Between them, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris spent $3.5bn in the race for the presidency ( Report, November 6). Regardless of the outcome, can anyone rationally believe that was money well spent?

Congratulations to Sarah Flannery on her incisive letter (October 28) about Britain’s high speed rail project and the pipe dream of private funding of the line from Birmingham to Manchester. I ...

While we had a presidential election in the US on November 5 (the result of which I don’t know as I write this), I wonder whether what is going on in China might be more important. I thought much the ...

An art­icle on Novem­ber 6 repor­ted that Lukoil, the Rus­sian energy group, had writ­ten to the office of Rus­sian Pres­id­ent Vladi­mir Putin out­lining plans to sell its Bul­garian oil refinery to ...

Trump’s post about Haley and Pompeo comes after he made his first big appointment on Friday, choosing Susie Wiles, his top political adviser and strategist, to be White House chief of staff.

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State the estimated number of people who lost their lives in the recent Spanish floods Identify two reasons why residents in Valencia were caught unprepared by the flash floods Explain the link ...

Economists surveyed by LSEG predict GDP data on Friday will show a quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 0.2 per cent for the three months to September. That is below the 0.5 per cent in the previous ...

This article, part of the free FT Schools programme, won the 2024 Young Economist of the Year competition run in partnership with Discover Economics. The authors attend The Tiffin Girls’ School. The ...

After scooping up hundreds of millions of pounds of Thames Water’s debt from panicked asset managers willing to sell at a discount, Paul Singer’s Elliott is now one of several hedge funds engaged in a ...

Increasing numbers of UK interiors brands are “peddling their wares” with a village-fete style verve – both broadening their ...

Premier League football clubs are targeting stadium upgrades to boost revenues as England’s top 20 teams aim to reap the benefits of rising ticket demand and reduce the reliance on income from ...