FirstFT: Starmer fights to save premiership
Also in today’s newsletter: Oil majors’ windfall and Reform UK plans
The best of TV and streaming this week
‘Legends’ is a nail-biting Netflix thriller; Lucy Punch returns in cosy comedy ‘Amandaland’; ‘Widow’s Bay’ is a superb horror comedy. Reviews by Rebecca Nicholson
China expanding its industrial dominance, warns US business group
Chamber of Commerce says west is running out of time to sever its growing reliance on Chinese supply chain
Transcript: Starmer fights for political survival
Victoria Craig talks to Peter Campbell and Lucy Fisher
Europe’s oil majors reap up to $4.75bn from trading on Iran war volatility
Trading desks at BP, Shell and TotalEnergies outshine US rivals
Top ECB official attacks German opposition to UniCredit’s bid for Commerzbank
Central bank’s outgoing vice-president Luis de Guindos says Berlin’s intervention goes ‘against spirit of single market’
NHS to grant Palantir contractors ‘unlimited access’ to patient data
Staff from consultancy firms drafted in to work on Federated Data Platform project set to benefit
American agriculture is broken
Fixing it will require much more than the new farm bill can deliver
India drives global rise in coal-based steel capacity
New blast furnace projects threaten to undermine shift to greener production elsewhere
Coal shipments jump as countries seek alternatives to disrupted gas supplies
Middle East conflict is driving many Asian nations in particular to turn to the carbon-intensive fuel
France’s crowded race to replace Macron
Fragmented field on left and centre boosts far right hopes for the Élysée Palace
Will the ECB shift tack on the digital euro?
Central bank appears to be shifting its focus more to wholesale markets
What should lift-off sound like?
The strange, soothing art of plane music
Hearn boxing and darts empire valued at over £1bn as US investor takes stake
Father-son duo sell 15% of Matchroom, which has been propelled by stars such as Anthony Joshua and Luke Littler
We need to protect Britain against the tyranny of the minority
Our first-past-the-post electoral system cannot handle the new era of multi-party politics
How AI mania is disguising big companies’ hit from Iran war — in charts
Biggest groups have gained $5.4tn in value since conflict began — but semiconductor sector accounts for most of the gains
Life without US tech
In Europe the reliance on American digital services is now so profound that daily life would almost cease to function without them
What would a Reform government do?
As Nigel Farage targets national power, his policies are still tangled in ambiguity and impracticality
Why London is English winemaking’s new hotspot
Urban wineries are turning pockets of industrial London into hubs of creative fermentation, their playful, low-intervention releases winning fans far beyond the capital
Airlines cut prices to entice holiday bookers worried about jet fuel
Companies locked in a ‘confidence game’ with consumers to persuade them to book
How fashion veered back into idealising skinniness
GLP-1s and a backlash against woke attitudes have dented the body positivity movement. Who stands to gain from it?
Labour should learn from Vienna’s Alterlaa social housing scheme
Affordable rents, children playing, 20 saunas and 14 swimming pools — no wonder there’s a five-year waiting list
How the UK can use the bond markets’ ‘kindness of strangers’
There is a way to reduce the risk of a run on gilts and decrease the cost of government borrowing
Britain’s bridging loan woes rattle US private credit firms
High-octane area of mortgage market under scrutiny following messy collapses