In his letter “EU focus on protecting the consumer is stifling innovation” (September 30) Danny Leipziger is correct to highlight the importance of lowering barriers to entry and improving the ...

The £10 Christmas Bonus (“While we’re at it, let’s end the pensioner free bus pass”, Letters, September 18), introduced in 1972 and never increased since, let’s end this as well, providing a small but ...

Mario Rizzo (Letters, September 14) paints a dismal picture of academic economists engaging in anti-competitive practices (oh the irony), as a kind of intellectual (or at least mathematical) cartel.

Ben Hall writes that one theory why Austria is now marching to the far right is that the country presents itself “as the first foreign victim of National Socialism”, and therefore “lacks the same ...

Keir Starmer stops taking donations for clothes on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

US Treasury yields hit their highest level in several weeks, as traders and economy watchers ready themselves for Friday’s official employment report. The Federal Reserve chairs ...

Katie Martin The news from the Middle East is relentlessly grim and getting worse and yet markets are more or less taking it in their stride.

As the conflict in the Middle East expands to include Lebanon and Iran, markets are responding with surprising nonchalance.

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That much is down to a bravura flip Schimberg gives the script, keeping us off balance while questions spark from the film. Are we made or self made? Does what we see in the mirror ever really change?

At first, her summer is defined by intense romance with another young woman, but then — one night guzzling mushroom tea — she ...

Cut back to the very recent past, with Kenya’s Laikipia plateau suffering an extended drought. That exacerbates long-standing tensions between the region’s pastoralists — semi-nomadic herders — and ...