Out of work and unwell: the worrying rise of young people on benefits
Few countries have seen as sharp an increase in young adult ill health as the UK, where the share of 16- to 24-year-olds ...
Postcard from Ireland: Why fans of Antarctic adventure beat a path to a pub in County Kerry
My sister’s a different story, but not myself now.” We’re talking in the Kerry County Museum in Tralee, beside an exhibit dedicated to Tom Crean, with a dozen images of the Kerryman looking down on us ...
Four Points of the Compass — how north, south, east and west defined the world
Jerry Brotton takes an intriguing look at the cardinal directions and what they tell us about the Earth and its inhabitants ...
Louis Fratino would like to get intimate
Collicelli Cagol recognises something similar in Fratino’s studies. “He is capturing things that are strikingly beautiful, but simple in a way,” he says. “They are sometimes the things we miss every ...
The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power ...
How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law
Plus, Palestinian villagers in the West Bank are experiencing heightened violence after Hamas’s devastating October 7 assault on Israel. The FT News Briefing is produced by Niamh Rowe, Fiona Symon, ...
Are you paying too much for insurance?
Advisers say a third of people take out the wrong kind of protection insurance, leaving many with overlapping — or inadequate — cover ...
The New Nature of Business — billionaire learns how to sweeten the pill
The heir to the Roche pharmaceuticals dynasty on how corporate power can be harnessed in the quest for sustainability ...
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The business of football: the big data arms race | FT Scoreboard
Burnley Football Club training ground, host to the annual International Youth Tournament. And nestled next to the pitches is a lab that is part of the wave of change that over the last decade has been ...
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Inside the ‘killer cell’ factory
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia 14 years ago. The initial prognosis was ...
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Ukraine’s new infantry recruits ‘freeze’ in face of Russian onslaught
Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For six gruelling days earlier this month a small team of experienced Ukrainian soldiers managed to withstand ...
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What does your mantelpiece say about you?
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Everyone gets worked up about how much you can tell from a bookshelf, but of all the areas of a home, the ...