French voters began casting their ballots on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election in which far-right leader Marine Le Pen is mounting a strong challenge to the incumbent Emmanuel Macron. A victory for Le Pen, who is sceptical about the EU and Nato and has in the past boasted of her ties
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Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. In the second episode of this season of Tech Tonic, James Kynge, the FT’s Global China Editor, asks how significant Chinese intellectual property theft has been to the country’s rise as a global tech superpower. We
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Just over a week ago, the United Nations made an announcement that prompted a biting put-down from a climate journalist named Megan Darby. “Ban the UN from naming things. I’m serious,” wrote Darby, after the UN launched an anti-greenwashing unit that it called the “High Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State
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Lars Wingefors’ 13-year-old self would approve of his recent purchase: Dark Horse Media, one of the biggest independent comic studios in the world and home to iconic titles including Hellboy and Sin City. Thirty years ago, while studying at a secondary school in Sweden, Wingefors started selling second-hand comics and by 18 he had dropped
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Oleg Chaban, a Ukrainian psychiatrist, has witnessed at close quarters the emotional devastation caused by Russia’s war against his country. The head of psychology and psychotherapy services at Bogomolets National Medical University in Kyiv recalled a recent patient who just two days earlier saw her only child, a toddler daughter, die when the bus on which
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Adaptation Making changes to deal with the effects of climate change — both now and in the future. This includes building infrastructure such as flood and fire defences, developing crops that can cope with new climatic conditions, and exploring new ways of cooling buildings. Air/Atmosphere While oxygen is critical to life on earth, it is
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You saw some surreal things during the autumn/winter 2022 fashion shows earlier this year. I don’t just mean the spectacle of challenging garments paraded six months before they go on sale — though there’s definitely something surreal about that. But rather surrealism in the sense the writer André Breton intended it. As he wrote in
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The temptation of a fantasy dinner party is to invite great people from history. This will only end up with you disappointing your heroes. You get a story about the time you met Marie Curie, and she goes home with an anecdote about meeting someone “a bit thick” who spent the entire time googling radiation
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There aren’t many people who can claim to have been involved in the wine and hospitality business for 50 years and none who can claim they spent eight years before that in the civil service overseeing, inter alia, the merger of Britain’s two national airlines BEA and BOAC, followed by a stint as a management
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