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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. HTSI editor Jo Ellison © Marili Andre And so we have reached the final issue of HTSI 2023. First, a thank you. Every week we are encouraged by your amazing feedback: it’s an absolute pleasure to have

My personal style signifier is colourful silk Nehru suits, which I’ve worn since I first visited India in 1982. My very first was made for me in the city of Vrindavan, near where Krishna came from. I always wear one of my big jewel brooches made from mirror and resin, and Bukharian kippah-style hats. To

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Trade disputes myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The EU is set to extend its truce with the US over steel tariffs imposed by Donald Trump until after presidential elections next year. European trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told the Financial Times he was

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Fears recently arose that the future of Aardman Animations might be in jeopardy, as the ingenious British studio was in danger of running out of its favoured brand of modelling clay. While Aardman sets about replenishing

In the span of just one week in October 2021, some of the world’s biggest private equity groups — Blackstone, KKR and Apollo — collectively poured more than $3bn into buying music.  Blackstone announced that it had set aside $1bn to buy music in partnership with Merck Mercuriadis’s Hipgnosis investment trust, noting his “vision and

Cold War Almeida Theatre, London Anya Chalotra and Luke Thallon in ‘Cold War’ © Marc Brenner There’s a grand piano centre stage for much of Rupert Goold’s beautiful production of Cold War. In its way it’s a battleground itself: the focus for much of the pain, hope and longing in the story, which weaves through

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government has been unable to demonstrate taxpayers were getting value for money from the £259bn spent on public procurement in 2021-22, according to across-party group of MPs. In a damning assessment published on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thames Water is facing more than £1bn in debt repayments next year just as MPs heighten their scrutiny of the utility’s financial health. About £1.17bn worth of loans, private placement and bonds are expiring in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Senior judges have warned the judiciary in England and Wales to restrict their use of artificial intelligence in conducting legal research and to avoid divulging information about cases to online chatbots. Official guidance published on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German football clubs have backed a move to bring in private equity investment after two previous failed attempts, as they seek to increase the value of broadcast rights and develop a global audience. Private equity

Claer Barrett’s piece (Opinion, December 2) on the rise of cheap “takeaway” funerals was dismaying. That “a good funeral is better than a bad wedding” remains axiomatic in Ireland — where death, once seen as a passport to heaven (or hell), is increasingly understood to be a secular extinction in need of cheering up. A

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s small business lobby has asked the country’s top financial regulator to intervene over “harsh” banking practices that it says are forcing entrepreneurs to put their homes at risk unnecessarily. The Federation of Small

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The catering and hospitality sector is renowned for long hours, low pay and high pressure. But since the double shock of Brexit and the pandemic, operators have had to be more flexible, not only to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s state health insurance system has lost tens of millions of subscribers, as higher costs have put one of the world’s largest healthcare schemes out of reach for many people already struggling in a post-pandemic

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers are set to shift more civil servants out of London, including relocating 200 officials from the department responsible for tackling climate change to a new office in Aberdeen, Britain’s oil and gas capital. The

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier. Which character from British folklore is also the title

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has dramatically raised the stakes in his country’s border dispute with Guyana, ordering state companies to exploit contested oil and mineral deposits and redrawing official maps after claiming an “overwhelming” mandate

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the World myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get it sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning Good morning. Nikki Haley came under

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A partisan divide between US lawmakers was on display on Wednesday over whether new international rules intended to prevent another global financial crisis would provide a buffer for banks or improperly weigh down the

This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘Could COP28 catapult the carbon credit market?’ Michela Tindera FT climate reporter Kenza Bryan has been keeping her eye on an interesting company recently. It’s called Blue Carbon. Kenza Bryan Blue Carbon is really a baby company. It was only set up last