‘Production first, safety later’: inside the world’s largest nickel site
“Production first, safety later,” said a worker at Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, another Tsingshan unit operating at ...
Airbus struggles to capitalise on rival Boeing’s difficulties
With Boeing still reeling from the mid-air blowout of a section of one of its jets in January that badly knocked faith in the ...
UK property worth £6bn bought using suspicious funds
Almost £6bn of suspicious funds have been channelled through companies registered in the British Overseas Territories to ...
A stately hideaway on the edge of Edinburgh
Ten miles south of Edinburgh’s Waverley Station or about 20 minutes’ drive from its airport, on the edge of the small commuter town of Penicuik (pronounced Pennycook), lies the Penicuik Estate.
Inside Robert Kennedy’s fractious battle to fix America’s health
Kennedy, a scion of the storied Democratic family, has been among Trump’s most controversial picks given his goal of dismantling America’s health and pharmaceutical industries and bureaucracies — an ...
Transcript: Christine Lagarde interview
This is an edited transcript of a Financial Times interview with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde. The interview took place at the ECB’s Frankfurt headquarters on the afternoon of ...
Can Slaughter and May survive London’s US invasion?
Every autumn, partners at elite British law firm Slaughter and May are invited for the “paterfamilias” — a chat with the senior partner or “father of the family” — about their performance. The ritual ...
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman
A recent essay by Sam Bowman, co-authored with Ben Southwood and Samuel Hughes, argues that Britain has struggled over the past 15 years because it has “banned the investment in housing, transport and ...
Canal+’s blockbuster London listing
Vivendi prepares to spin off Canal+ for a London listing. Christine Lagarde says trade wars threaten global GDP. Sir Alex Younger, former head of UK’s MI6, discusses Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s ...
Keir Starmer to be invited to meet EU leaders in February
Sir Keir Starmer will be invited to meet EU leaders to discuss European security as Brussels seeks closer ties with the UK, in a significant post-Brexit move.
Tehran’s luxury glass apartments reveal a changing Iran
Tehran’s glass architecture is not just a matter of changing taste. Open facades symbolise a yearning for transparency. In a society where private freedoms have long flourished behind closed doors, ...
The gloom about the London market is overdone
Stripping out US tech giants significantly reduces the liquidity gap between London and New York stock exchanges ...