Letter: What’s easy for Mozart is hard labour for Beethoven
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Letter: Your restaurant critic never fails to move me
This week as I read his article (“The cult of St John”, FT Globetrotter, September 28), with all the details of the two people (restaurateur Trevor Gulliver and chef Fergus Henderson) behind the St ...
Letter: Taylor Swift concerts are 21st-century version of Veblen goods
From Ira Sohn, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, US ...
Letter: Whether UK power plants are saved is up to the locals
A few years ago, I was sleeping on a train from Sheffield to London when I suddenly awoke as we passed by the imposing cooling towers of the now decommissioned Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power ...
AI is coming for wealth management
Active wealth management tries to understand how to fit a vast array of products to changing life needs and circumstances. Providing tailored advice is expensive though. One of the biggest ...
Transcript: 100 days of Labour — Starmer’s stuttering start
This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘100 days of Labour — Starmer’s stuttering start’ Lucy Fisher Labour reaches a major milestone this week, 100 days. One word to sum it ...
Stockpickers: Pub groups prosper despite multiple challenges
The death knell for the British pub has been sounded many times. Pub numbers have dwindled from around 75,000 at the start of the 1970s to 45,000 now. Myriad pressures are behind the closures, ...
Live news: US urges Israel to ensure safety of UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon
Militants killed at least 20 miners on Friday morning in Pakistan’s Balochistan as violence rises in the mineral-rich ...
More women make rape and sex assault claims against Mohamed Al Fayed
Forty people have come forward with fresh allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed, including of rape and sexual assault, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Friday.
Firming up and shaking down
Monthly earnings growth in Japan slowed slightly in August. While nominal regular wages rose strongly, real wages fell again after two months of positive growth. Total monthly cash earnings rose at an ...
Sainsbury’s shares drop after Qatari group cuts stake
The Qatar Investment Authority sold about a third of its 14.2 per cent stake in the grocer in a private placing, according to messages sent by Goldman Sachs and seen by the Financial Times.
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Letter: Kardashian’s skim reading
Kim Kardashian, it seems, is a fan of the FT (“Under her Skims: inside Kim Kardashian’s $4bn apparel empire”, HTSI, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, October 5). In the accompanying photograph, I count a good ...