Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the country’s election apparatus, in a move analysts said would damage democracy by handing his party greater control of the electoral system. The proposed constitutional changes, which will be sent to Congress on Thursday, would dissolve the country’s national electoral institute (INE), which
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Elon Musk is either a jester or a genius, if commentary since the world’s richest man bid $44bn for Twitter is anything to go by. But Musk’s loud and divisive personality, perfectly suited to the platform, risks diverting attention from bigger questions about who should control social media. No matter whether his audacious debt-fuelled bid
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Some of the world’s largest asset managers are clamouring for a slice of the action after China announced plans this month to push more of the country’s vast pool of household savings into financial markets. Under the new schemes, employees will be able to contribute up to Rmb12,000 a year ($1,860) to private pension plans,
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It was barely two weeks after Carillion’s 2018 collapse that the head of the accountancy watchdog — a body accused of being “useless” and “toothless” — called for an overhaul of the audit market. There was plenty of blame to go around. The construction company’s demise had left tens of thousands of staff facing redundancy,
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The US dollar surged to its highest level in two decades on Thursday as investors ramped up bets that aggressive interest rate rises from the Federal Reserve will leave other big central banks trailing far in its wake. The dollar index, a gauge of the US currency’s strength against a basket of other developed world
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Rishi Sunak, UK chancellor, has launched a consultation on radically changing the rules governing insurance companies, with the aim of allowing them to invest tens of billions of pounds more in infrastructure — including green energy. The government argues that reform of the EU’s Solvency II rules — and their replacement with a British regulatory
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This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. It is part of a special Climate Change for Schools report. Specification: IB DP TOK themes & AOKs The arts, History Relevant BQ Spin Key terms and ideas Represented, Contextualising, Unknown, Dynamics Investigating Issues decolonisation Exhibition
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This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Specification: Living costs, inflation, economic welfare, real wages Click to read the article below and then answer the questions: Cabinet split on plan to cut UK food tariffs as grocery bills rise 5.9% What is meant
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“Sent from heaven to finish all your educations” was how Walter Sickert defined himself in 1907 to young British artists. Aged 47, he had just completed his own education: a decade living between Dieppe and Venice, exhibiting in Paris, honing influences from his mentors, Whistler and Degas, before detonating European modernism in a domestic context
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