District councils face scrapping in major overhaul of English local government
It is likely to mean the scrapping of all district councils to create larger, single authorities of around 500,000 ...
Will Bank of Japan raise rates in December?
The Bank of Japan has a knife-edge decision at its December 19 meeting, in which it could justify another 0.25 percentage ...
FT Weekend Quiz: Firth of Clyde, Cadbury Heroes and Sophie Ellis-Bextor
In a current box of Cadbury Heroes, the three items that are purely chocolate are Dairy Milk, Wispa — and what? Which British ...
Let’s put financial literacy on the breakfast menu
This Christmas, the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (Flic) has teamed up with another charity, Magic Breakfast ...
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Saudi Arabia’s next power play
It’s a crucial weekend for Manchester City. The Premier League champions are up against arch-rivals Manchester United tomorrow. City are fourth in the domestic league table, nine places higher than ...
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It’s time for a shift in approach to carbon credits
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four years ago this month, former ...
African electricity debate pits speed against scale
On Wednesday, ExxonMobil revealed plans to build its first commercial gas power plant to supply electricity directly to an ...
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Five winter-flowering plants to bring joy to the world
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Snow, floods, midday temperatures ...
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Israeli strikes on Lebanon must be ‘investigated as war crimes’, says Amnesty
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli air strikes in Lebanon that ...
The Split creator Abi Morgan: ‘I’m trying to make people feel less alone’
The screenwriter on the draw of life’s ‘messy stuff’ and why the time felt right to rekindle her divorce drama ...
Labour-aligned think-tank urges Keir Starmer to set UK immigration target
A think-tank with close links to Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour administration has called on the government to set a numerical target on immigration into the UK, despite the prime minister dismissing ...
The race to make the greatest Christmas ad
When Bisley’s friends think of her, they often think of Christmas too. For her hen do, someone dressed as a giant electrical plug after the breakout star of “The Big Night”, the first Christmas ...