Elon Musk is wrong to call positive discrimination “openly racist” given South Africa’s history. But the practical impact of a requirement that his Starlink company relinquish 30 per cent of its ...

America’s wealthiest tech billionaires added more than $550bn to their combined net worth this year, as they benefit from an investor frenzy around leading artificial intelligen ...

A group of architects is finding and restoring the experimental mid-century homes hidden on the Massachusetts coast. Marcel Breuer’s ‘crown jewel’ is the latest ...

The groyper meme is a fatter and smugger-looking version of Pepe the Frog, an earlier alt-right hate symbol. Unlike most of the Maga base, groypers are openly antisemitic. Fuentes’ chief rallying cry ...

In a recent memoir, Life and Death of the Medellín Cartel, Lehder recounts in messy detail his ascent from car thief to drug lord — and says he now thinks they may have “sinned by misusing the coca ...

Sweeping crackdown on alleged labour abuses in nationally cherished industry poses big questions for fashion elite ...

Philip and William Taubman offer a fair-minded account of the former US secretary of defence, emotionally ruined by a conflict of his own design ...

The country is taking a huge bite out of the European and US market with ever-growing production of luxury foods ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is set to be covered by a UK Treasury indemnity of about £800mn during its loan to the British Museum in 2026, in a sign of the extraordinary value attached to the 70-metre fabric ...

Iranians in the business of Persian rugs — which are renowned for their artistry and craftsmanship — said instability in the region had also contributed to the collapse. Production of the rugs, whose ...

But of £6.5bn in total planned cuts, only £500mn has been earmarked for 2025-26, before accelerating rapidly with £4.8bn to be cut in 2026-27, suggesting the real crunch will begin in the second half ...

Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s second-in-command, told the Financial Times that the EU was destined to lose a “race to the bottom” as she championed tough Brussels oversight of Europe’s ...