Last year Helene Bevilacqua, a senior associate at consultancy PwC, swapped her role in London for four months working in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Philippines intends to buy intermediate-range missile launchers from the US, a plan likely to trigger more ...

Increasing numbers of UK interiors brands are “peddling their wares” with a village-fete style verve – both broadening their ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum has limited leverage despite the country being the largest trading partner of the US ...

Blahnik left the architecture practice she had set up with her former husband almost a decade earlier to join the family business, thinking: “If I can build a building, I can probably build a shoe”.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This summer, Polish bakery group Putka started offering English classes to ease communication among its ...

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The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen to a six-year low, figures uncovered by the Financial Times have revealed. Known in tax circles as ...

The problem with minimising the role of luck is that it underplays the likelihood that it can go the other way. The truth is effort or talent can’t make you wholly immune from misfortune. Divorce, ...

The writer is an author of fiction, cookery books and poetry anthologies. Her latest book is ‘The Dinner Table’, a collection ...

All three of the country’s major industries are in crisis, and the economy is flatlining. Are politicians finally waking up?