Valuations at Elon Musk’s SpaceX and xAI set to soar in new deals
On Tuesday, Trump appointed Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and former presidential hopeful, to lead a new ...
British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...
Starmer vows to ‘stay the course’ on tax-hiking Budget measures
Speaking at the Welsh Labour conference, Starmer will insist that the Budget — which included a £25bn national insurance ...
Elon Musk’s mission to reinvent American government
Donald Trump has given the billionaire the task of slashing the size of the state. Similar efforts have fallen far short in ...
How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties
Dyson Farming owns at least 36,000 acres, the group says, across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It ...
H2O investors file legal challenge to €250mn FCA settlement
The FCA publicly censured H2O for failing to “carry out proper due diligence” on investments linked to the controversial ...
Wildlife is wonderful — but not in my back garden
The mild weather favours flowery Novembers but destructive animals are out in force. Plants that resist attack are the way to ...
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Nissan to warn jobs at risk as UK EV targets push car industry to ‘crisis point’
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nissan plans to warn ministers that the UK car industry has reached a “crisis point”, with jobs and ...
The making of a year-round modern home in the Alps
As more international ‘digital nomads’ contemplate turning a ski-holiday retreat into four-season mountain living, resorts ...
Rupert Murdoch’s UK news group settles with almost 40 claimants over alleged phone hacking
A cast of almost 40 public figures have reached settlements with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers over allegations of ...
Cannes prizewinner Payal Kapadia: ‘In India identity comes in the way of a lot of things’
The director of ‘All We Imagine as Light’ discusses big city lives, urban migration and Mumbai’s violent gentrification ...
Letter: Recalling Waugh’s critique of a socialist Utopian state
They live in a Utopian socialist state untroubled by the ardours and asperities of private enterprise.” It was written in 1930, by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh in his travel book Labels. Plus ça ...