“If the CAT were taken out by the courts, we would have a big hole in our financial regulation. If you’re trying to catch ...

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 ...

Dyson Farming owns at least 36,000 acres, the group says, across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It ...

Donald Trump has given the billionaire the task of slashing the size of the state. Similar efforts have fallen far short in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

From Liam Tuite, Dublin, Ireland ...

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 ...

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 ...