Introducing Slate Money: The Week of Minor Apocalypses
Slate Money hosts Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss a few things that have been circulating in the news ...
De Beers amasses biggest diamond stockpile since 2008 financial crisis
De Beers Group has amassed its biggest stockpile of diamonds since the 2008 financial crisis, laying bare the group’s ...
UK government art collection should be more visible to public, says minister
Founded in 1899, the Government Art Collection displays works of art in UK government buildings, including Downing Street, ...
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Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta plans to add displays to its ...
Giotto’s genius blooms afresh in Padua
Restoration of the biblical frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel reveals the Italian painter to be not just the maestro of human gesture and form but a brilliant botanical artist as well ...
US drugstores vanish as pressures mount on business model
Retrenchment in industry has led to concerns about the spread of ‘pharmacy deserts’ with limited access to medicines ...
Year in a word: Bro-caster
The manosphere’s podcasting heroes are the natural successors to radio shock-jocks ...
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Berlin cries Kulturkrise as cuts hit arts scene
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A performance of Verdi’s Macbeth last month at the Deutsche Oper briefly turned into a political protest, as a ...
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The Rest is Silence — standing the test of time
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first signs of trickery in Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence are an epigraph — wrongly attributed — ...
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The paradox of Christmas is what makes it so compelling
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an author of fiction, cookery books and poetry anthologies. Her latest book is ‘The Dinner Table’ ...
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Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Palantir and Anduril, two of the ...
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12 Days of Stories to Share
What are the FT stories from the past year that have really stuck in the minds of our journalists? The stories that challenged them, enlightened them, or simply entertained them? From Christmas Day to ...