US nuclear fusion start-up backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel secures $425mn
A US start-up whose backers include tech billionaires Sam Altman and Peter Thiel has raised $425mn to keep it on track to ...
The City Changes Its Face — Eimear McBride at the pinnacle of her craft
Since the publication of her justly celebrated debut A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing in 2013, Eimear McBride has been vocal ...
Iran rethinks confrontation with Donald Trump
US president’s return comes as conflict with Israel leaves Islamic republic at its most vulnerable point in years ...
Foxtons sales jump ahead of UK stamp duty deadline
The change is expected to more than triple the proportion of first-time buyers who pay stamp duty, according to estate agency ...
EU and Nato take vow of silence on Greenland
The EU and Nato have taken a vow of silence over Greenland after Denmark requested its allies refrain from reacting to Donald ...
The impotence of Trump’s words
Did his words and veiled threats have any meaningful effect on the oil price? No. Oil prices fell a little. But the move was small even in comparison with oil price movements this year and has since ...
Cloud services market ‘is not working’, says UK regulator
The UK competition regulator has found that competition in the £9bn UK cloud services market “is not working”, with Microsoft and Amazon each facing separate probes over their dominance of the market.
Trump and the Dr Strangelove experiment
That is the essence of the Dr Strangelove playbook — that acting the madman will scare your enemies into concessions. In the movie, budget-constrained US generals save dollars by nuking the Soviet ...
‘Brasil! Brasil!’ at the Royal Academy — it feels like summer in this sumptuous show
A pink manacá flower pirouettes on its petals, a mountain soars then swoops into the outline of a blue head and shoulders, and — although it is broad daylight — a sunset glares from within a monstrous ...
‘Sometimes I fantasise about climbing back down a rung or two of the property ladder’
Should you buy your dream home? In the same way that above a certain threshold, a bump in salary has no effect on happiness, moving to a bigger house above a certain size doesn’t increase wellbeing ...
The promise and peril of an offshore digital (government) dollar
Simply sign up to the Digital currencies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Vincient Arnold is a researcher at the Yale Program on Financial Stability and publishes research notes on his ...
UK law firm suspends trading after management disputes
RBG Holdings, which owns the law firms Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal, said on Tuesday that it had suspended trading on London’s Aim market after a “lack of progress regarding the various strategic ...