Reactions to the Ambani wedding show we have lost our distaste for fortunes on extravagant display
Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead
Disruptions in the sector are forcing some green energy developers to defer key projects
Short-term contracts leave Baku unable to raise investment needed to meet demand from bloc, says Azeri envoy
Heller Tools exported machinery to entities linked to a covert FSB smuggling network
Financial services veterans call on chancellor to prioritise increasing minimum workplace pension contributions
Hedge funds and investors lured by high interest rates, but flows could leave country vulnerable to a shift in sentiment
Political upheavals in France and the US are causing anxiety in Berlin
Plus, The Hundred looks to lure big money investors
With the French capital poised for the Olympics, two new books seek to expose the social challenges that have long existed at the margins of the city
Of all Europe’s old powers, Spain alone has had a good century
Social media makes professionalising your passions all too easy but this puts the joy of amateurism at stake
With bottles of Moët and Louis Vuitton trunks never far from sight, the Parisian conglomerate’s brands have already made their mark on the Games
Her attempts to give the French capital a green makeover have made her unpopular but unrepentant
Returning Italians and rich foreigners lured by tax breaks bring newfound energy to financial centre
Starmer’s new envoy wants to see Britain ‘reconnected on the world stage’
GB Rowing team are going to great lengths to avoid repeating disappointing performance of Tokyo Games
Conviction of Wall Street Journal journalist seen as potential prelude to prisoner swap
Anthony Hopkins stars, but this sprawling series is let down by a laboured script and too many digital effects
After a peak pandemic surge, interest in the sector has dried up
Rate-setters’ confidence that they will hit 2% goal indicates rate reduction at next policy vote is increasingly likely
In the first of a new series, the designer and ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ judge enlists a pair of Oxford Sandy and Black pigs to clear his tangle of bramble
It’s no surprise that social platforms are the go-to place when industry communications appear designed to obfuscate
Also in this newsletter: what a lithium mine in Serbia tells us about European geopolitics