Trump should call on Opec in his bid to negotiate with Putin
Enter Donald Trump. The new US president could call on Opec. He can pledge to ratchet up oil sanctions on Russia to the point where their impact becomes more acute: these would target not only ...
You’re Cordially Invited film review — Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon spar in wedding disaster comedy
Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The seas may dry up and the mountains fall, but nothing will stop the surge of films about wedding disasters. Somewhere ...
Saturday Night film review — nostalgia trip to birth of TV comedy forgets the funny
Try telling the story of American comedy without mentioning Saturday Night Live, and see how far you get. For half a century, the sketch show has been a cultural fixture, with countless cast members ...
The Dreamery, where grape meets gelato
Wine and ice-cream – two things that spark joy, though rarely simultaneously. But at The Dreamery, an otherworldly new wine bar and ice-cream parlour in leafy De Beauvoir Town, north London, they come ...
Companion film review — sex-bot turns on male owner in visceral comedy
Josh is harbouring a nefarious plan — poorly conceived, of course, coming from his soggy human brain — that involves reprogramming Iris as a controlled weapon. What he doesn’t realise is that, like ...
Afghan women need the world’s help
Funding should nurture the efforts of female-led, grassroots organisations to counter the Taliban’s restrictions ...
Sweden probes ‘foreign power’ link in death of anti-Islam activist
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim ...
Court rules Sanjeev Gupta owes $53mn to rival steelmakers
London’s High Court has ruled that a company in Sanjeev Gupta’s beleaguered metals empire owes $53mn to a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel.
Old-style pensions ‘gold’ isn’t easily mined. Starmer is right to try
There is no magic money tree. So the growth-starved UK government is scrabbling around for any cash lying unused in the system which might be put to productive use. The latest instalment is Prime ...
Fearless and Free by Josephine Baker — dancer, actor, singer, spy
She escaped the racism of her native America to find global fame in France. Her 1949 memoir, published for the first time in English, captures Baker’s joyful voice ...
ECB delivers quarter-point cut and little change in tone
ECB cuts the deposit rate by a quarter point to 2.75 per cent as expected and offers little shift in tone from December as it continues to move policy away from restrictive territory ...
Strong consumption drives US GDP growth in fourth quarter
Growth was driven mostly by household consumption, which rose at an annualised rate of 4.2 per cent in the fourth quarter — well above consensus expectations of a 3.2 per cent rise, and above the ...