Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden he will work with Donald Trump to manage US-China ties
Xi Jinping told Joe Biden that China was prepared to work with the new administration of Donald Trump to manage differences ...
Sunday Number 67: World Puzzle
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Oil boss Chris Wright named as Donald Trump’s energy secretary
Donald Trump has nominated shale boss Chris Wright as energy secretary, a role that would put the oilman at the heart of the administration’s drive to loosen restrictions on the fossil fuel industry.
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 ...
Trump ushers in Europe’s high-stakes moment to defend Ukraine
Radchenko has studied the talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials in March and April 2022, which scoped out the broad outlines of a peace deal (although it was never clear whether either Putin ...
North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems
Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region for an assault involving North Korean soldiers to push out ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics
There is no question that the pandemic was an unparalleled peacetime crisis and one that derailed Johnson’s government. But as Shipman notes, the seeds of his destruction were also ever present and in ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
How Egon Schiele ‘felt and found the divine’ in nature
Now the museum has supplied me with a less familiar, more appealing side of him to contemplate. Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes presents the painter venturing into the open air. A few photographs show ...
The ski-in art crowd bringing cultural highs to resorts
It’s easy to see why prime property mountain villages are increasingly seductive prospect for galleries – but the benefits are a two-way play ...