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Why I will always love Canary Wharf
The business district in London’s Docklands demonstrates what innovation and invention can achieve
US inflation rose to 3.3% in March on Middle East energy shock
Increase in prices highest since May 2024 as Iran conflict triggers historic surge in petrol prices
Surge in fuel prices pushes US headline CPI sharply higher
Core inflation, which strips out energy costs, remained more stable in March
Australia’s unquenchable thirst for diesel tested by Iran energy shock
Armada of tankers sailing from as far away as the US and UK as reliance on imports from Asia in focus during supply crunch
A shaky ceasefire
After forecasting civilisational erasure, the US president announced a truce with Iran.
Six films to watch this week
Jim Jarmusch’s latest ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’; Camus adaptation ‘The Stranger’; a Scottish hip hop hoax in ‘California Schemin’’; Keanu Reeves lifts Hollywood comedy ‘Outcome’; and more. Reviews by Danny Leigh & Jonathan Romney
The biggest IPO in history has a hole in its safety net
RIP Section 11?
Is this America’s Suez moment?
At the very least, the war with Iran has been a strategic failure for the US
Dolce & Gabbana co-founder quits as chair of fashion house
Stefano Gabbana will remain in creative roles after stepping aside from management
Reid Wiseman, the astronaut hailing a new ‘golden age’ in space
As commander of Artemis II, he embodied the comradeship and ambition of the latest Moon mission
Squeezed Britain: student loans, salaries and strikes
Plus, PM places Iran war at heart of election campaign
FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 788
How will the Iran war impact China? You asked, we answered
The FT’s Joe Leahy and Cheng Leng replied to reader questions
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
FT Weekend Quiz: Signet Jewelers, U2 and The Simpsons grandpa
Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!
Annuities look more attractive in wake of inflation fears, say advisers
Benefits of a fixed and stable income set to play more prominent role in retirement planning
AI models lose their shirts on Premier League bets
Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI struggle when asked to predict scores over football season
Transcript: Opus Dei, Ep. 3 — Snow on the mountaintops
Antonia Cundy talks to sources inside Opus Dei
Biotech billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: ‘I’ve always been very unconventional’
The Biocon founder on building an Indian corporate powerhouse, weight-loss drugs — and how to get Bengaluru moving again
The best books of the week
From a portrait of Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court justice who helped unshackle Trump, to the case for free-market capitalism and how plastic trashed the planet. Plus the complicated, fascinating life of Jan Morris, Gwendoline Riley’s tale of toxic men, and other top new fiction
Plastic Inc — how the defining material of the modern age ended up trashing the planet
Beth Gardiner’s angry, well-researched book investigates a profit-driven industry and the environmental debts it imposes on generations
Binary Puzzle Number 104
Why is The Newt’s owner launching a garden festival?
Koos Bekker’s Somerset estate was the Chelsea Flower Show’s headline sponsor. Now he is taking matters into his own hands