It’s Christmas week, and we will be devoting our last two newsletters of 2025 — we’ll be off from Christmas Eve through New Year’s— to looking back at the year that was. Today, we will reflect on the ...

Whatever your personal views, we can all agree that it’s been a year. For Alphaville, 2025 involved strawberry sandwiches, Sam Altman’s olive oil habits, Michael Saylor and lots and lots and lots of ...

The former IOC marketing chief and adviser to Formula 1 reflects on five decades at the centre of global sport ...

After a year of tumult, some are warning that a system built on neutrality, consensus and direct democracy is not moving fast enough ...

FT’s annual list of London’s best new restaurant openings of the year — a hat trick of coming to the same conclusion. It has been a bumper year for restaurant launches, despite the increasingly ...

In its 2023 plea agreement, Binance committed to conducting “real-time transaction-monitoring for suspicious or unlawful activity” and “periodic customer reviews for illicit activity, money and ...

Triton Partners sold assets for more than it had told original backers they would be worth after putting them into a continuation fund ...

Patrick Grant is the founder of Community Clothing, a judge on BBC television’s ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ and author of ‘Less’ (HarperCollins) ...

A strategy of returning to their roots is bearing fruit for companies, as consumers seek out well-crafted, affordable products ...

Asian chipmakers and European defence companies are among the biggest winners on stock markets in 2025 while US consumer stocks have suffered, as the artificial intelligence boom and Donald Trump’s ...

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, the first sea lord, told the Financial Times that Moscow was renewing investment in the Main Directorate of Deep-Sea Research (GUGI) team and that Britain could not afford to ...

David Ellison may already be in a stronger position than his father was in 2003. The Paramount bid is all-cash, fully financed and carries a clear headline premium, even if WBD disputes elements of ...