The solution seems simple: playing “Ain’t No Pleasing You” by Chas & Dave on continuous repeat. Those who appreciate background noise, while contemplating a purchase, can enjoy a ditty from the ...

Shoplifting in the UK hit a record £2.2bn last year, alongside surging crime levels and rising violence and abuse against ...

Sentiment towards office buildings has been hit as landlords face big bills to upgrade old buildings, and by uncertainty over future demand. Analysts have also warned that the broader recovery could ...

German companies, particularly the carmakers, face huge market pressure in China. For years derided as producing cheap, clunky cars, Chinese manufacturers — admittedly heavily supported by the state — ...

But the reason I read the FT is due primarily to the fact that the FT is quite often the only paper of weight that states the facts as they are. Not as some might wish them to be.

Politics aside, we may very well look back on this period as a watershed moment not just for crypto, but for the future of business as a whole. At its core, tokenisation is a facilitator for openness ...

Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s Labour prime minister and, in particular, his chancellor Rachel Reeves talk a lot about the need to “hard wire growth”, but in the last Budget, Reeves did quite the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Falling exports and the winding down of production of older car models saw UK vehicle manufacturing fall by ...

Chile’s congress has approved a landmark reform to its private pension system whose meagre payouts fuelled disruptive mass demonstrations six years ago that roiled the politics of the prosperous South ...

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor. The San Francisco-based ...

Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan star in James Graham’s recreation of the 1989 interrogation of Margaret Thatcher by Brian ...

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith move from TV to the Wyndham’s Theatre with a fascinating, multi-layered piece ...