Sentencing Council’s new guidelines are corrosive and unfair
‘Iniquitous’ | Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over ...
Thames Water selects KKR as preferred bidder
Thames Water has selected the US private equity group KKR as its preferred bidder to take control of the UK’s largest water ...
EQT teams up with Fortnox chair in bid valuing Swedish software group at $5.5bn
The bid, which values the company at $5.5bn, caps a tumultuous year for Fortnox, an accounting software specialist that operates only in Sweden. Former chief executive Tommy Eklund resigned in August ...
Theatre review: The Women of Llanrumney, Stratford East — a searing interrogation of slavery
The Women of Llanrumney sounds like a tale from the Welsh valleys — and in a sense it is. Azuka Oforka’s blistering first play focuses on a grim episode in Welsh history: involvement in the ...
American academics seek exile as Trump attacks universities
Professors flee elite US institutions in the face of what many characterise as a direct assault on education and science ...
Virgin Atlantic warns on signs of slowdown in US demand for transatlantic flights
Virgin Atlantic has reported a profit for the first time since the pandemic, but warned of early signs of a slowdown in demand for transatlantic flying from US consumers.
Marine Le Pen convicted of embezzling EU funds
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzling EU funds. The far-right politician is accused of misusing the funds between 2004 and 2016, when she was a member of the European ...
Israel orders evacuation of Rafah as it steps up offensive
The Israeli military said on social media it was “returning to intense operations” in Rafah, which lies beside the border between Gaza and Egypt. It ordered civilians to evacuate to Al-Mawasi, an ...
Bank of England plans to raise deposit guarantee from £85,000 to £110,000
The Bank of England has proposed raising the amount of money covered by the UK deposit guarantee scheme from £85,000 to £110,000 under plans that are likely to increase the contribution lenders make ...
My top 10: the best of Milan’s Brera museum by FT art critic Jackie Wullschläger
Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...
Trump has promised tariff ‘liberation day’. Americans aren’t so sure
President Donald Trump has called it “liberation day” — when global commerce will finally start to rebalance and the US will no longer be mistreated by its trading partners. But much of America is ...
Introducing Maker’s Mark’s revolutionary new whisky
It was the development of its first new recipe in 70 years, Star Hill Farm whicky, that led Maker’s Mark to make the switch to regenerative agriculture. The regime seeks to restore depleted soils ...