Chinese equities and currency extend declines in rocky start to year
China’s equities and currency extended losses on Monday after a rocky start to the year, as weak economic data and ...
How Austria’s embrace of the far right could fracture the EU centre
Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) appears to be on a glide path to the country’s chancellery, after negotiations among centrist parties collapsed and the moderate conservative People’s party ...
Axes of evil: love’s uncharted waters
Match Group — the owner of Tinder, Hinge, and some forty other dating apps — hosted its first ever investor day in December. The tl;dr was that AI is going to save the online dating industry, and this ...
FirstFT: Private equity to lobby Trump as industry seeks to tap retirement funds
We begin the week with a report on the private equity industry, which is preparing to lobby Donald Trump’s incoming administration to give it access to broad pools of capital it has not historically ...
Why has Elon Musk reignited debate over the UK rape gangs scandal?
Elon Musk has reopened the national scandal surrounding gangs of men who groomed, assaulted and raped girls across England. In dozens of messages posted on his X platform over the past week he has ...
Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food
Finland aims to achieve the best financial literacy in the world by 2030, and projects such as Yrityskylä are a big part of the push. Already in 2018, Finland placed second financial literacy at ...
The infighting propelling Austria’s far right to power
Austria’s mainstream political groups promised to freeze the far-right Freedom party out of power after it won parliamentary elections last autumn. But the collapse of their coalition talks has put ...
Franz Ferdinand: The Human Fear album review — vintage glam pop and flashes of audacity
The rock band’s sixth studio album has suitable swagger with lead singer Alex Kapranos singing with a showman’s relish ...
Why people are rejecting shoelaces
Yet that recurring question of whether we are seeing the death (or at least, the demise) of shoelaces reached a new peak recently, after I wear-tested a pair of On’s brand new marathon shoes, which ...
House museums #98: Apsley House, London
The former home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and vanquisher of Napoleon still houses a preponderance of objects relating to the French emperor ...
What’s next for US Steel?
Eurozone economists warn the European Central Bank has been too slow to cut interest rates, and US Steel faces a bleak outlook after President Biden’s decision to block its sale. UK businesses plan ...
Nan Goldin as she was meant to be seen
Billed as the first exhibition to frame Goldin as a filmmaker, it focuses exclusively on six slideshows. In the 1970s and early 1980s the artist projected her photographs as montages in nightclubs to ...