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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    EU immigration
    Eight migrants die in English Channel as tragedies mount

    French government laments this year’s ‘terrible’ toll, said to be worst since 2018

    A damaged migrants’ boat after a failed attempt to cross the Channel led to the death of eight people near the beach of Ambleteuse, northern France
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    UK employment
    Employers could sidestep upgrade of UK workers’ rights, government warned

    Simplifying employment status will be key to success of Labour’s measures, say lawyers and unions

    People protest in London’s Leicester Square with a banner reading ‘No to zero hours’ as part of a campaign for higher wages in 2018
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Saving Grangemouth jobs tests Scotland’s shift to net zero

    ‘Project Willow’ draws up alternatives for refinery ahead of planned 2025 closure

    Night view of Petroineos Grangemouth petrochemical plant and refinery in Scotland
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Labour has no plans to lift ban on prison officers striking

    Government ministers reject calls to repeal legislation despite union warning the decision would be seen as a betrayal

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    What Taylor Swift and Oasis can teach us about the economy

    The music industry’s shift from product to performance foreshadows a widespread move towards intangible assets

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Addison Lee
    Addison Lee drivers prepare to strike over pay and conditions

    Private hire and taxi provider is latest gig economy business to come under pressure over workers’ employment status

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK energy
    North Sea output to halve by 2030 under Labour tax proposals, warns report

    Wood Mackenzie says sector risks being ‘fatally wounded’ by the government

    A view of a jack up oil rig and semi submersible platform, during cargo operations with supply vessel
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Alex von Tunzelmann
    Kitsch, pompous and nostalgic: why honorific statues are so bad

    Often the pet project of a zealous sponsor, they tend to go untested with the public until their unveiling

    A statue of Queen Elizabeth II, created by artist Anto Brennan, stands alongside an earlier work of Prince Philip in Antrim Castle Gardens, Belfast
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Delayed Transpennine rail upgrade reviewed again ahead of Budget

    Electrification of Manchester-Leeds route being studied for potential cost savings

    A TransPennine Express train
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden indicates shift in Ukraine’s deployment of Storm Shadow missiles

    Washington had feared that using weapons risked escalating conflict with Russia

    Tornado GR4 aircraft carrying two Storm Shadow missiles under the fuselage
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    London scraps funding for Euro 2028 stadium upgrade in Northern Ireland

    Hilary Benn blames move on ballooning cost of rebuilding Belfast’s Casement Park for Uefa tournament

    Panoramic view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tories pay £2,000 to cling on to ministerial red boxes

    The souvenirs have become collector’s items, with Margaret Thatcher’s selling for £242,500 at auction

    Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Harland & Wolff Holdings PLC
    Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff probes £25mn ‘misapplication’ of funds

    Interim executive chair says he has launched an ‘independent’ investigation

    Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Political Fix podcast36 min listen
    A terminal diagnosis for the NHS?

    Plus, the battles ahead in party conference season

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The rise of tourist taxes

    Revenues can help make mass travel more sustainable

    People sunbath and swim at the beach of Monterosso in the Cinque Terre National Park, near La Spezia, nortwestern Italy
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    House & Home
    Painting the Moon: ‘It felt as exciting as exploring a foreign country’

    For four years, artist Tor Falcon trudged out in all weathers to make regular portraits of our nearest heavenly body — and learned a lot about how it shapes our nature.

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Climate change
    UK court quashes Cumbrian coal mine plan

    Decision to block first new colliery in 30 years highlights shift away from fossil fuel projects under Labour government

    An artist’s impression of the proposed Woodhouse Colliery
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    LexUK banks
    Higher bank taxes would be an economic own goal Premium content

    Taxation can affect banks’ ability to lend

    Rachel Reeves delivers a speech at the Treasury in London.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia expels 6 UK diplomats over spying allegations

    Moscow’s move comes ahead of talks between Keir Starmer and Joe Biden on war in Ukraine

    Moscow skyline featuring the Saint Basil's Cathedral with its colorful onion domes, the Spasskaya Tower with its clock, and other historic buildings with spires and domes.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer has convinced people of the dire challenge but he must respond with action

    Labour hopes to exceed people’s rock-bottom expectations, but recent poll suggests it must do more to win confidence

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Vodafone Group PLC
    UK regulator demands changes to £16.5bn Vodafone-Three merger

    Competition and Markets Authority says deal could lead to higher bills for tens of millions of customers

    Pedestrians walk past a closed-down Vodafone store in central London
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    John Gapper
    Rolls-Royce is on a smoother flight path at last

    The UK aircraft engine manufacturer is starting to live up to its distinguished name

    Rolls Royce jet engine and logo
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    And the Budget changes most feared by FT readers are . . . 

    Attendees of the FT Weekend Festival are selling assets and passing on inheritances ahead of October’s Budget

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    ExplainerUK public finances
    Why is Reeves considering changes to the UK’s government debt target?

    Chancellor is exploring tinkering with Bank of England bond accounting

    A montage of stacks of coins, a yard stick used as a line graph and the logo of HM Treasury
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Lawyers usher in City of London’s new dawn

    Law firms have been central to the biggest revamp of Britain’s capital markets in decades

    A picture taken with a drone shows the Tower of London and the City of London financial district in London
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