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You can enable subtitles (captions) in the video player I’m not sure this map shows Wales properly. Is it a brick? It’s some bricks. Sounds like something you say on election night. Godalming and Ash. How old were you when you dropped geography? OK. Just tell me where Hadrian’s Wall is on this. Welcome to

We wel­come Wopke Hoek­stra’s com­ments (“EU nom­inee for cli­mate chief wants global fossil fuel taxes”, Report, FT.com, Octo­ber 2) that he wants to explore an inter­na­tional mari­time levy on ships’ green­house gas (GHG) emis­sions on a global basis. Cur­rently, at the UN reg­u­lator for ship­ping, the Inter­na­tional Mari­time Organ­iz­a­tion, there is a pro­posal being dis­cussed

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Measure a business not by what has been put into it, but what can be taken out. Shareholders of the Hipgnosis Songs Fund and Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust will greet Benjamin Graham’s quip with a

The global market for generative AI will grow from $6bn this year to $59bn in 2028, new forecasts show, as the technology is deployed in industries ranging from marketing to insurance. Few software markets, if any, have grown as fast or produced as much excitement — and fear — as generative artificial intelligence. Supporters predict

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The jumbo scallops from the northern Japanese fishing town of Betsukai, on the island of Hokkaido, have a reputation for being among the most delicious on the planet, a cherished ingredient on a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conservative MP Bob Stewart has been found guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence after he told a campaigner to “go back to Bahrain”. The Tory MP for Beckenham, south-east London, was found to

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Western countries have clashed with Saudi Arabia over the role the kingdom should play in helping to kick-start a UN fund to help poorer countries deal with the loss and damage of climate change. A

I always think a key part of true friendship is being happy when your friend succeeds or does something to acclaim. It is often said that Britain and the US have a special relationship, a true friendship, and that is why I was surprised to see the FT suggest that by announcing its own AI

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK financial regulation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The former boss of the UK’s financial regulator has attacked the government’s plans for overseeing the crypto industry, warning that investors risked being harmed if crypto assets were labelled as regular investments. Charles Randell,

You quote the Lon­don Stock Exchange boss Julia Hog­gett, a former Fin­an­cial Con­duct Author­ity reg­u­lator, wel­com­ing the gov­ern­ment’s decision to scrap plans for tighter cor­por­ate gov­ernance (“Stricter com­pany dis­clos­ure rules shelved”, Report, Octo­ber 17). Hog­gett is quoted as say­ing that “ever increas­ing cor­por­ate gov­ernance pro­cesses” had “impacted the effect­ive­ness of lis­ted com­pan­ies and the stand­ing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lawyers are taught never to ask a witness a question to which they do not know the answer. That logic also applies to wartime alliances. Joe Biden has hitched his fortunes to a man —

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial is set to wrap up today, eurozone inflation fell to its lowest level for more than two years, and Odey Asset Management is to close after allegations of sexual assault and harassment

If looking at Judy Chicago’s art makes you uncomfortable, well, good. The essential 60-year retrospective at New York’s New Museum contains such an abundant supply of provocations, bloodied menstrual pads, gaping sexes, sarcastic needlework and other feminist flexes that it would make anyone break into a sweat. And yet the show is an exhilarating corrective,

Vladimir Putin vowed to “de-Nazify” Ukraine when his troops invaded last year. Now Russia’s president is under pressure to respond to the worst antisemitic violence to sweep his country in more than a century. The violent scenes across the North Caucasus last weekend, when an angry mob stormed an airport in Dagestan in search of

One altern­at­ive to lib­rary fines, which Sou­maya Keynes men­tions briefly in her column “Are lib­rary fines reach­ing their denoue­ment?” (Opin­ion, Octo­ber 20), is to tem­por­ar­ily block fur­ther with­draw­als for bor­row­ers who return their books late. This policy deserves greater atten­tion. I used to live in Andalusia in Spain, where lib­rary users are blocked from bor­row­ing

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A spectre is haunting US bond markets — the spectre of fiscal dominance. Wednesday will bring two big policy events: The Treasury Dept’s detailed refunding announcement, where it will announce its quarterly issuance plans by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Belt tightening and deleveraging are increasingly the norm for Spanish consumers. This is rational given interest rates at 20-year highs. A 55 per cent decline in new mortgage lending still surprised Unicaja shareholders on Monday.

The courage of the UN chief António Guterres is commendable; it is the courage of the truth and the voice of reason in times of madness (“UN chief denounces ‘clear violations’ of international law in Gaza conflict”, Report, October 25). It is never too late to do the right thing and stop this war. Innocent

You report that Rachel Reeves may well have copied various texts from Wikipedia and other sources, without attribution, for her book on female economists (Report, October 27). This has already led to criticism in the Tory press that she would be a “copy and paste” chancellor, if Labour wins the election. Surely there must also

The four-page supplement entitled “Investing in Japan” by Leo Lewis, Kana Inagaki, David Keohane and Melanie Gerlis is for the most part positive about the prospects for such investments, with one opinion piece by Bruce Kirk, Goldman Sachs’ chief Japan equity strategist, suggesting Japanese equities offer a “once-in-a-generation” buying opportunity (“It’s time for Japanese equities