Receive free UK tax updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK tax news every morning. Are promises of “tax cuts” credible in British politics today? The short answer is: “no”. The long answer is: it depends on what one means by tax cuts. It is certainly possible to
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On Tuesday night, AC Milan will host Newcastle United for the opening Champions League game of what many pundits have badged this year’s group of death. The tie pits an Italian side owned by a US private equity firm against an English team backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The other two teams in
Receive free Coronavirus updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Coronavirus news every morning. The chief of the World Health Organization has urged Beijing to offer more information on the origins of Covid-19 and is ready to send a second team to probe the matter, as the genesis of
Receive free Share buybacks updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Share buybacks news every morning. Share buybacks on the US stock market have dropped to the slowest pace since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic as rising interest rates undermine the incentive for companies to purchase their
Receive free Parenting and families updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Parenting and families news every morning. I don’t remember exactly when the thought struck me but at some point this year I realised that if employers did an audit to see how many of their staff were
Receive free Social affairs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Social affairs news every morning. The internet is moving from an age of prurience to one of protection. A sudden rush of age-verification laws designed to stop children from accessing explicit content is about to change the way
Receive free Chinese business & finance updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Chinese business & finance news every morning. The Chinese shadow bank at the heart of concerns over missed payments to customers has lent money to several of the country’s struggling property developers, according to a Financial
Receive free Global trade updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global trade news every morning. Turkey is in “intensive negotiations” with regional partners over its alternative to the India-Middle East trade corridor plan that was agreed at this month’s G20 summit, as the country seeks to bolster its
Some western Balkan leaders are growing increasingly frustrated that Ukraine is leapfrogging their countries in the EU accession process, adding further delays to their decades-long efforts to join the bloc. “I have nothing against Ukrainians,” Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić told the Financial Times. But the EU’s level of support for Ukraine, granting it EU candidate status
In March, Tim Cook was among the first batch of foreign executives to land in Beijing to court high-level officials after the lifting of pandemic-era restrictions, with Apple’s chief lauding how the company and China had grown together in a “symbiotic relationship”. Six months on, that relationship is under strain. Apple is facing new competitive
Receive free Arm Ltd updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arm Ltd news every morning. Arm’s $5bn initial public offering this week was the most expensive in fees for five years, earning a $84mn windfall for the professional services firms that advised it, including Deloitte. The SoftBank-backed chip
Receive free European Investment Bank updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest European Investment Bank news every morning. Germany’s ruling coalition is split over who to support in the race for the leadership of the bloc’s biggest lender, as EU finance ministers discussed the issue on Saturday. Chancellor Olaf
Receive free Daniel Křetínský updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Daniel Křetínský news every morning. Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský has entered the auction to acquire the UK’s Telegraph Media Group, joining bidders including Daily Mail and General Trust, people close to the process said. Křetínský, a lawyer-turned-energy tycoon
Chinese defence minister Li Shangfu told a China-Africa security forum in Beijing last month that the world was entering a new period of “instability”. Just over two weeks later, officials and experts outside China are raising questions about the durability of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s cabinet, after Li became the second high-profile minister to disappear
Receive free UK society updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK society news every morning. A longstanding dispute over membership of one of London’s most exclusive clubs has reignited after a lawyer who said that women could be excluded from the Garrick Club changed his mind. The gentlemen’s
Receive free SoftBank Group Corp updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest SoftBank Group Corp news every morning. SoftBank is on the hunt for deals in artificial intelligence, including a potential investment in OpenAI, after the blockbuster listing of UK chip designer Arm bolstered Masayoshi Son’s multibillion-dollar war chest.
Receive free Indian election updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian election news every morning. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his party are seizing on a publicity boost from hosting the G20 summit last weekend to kick off a busy campaign season that will culminate with national
Receive free Rugby updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Rugby news every morning. France’s sports minister is so eager to “reconcile” with England fans irritated by poor organisation at Rugby World Cup games that she will attend their next match on Sunday to monitor security, transport and even
Receive free UK infrastructure updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK infrastructure news every morning. As the UK reeled from revelations of unsafe bubbly concrete in schools this month, construction experts who had gathered in Prague to celebrate the material were frantically gleaning details of the scandal engulfing
Let’s make this clear up front. I don’t know any personal secrets about Bernard Looney and in an ideal world none of us would want to. The BP chief executive quit this week after admitting he had failed to fully disclose his past relationships with work colleagues. His resignation came after the oil company received
Receive free Keir Starmer updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Keir Starmer news every morning. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour party leader, will pledge on Saturday to boost Britain’s standing in the world and repair “the smouldering cinders of the bridges the Tories have burnt”, as he seeks