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Today, the number of available rental homes in London is 45 per cent lower than the five-year average. And the UK capital is far from an isolated case. Why is that? Two weeks ago, FT House & Home published a story unpacking the global rental squeeze — from the sudden return of demand following the

A plan is an abstract thing: a schematic representation of space in the most codified and flattened manner. Yet between those thin dark lines, so much information can be inscribed. “If anything is described by an architectural plan,” wrote historian Robin Evans in his influential 1978 essay “Figures, doors and passages”, “it is the nature

The sense of unease that permeates Interpret it Well, Ches Smith’s 10th release, is conjured with minimalist lines, vibrant tones and a strong collective will. It enters with sparse Craig Taborn piano and is sustained until the reverberating twang of Bill Frisell’s guitar fades the album to a close. Smith plays vibraphone on both short

Deutsche Telekom has nudged up its guidance for the year, mostly driven by a stronger than expected performance in its US business, as its first-quarter earnings rose almost 7 per cent. The German telecoms business upgraded its full-year earnings forecast on Friday, saying it expects to generate an adjusted €36.6bn before interest, taxes, depreciation and

Australia’s defence minister Peter Dutton has accused China of committing an “act of aggression” after a People’s Liberation Army naval vessel came within 50 nautical miles of a naval communications centre. Australia’s department of defence said the Dongdiao Class intelligence ship Haiwangxing had entered the country’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 miles to sea,

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Boris Johnson has set out plans to cut up to 90,000 civil servants — equivalent to a fifth of Whitehall — in order to reduce UK government spending. The prime minister told cabinet ministers to cut departmental headcounts during an away day in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday. Johnson told the Daily Mail that reducing the Whitehall

I first came to Milan when I was nine years old, in 1956 – before that I lived in Mantua. My father relocated here for work and our family moved into a two-floor flat in the Ticinese district. Things have changed tremendously since then. People used to say, “Oh, Milan is boring, nothing happens there.” It was

The American Library, Paris Nestled on a quiet side street under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, this was originally founded as part of an effort to get millions of donated books to American soldiers serving in the first world war, and has been a haven for expats ever since. Edith Wharton was among the library’s first trustees, while Ernest

For anyone who watches the stock market for a living, the recent car crash in tech stocks has been mesmerising. There are plenty of reasons to believe it isn’t over. This is not so much an issue for Big Tech, though the wealth erased since the start of the year is significant. Between them, the

Invesco has added two onshore Chinese equity exchange traded funds to its line-up, both of which will use swaps to offer a synthetic replication model. The Invesco S&P China A 300 Swap and Invesco S&P China A MidCap 500 Swap Ucits ETFs have been launched on exchanges in the UK, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. The

Soaring inflation and supply chain bottlenecks have begun to crack the $1.5tn US junk bond market, as the lowest-quality borrowers show signs of stress. Unlike the falling stock market, junk bonds had largely escaped worries over the US economy as surging prices add costs for companies. Many bond issuers were flush with cash because they

If you have colleagues, what do you think of them? Are they smart? Competent? Motivated? Open to new ideas? Good communicators? Do they work well as a team? The answer may not depend on what you think. And that fact suggests a reason why the modern world now seems so poisonously polarised. In the 1970s,

Although he has lived in Taos, New Mexico, since 1973, Larry Bell is still chiefly associated with the Light and Space movement that emerged in southern California in the 1960s. His early works epitomised the group: semi-mirrored glass cubes that, through their fleeting reflectivity, reacted to — as advertised — the light and space around

The Queen’s Speech this week paved the way for dozens of forthcoming parliamentary bills — but there was precious little to address the problem of soaring household bills. The absence of legislation for a windfall tax or any new measures to address the worsening cost of living crisis has left the government looking like it

Venture capitalists are ploughing millions into digital art, virtual land and online collectibles, the new frontier for investors seeking big returns in crypto. Digital items known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) burst into mainstream culture last year, quickly becoming a multibillion-dollar market ranging from computer-generated art pieces to cartoon characters costing thousands of dollars. Andreessen Horowitz

It was just after Christmas when we finally snapped. My partner and I decided we had to tell the world about our second child, who had been born four months earlier. It couldn’t wait any longer. Some friends already knew. But we’re millennials, so only a social media post could mint it with the currency

There can be few collectors in the world whose tastes range from Kangxi porcelain to NFTs and are still only in their thirties. But Los Angeles-based Jason Li, who left mainland China to study in the US, then founded and ran a China-focused sports agency, got the contemporary art bug and now has 1,000 non-fungible

The writer is an FT contributing editor The force lay in the symbolism. The parliament buildings at Stormont stood as the citadel of Protestant unionism. This month’s elections have left republican Sinn Féin holding sway in Northern Ireland’s assembly. The discomfort reaches well beyond unionism. The rise of the party that served as the political