Transcript: Growth – and damn the consequences?
This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Growth – and damn the consequences?’ Lucy Fisher Growth has been the big theme of the week. Are you optimi ...
Letter: Opium and tea — the double whammy
In Joël Penkman’s article “Small plants, big business” about the rise of plant poaching (Magazine, Life & Arts, January 25) my eye was caught by the name Robert Fortune, who Penkman tells us “brought ...
Letter: Scotland’s famous philosopher saw the error of his ways
His physician, observing his emaciated state and scurvy spots on his fingers, diagnosed the “Disease of the Learned” and recommended that he take a trip to the continent. Happily, during his journey, ...
Letter: Techno-utopian thinking, not DeepSeek, is the threat
The instability induced by techno-utopian thinking is a much larger threat to investors than boring innovations like this Chinese artificial intelligence start-up. Ewan Dunbar Assistant Professor, ...
Letter: Urdu singer with the quicksilver voice
It brought back so many memories of my teenage years when I travelled to Pakistan in 1997 for my aunt’s wedding. My elder brother, a big fan of the Urdu singer, requested I bring back, as a gift, the ...
Letter: Reynolds sale should irk Britain’s art-loving public
But the nation’s art-loving public, and students and scholars of the history of 18th-century Britain, are impoverished. Harewood House in West Yorkshire, which we are told needs the money, has been ...
Letter: Remember, if you don’t grow it, you have to mine it
Without the mining industry, his quoted high-tech stocks would not exist if someone wasn’t there to dig the ores that make these companies possible. There is an adage: if you don’t grow it, then you ...
Letter: In a world awash with recipes, FT hits the spot
Harriet Fitch Little, the paper’s food and drink editor, is to be commended on her now nine-month-old quest to seek out the most “hand-on-heart brilliant recipes out there” (“The secret to a great ...
Barclays app outage deprives customers of banking services
Cyber attack discounted as UK high street bank hit by technical difficulties at critical time for many of its clients ...
FTAV’s Friday charts quiz
Email us your guesses with the subject line QUIZ, correctly spelled please. Entries are due on Monday, before 5pm in the UK. (Extra time because this was published on US hours this week.) Winner gets ...
Tenth of England’s farmland must be rewilded to hit climate targets, ministers estimate
About 760,000 hectares — or 9 per cent of England’s agricultural land — will need to “change away from agricultural land for ...
Musk’s mission to Mars
Colonising the red planet en route to creating “a spacefaring civilisation” has long been one of Musk’s driving ambitions — ...