How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties
Dyson Farming owns at least 36,000 acres, the group says, across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It ...
London bus crashes are the result of an unsafe model
My meeting was with an American businessman called Tom Kearney, who was on a pavement in central London one Christmas when he ...
H2O investors file legal challenge to €250mn FCA settlement
The FCA publicly censured H2O for failing to “carry out proper due diligence” on investments linked to the controversial ...
Wildlife is wonderful — but not in my back garden
The mild weather favours flowery Novembers but destructive animals are out in force. Plants that resist attack are the way to ...
The Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam review — spectacular designs but a fuzzy story
Wayne McGregor’s three-act works have obliged the conscientious balletgoer to read (or re-read) three Virginia Woolfs; The ...
Stockpickers: Telecoms groups caught in a technology capex spiral
BT has spent the past seven years sinking billions into its Openreach fibre-optic superfast broadband network. Soaring material and labour costs after the pandemic meant capex rocketed, but the ...
Killing the CAT: why a key regulatory tool is under attack from Wall Street
“If the CAT were taken out by the courts, we would have a big hole in our financial regulation. If you’re trying to catch people doing things like spoofing or manipulation or other sleazy stuff, you ...
British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...
The making of a year-round modern home in the Alps
As more international ‘digital nomads’ contemplate turning a ski-holiday retreat into four-season mountain living, resorts ...
EU judges grill Ursula von der Leyen’s lawyers over missing text messages
New York Times has sued European Commission over its refusal to release president’s exchanges with Pfizer chief ...
Friedrich Merz, the man who would be Germany’s next chancellor
Born in 1955 in the west German town of Brilon, Merz studied law and was first elected to the Bundestag in 1994. After ...
‘Hygge’ in your ‘hytte’: turf cabins lure the international ski crowd
Beloved by Norway’s naturalists, these retreats in the wilderness are riding the ‘coolcation’ trend as international buyers ...