’ sporting analogy, pointing out America’s chief justice has been “both player and umpire...

March 12, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

Robert Shrimsley

The ECHR needs saving from itself

...To nationalists, it is an unelected supranational body accumulating power and overriding “the will of the people”....

April 17, 2024

Private equity

Sports investor Arctos to focus on N America after raising $4.1bn fund

...as 2022 National Basketball Association champions the Golden State Warriors, the Utah Jazz and the Sacramento Kings....

April 20, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...HFEA data shows that in 2020-21 the average age of people freezing their eggs was 35....

March 23, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: Am I the asshole?

...I am afraid the same is true of all those people who write in to journalists for advice on their lives....

April 5, 2024

News updates from March 25: Boeing CEO to step down; UN Security Council calls for Gaza ceasefire

Suspects appear in court as Russia mourns concert attack dead

...A Moscow court has ordered the detention of four suspects in the largest attack on Russian soil in more than a decade as the country held a day of mourning over the assault, which killed at least 137 people...

March 24, 2024

InterviewVisual Arts

Artist Outi Pieski: ‘The world speaks to me through the details’

...In recent years some significant collections of items belonging to the Sámi people have been rehoused in their place of origin, including at the Sámi Museum Siida, in the Finnish village of Inari, where...

April 1, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The real quandary of AI isn’t what people think

...This week, I’d like to suggest a final precursor: the iPhone. When Steve Jobs launched the genre-defining iPhone in 2007, few people imagined just how ubiquitous smartphones would become....

February 16, 2024

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