Europe urgently needs a dose of Franco-German couples therapy
The chickens have come home to roost — there is a huge hole in France’s budget. This may not come as a surprise to European observers of successive French governments’ loose interpretation of fiscal ...
Evening Standard kept afloat with £44mn in loans from Evgeny Lebedev and other investors
Lebedev — who with his father Alexander, a former banker and ex-KGB agent, bought the Evening Standard in 2009 for just £1 — is the largest shareholder in the company, although a minority stake is ...
Less offshore secrecy is central to any boost from wealth taxes
A UK transparency levy would kick-start global efforts to make it harder to conceal business ownership and beneficiaries ...
Trump would not weaken the dollar, says adviser Scott Bessent
Potential Treasury secretary also insists former president’s threats of large tariffs are bargaining positions ...
Leonard Bernstein’s opera A Quiet Place finally gets the performance it deserves — review
In a moving scene at the start of last year’s Oscar-nominated film Maestro, an elderly Leonard Bernstein sits at the piano, ruminating over his life. The piece he is playing comes from his late opera ...
UK bookmakers don’t want to (and probably won’t have to) pay more tax
Sources familiar with the discussions said the Treasury had yet to make a decision but appeared receptive to tweaking the UK’s complex regime of betting and gaming duties to raise extra funds of ...
South Africa’s first Black central bank governor dies aged 65
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Lenders get creative to finance small businesses in developing markets
Since starting business two years ago, Bababos has attracted more than 400 small manufacturers as clients, and is now generating monthly revenue of about $1.2mn. Its non-performing loan rate is ...
The Place of Tides by James Rebanks — an elegiac tale of the ‘duck women’ of the far north
The Shepherd’s Life’ author leaves behind the Lake District to seek sanctuary and renewal on a remote Norwegian archipelago ...
The search for a sustainable spoon (that doesn’t suck)
In the UK and EU, your throwaway spoon is now most likely made from paper, wood (probably birch) or something like bagasse (a compostable sugarcane by-product) like those found at London fast-food ...
Bridge: Side-suit length and quality far more valuable than kings
When West leads 10â™ , providing neither major divides 5-1 or worse, all is easy. Ignore any thoughts of rapid discards and rely instead on the two long suits. Winning with Kâ™ , declarer should lead a ...
Why the UK is failing to catch up with fraudsters
The UK must equip law enforcement to tackle increasingly sophisticated criminals and give victims confidence to report ...