Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany says it will cut benefits to refugees facing deportation, part of a package of tough new measures drafted in response to last week’s terror attack in the western city of Solingen. Ministers also said
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I read about the latest proposals on visa waivers (Report, August 23) and enhanced passport bureaucracy at the Channel ports with a feeling of sadness and dread. The pleasure of a day out to France has diminished significantly in the past 20 years, long before Brexit. Delays sometimes of over an hour at border control
“It’s impossible to go to the store and buy a chair,” wrote Donald Judd in his 1993 essay “It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp”. This is, of course, nonsense. What he really meant was that “it’s impossible to go to the store and buy a chair that would look right in the world I
Governance arrangements at the combined authority in north-east England chaired by Conservative mayor Lord Ben Houchen have come in for more criticism from external experts, according to documents seen by the Financial Times. The Tees Valley authority, which oversees the Teesworks regeneration project, had failed to fully meet internal auditing standards, one independent review concluded.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Jr has withdrawn a $6bn bid to take control of Paramount, the latest twist in a chaotic saga over the Hollywood group’s future. Bronfman said he notified the Paramount board committee of
Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Computer chips power toys and control nuclear reactors. They are in phones, cars and planes, getting us to work and keeping us safe. And they are at the centre of a growing tech war between the
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In Leeds, Simon Goulding, who is about to buy his first home, has noticed how quickly the mortgage market is changing. In April, he was offered a loan worth 26 per cent of the value of the home, fixed for five years, at 4.9 per cent. Last week, after finding the right property, he could
By Jessica Rawnsley, Financial Times The rice is pastel pink. It has a nutty, umami aroma. A slightly brittle texture. But, most surprising of all, each grain contains beef cells. It is a hybrid rice, laced with muscle and fat cells and nurtured in a petri dish to create something novel: part cow, part grain.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The rise of streaming and the fragmentation of audiences increases the risk of falling valuations for sports rights, the executive behind Formula One’s Netflix series has warned. Sean Bratches, a former F1 and ESPN executive
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This is an audio transcript of the Rachman Review podcast episode: ‘Ukraine wrongfoots Russia in Kursk’ Ben HallHello and welcome to The Rachman Review. I’m Ben Hall, the FT’s Europe editor, standing in for Gideon while he’s on holiday. This week’s edition is about Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, a so far stunningly successful offensive that
Tej Parikh (“Taylor Swift and a fallacy vexing economics today”, Opinion, July 26) puts his finger on the problem, but only on part of it. Some activities are worse than merely “zero sum”. I remain amazed by the amount of time I spend dealing with organisations down the telephone while trying to sort out what
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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player AI’s energy use is set to rocket. That could not only constrain the industry’s growth, but threaten green energy targets and force AI providers to consider alternative sources of power. The International Energy Agency estimates global power demand from data centres, AI, and cryptocurrencies could double
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