Reeves to force council pensions to consolidate into 8 ‘megafunds’
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves is to legislate to develop eight pension “megafunds” as part of reforms to Britain’s fragmented local government retirement scheme that she claims could unlock £80bn of ...
Finding freedom in later life
Convenience, opportunity and freedom are the focus for a new generation of over-65s The over-65s are a rapidly growing age group and an increasingly healthy and wealthy group too. Data from the Office ...
lifestyle in later life
Riverstone is blazing a trail in the exclusive later-life market with a concept that goes beyond simply providing desirable private homes and extensive communal amenities. It has created a vibrant ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future
Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor ...
Liberals speak a different language
Gaslighting’, ‘cosplay’, ‘intentionality’ — the American left doesn’t realise how odd its sounds to most people ...
Three days with the true believers who won’t let Bigfoot die
The flyer, which Peter spotted at a tourist office in the spring, was just three inches square and advertised an event being held over a long weekend in July in the town of Oakridge, a 45-minute drive ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
The lawyer at the heart of the ferocious debate over assisted dying
Charles Foster believes he has a duty to defend against a state-sanctioned and medicalised means to self-obliterate ...
‘It’s postcolonial but doesn’t know it’ — a ‘Ballet Shoes’ for our age
As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...