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 ...
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 ...
Letter: Schemers, sycophants, ideologues and billionaires
The president-elect’s residence, with its opulent interiors designed by the Austrian émigré architect Joseph Urban — also a theatre set and nightclub designer — provided a fitting backdrop for a ...
Letter: Why Germany needs a transformation strategy
Harold James’ FT Books essay ( November 9) mentions John Kampfner’s 2020 book Why the Germans Do it Better which was surely the clearest “sell” signal any country ever got. The question now is whether ...
Letter: Israel editorial is spot on, but alas a year too late
Your editorial “Israel’s spiralling offensive” (FT View, October 26) is spot on, but should have been printed a year ago, when Benjamin Netanyahu’s intentions were clear to many of us, at a time when ...
Letter: Important distinction that is not just semantics
The semantic notion underlying emotion is an ancient one. Latin used the phrase motus anima, literally “movement of the spirit”. In other words something implying authenticity.
Apple upgrades Ireland’s credit rating outlook
Even without the €14.1bn about the enter the country’s state coffers, regular corporate tax receipts will still hit about 2.8 per cent of national income — the highest in the eurozone, S&P notes. But ...
Letter: Chopsticks at dawn!
My Hong Kong-born wife and I were shocked and surprised (respectively) by the Lunch with the FT article with the sinologist Li Cheng at the iconic China Club in Hong Kong ( Life & Arts, October 26) in ...
Letter: Deft or daft — a judge’s antitrust handbag ruling
The deft (or should one really say daft) decision handed down by US Judge Jennifer Rochon to “provisionally” block Capri’s $8.5bn acquisition of the pocketbook company Tapestry will surely avoid Capri ...
Letter: Audiobook pros and cons
From Liam Tuite, Dublin, Ireland ...
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 ...
EU or US? UK plays piggy in the middle
Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Tamara Kormornick. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Audio mix by Sean McGarrity and original music by Breen Turner. The broadcast engineers are Andrew ...