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“If you’ve read my novels, you already know absolutely everything about me,” wrote Martin Amis in Inside Story, his 15th and final novel, published in 2020. But in saying that, the British writer, who died at his Florida home on Friday, at the age of 73 of cancer of the oesophagus, was only continuing the

The writer is chair of Rockefeller International Something is rotten in the Chinese economy, but don’t expect Wall Street analysts to tell you about it. There has never been a bigger disconnect, in my experience, between some of the rosier investment bank views on China and the dim reality on the ground. Perhaps reluctant to

Everyone wants a slice of the electric vehicle market. Carmaking is not only a big employer, it has also long symbolised a nation’s manufacturing prowess, from British Minis to Italian Ferraris. As the sector goes electric to meet climate change targets, the US, EU and China have been thrust into a race to build up

Downing Street has defended the UK home secretary Suella Braverman following reports over the weekend that she asked civil servants to help her avoid speeding points on her driving licence. Braverman was caught speeding by the police last summer, as first reported by the Sunday Times newspaper. The minister, who was attorney-general at the time,

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought to win over Brazil and India at the G7 summit in Japan, where he called on leaders to unite behind his proposal to end Russia’s war. Zelenskyy said there was a need for “the clear global leadership of democracy” to counter Moscow’s aggression, in a speech addressed to G7 leaders,

Climate experts criticised the G7 group of advanced economies for failing to commit to tougher action on fossil fuels after Germany and Japan prevailed on the continued use of gas and coal respectively. In their final communique, the leaders of the G7, including the UK, US, France, Italy and Canada, said they were committed to

Vladimir Putin has hailed his first major victory since the early days of the invasion of Ukraine, claiming Russian forces had captured the eastern city of Bakhmut despite Kyiv insisting the battle “was not over”. Russia’s president said the paramilitary group Wagner had seized the Ukrainian city with help from Russia’s armed forces after a

This time last year, Jamie Dimon was preparing for the bank’s investor day at a rare moment of weakness, with shareholders raising concerns over the bank’s $15bn investment plans and rebelling against his pay. Fast forward 12 months and the longest-serving big bank chief executive on Wall Street is heading into the same event having

When Arthi Raghu was suddenly laid off from her sales development job the other week, she went straight on to LinkedIn to write a guide to surviving the first crushing 48 hours of losing your job. So far so normal, except for one thing: the company laying off Raghu — and more than 700 of

Facebook’s parent company is in talks to create a multiyear agreement with augmented reality start-up Magic Leap, as the social media giant continues to pour billions of dollars into its ambition to create an avatar-filled online world called the metaverse. According to people familiar with early discussions, Meta is exploring ways in which Magic Leap

The new chief executive of Rolls-Royce has said that one of the company’s key divisions had been “grossly mismanaged” in recent years, pointing to the scale of the challenge facing the FTSE 100 engineering group as it seeks to change course after years of underperformance. In an interview with the Financial Times, Tufan Erginbilgic, who

Nationalist party Sinn Féin swept to a better than expected victory in local council elections that were widely regarded as a vote on the region’s post-Brexit stalemate. “Historic change is happening and Sinn Féin is leading that change right across Ireland,” Michelle O’Neill, the party’s first minister-in-waiting, said in a statement after her party became

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has “set back” China’s ambitions to invade Taiwan, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said. In a wide-ranging interview at the FT Weekend festival in Washington on Saturday, the one-time Democratic presidential candidate, who served as America’s top diplomat under Barack Obama, offered stark assessments on Russia’s invasion of

British author Martin Amis has died aged 73, according to his publishing house. Dubbed ‘the erstwhile Mick Jagger of British letters’, Amis had a privileged background as the son of novelist Kingsley Amis. Yet he was drawn to the seedy underbelly of society. His publisher Vintage Books said Amis had defined “what it meant to

Salman Rushdie is working on a book about the attack that robbed him of his right eye, he said in one of his first public appearances since he was repeatedly stabbed onstage at a literary festival in upstate New York last year. Speaking at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington on Saturday, the novelist, 75,

EY has extended the tenure of its UK boss Hywel Ball, allowing him to work beyond the firm’s mandatory retirement age of 60 and launch a cull of its executive leadership just weeks after the collapse of a plan to split its global business in two.  Ball’s future had been cast into doubt after his

Hedge funds have been upping their bets against Greece’s government debt as the nation heads to the polls this weekend, as they become concerned about the possibility of political paralysis after the election. The total value of Greece’s bonds borrowed by investors to wager on a fall in prices — known as shorting — hit

The G7 has issued its strongest condemnation of China, as the world’s most advanced economies step up their response to what they say are rising military and economic security threats posed by Beijing. In broad criticism of China over everything from its militarisation of the South China Sea to its use of “economic coercion”, the

Cancer patients’ chances of survival are falling because of treatment delays in England as staff shortages force doctors to choose which patients they can treat promptly, a group of expert clinicians has warned. The Royal College of Radiologists, along with professional bodies representing cancer physicians, nurses and pharmacists, have written to Steve Barclay, UK health

Is there no problem, these days, which can’t be fixed by the state? When the cry goes up “Why doesn’t someone do something about it?”, that someone is almost always government. Labour’s plan to give staff a “right to disconnect”, to stop bosses contacting them out of hours, feels like a classic of the genre.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy will take his pitch for support beyond his western allies with a scene-stealing appearance at the G7 summit on Sunday, confronting the leaders of India and Brazil after they chose not to back sanctions against Russia. The Ukrainian president’s first visit to Asia since the war began will bring him face to face