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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks, read by multiple narrators (Penguin Audio, 15hrs 56mins) Knightshade: The Lathe of Firefall is either a grandiosely ambitious title for a film or a piece of portentous fantasy-speak, but it’s lucky that we don’t have to find out. Instead, Hanks has imagined, in minute

Danish power group Ørsted is set to press ahead with its major UK offshore wind project despite rising costs, but warned that the British government needs to do more to support the sector. Ørsted’s chief executive Mads Nipper said the company was working “very hard” to make viable its planned Hornsea 3 project off the

What is your earliest memory?Sitting on the floor, my mother doing the ironing, and on the radio was The Tremeloes playing “Silence is Golden”. My mother said, with some asperity: “If silence is golden, why don’t they shut up?” Who was or still is your mentor? The late editor of Nature, John Maddox, chose me

In 1967, an enterprising Swiss tourism officer called Claude Nobs decided that if he built a first-rate music festival, the world’s greatest musicians would come. Three-part documentary They All Came Out to Montreux recounts how Nobs turned his culturally prosaic but picturesque Swiss lakeside town into an annual Mitteleuropean Woodstock, where legendary artists from Aretha Franklin

Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu took office in May as a continuity choice from his predecessor’s party. Yet less than three weeks later, the 71-year-old has come out swinging. He has scrapped fuel subsidies, ceased to bolster the currency and suspended the heads of the central bank and anti-corruption agency, prompting investors to welcome the burgeoning

European gas prices have doubled in just 10 trading days, highlighting how the market still remains on the edge over the continent’s gas supplies despite storage levels at record highs for the time of year. In Thursday trading the price of the European gas benchmark Title Transfer Facility (TTF) rose as much as 27 per

Hello everyone, this is Akito from Singapore. In the spring of 2019, I was in Shanghai to cover the biannual motor show. I will never forget the words of a Nissan engineer who had just announced a new electric vehicle for the Chinese market. “EV production without Chinese-made parts is no longer possible,” he said.

Cloud gaming makes perfect sense. Instead of hardware, the processing power required can be run on remote cloud servers, meaning players can stream games. Assuming high-speed internet connections are available, gaming could attract a far bigger audience if untethered from pricey consoles. Yet multiple attempts to launch streaming for video games have failed. OnLive debuted

Politics does not get simpler than this. American voters are likely to face a choice next year between a criminal defendant vowing retribution against his pursuers and another man. It will be a referendum on the rule of law. Should the first man win, he will probably escape prison for his multiple alleged crimes. Should

With a swath of tax breaks and hints at more loans for small businesses, Chinese state planners this week started to respond to a problem already felt by many consumers and investors: the country’s economic recovery is in trouble. After months of disappointing data, economists and traders expect China’s government on Thursday to cut the

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. We all want to achieve more – and produce better work – without spending more time at our desk. Isabel Berwick asks senior FT columnist Tim Harford how best to tackle the problem of productivity. Tim

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I read it somewhere over the weekend and thought, “Fair enough.” I heard it from a colleague, and went, “OK, but . . . ” By the time non-political friends were saying it, I knew the idea was so widespread that it must be shaky. This is the claim that Britain is in better civic health than America. And

Regarding the National Audit Office report on making tax digital (“Watchdog hits at HMRC over making case for digital tax”, Report, June 12), as a retired accountant I can see the case for more electronic reporting of information. But I have never seen the reason for the quarterly reporting of information for income tax purposes,

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Opposing camps within Britain’s governing Conservative party exchanged blows on Sunday as fallout from the unexpected resignation from parliament of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson continued. Grant Shapps, a senior cabinet minister, defended the Tory-dominated committee of MPs that is expected to condemn the behaviour of Johnson this week — insisting they should be

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. In this third episode of Martin Wolf’s series, the renowned FT columnist and economist speaks to the journalist and historian Anne Applebaum, who has written extensively about the history of communism and the development of civil

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This is an audio transcript of the FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘The UK companies acting like the police’ Lilah Raptopoulos The other day, I was reading a magazine story by my colleague Kadhim Shubber. And it kind of confused me because it went against everything I understood about prosecuting a crime. We know how it

Smoke from Canadian forest fires spread across the central and eastern US on Thursday, disrupting air travel as well as work and school routines for the second consecutive day. Millions of people in cities including New York, Philadelphia and Washington woke up to air pollution from the fires, leading them to put on masks used