It’s seven years since I stopped presenting the Today programme and started listening to Radio 3 instead. Or at least, that was the plan. On the first day it lasted for almost an hour. By the second day I’d given up on it. I suppose it was inevitable. You can’t spend 61 years as a…
To do what the PFIPC did, an agency in Nigeria must pass through some of the most powerful offices in government – the secretary to the government of the federation – effectively the government’s chief administrator, the head of the civil service, the accountant-general who controls public accounts, the budget office, and finally parliament, which…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has accused OpenAI and two of its employees of stealing top-secret information in a lawsuit filed in a California federal court on Friday, as the relationship between two of the biggest names in Silicon…
It’s been nearly a year since Scottie Scheffler sat inside an interview room overseas and wondered, “What is the point?” “This is not a fulfilling life,” Scheffler said ahead of last year’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush. “It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places…
Sir Keir Starmer has warned his likely successor Andy Burnham will have to spend just as much time dealing with global turmoil as he has during his time in No 10. In an untypically candid interview, the outgoing prime minister spoke for the first time about the “intensely personal” and “really tough” decision he took…
LONDON (AP) — Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin wiped away tears after beating Brazilian rising star João Fonseca 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon on Friday. Safiullin, ranked No. 132, dealt with a knee injury last year but this week has eliminated two seeded opponents at the All England Club. He surprised…
Greg WyshynskiJun 30, 2026, 08:00 AM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Multiple Authors The NHL free agent pool is basically a puddle this offseason, as high-profile players chose to remain with their teams on new contracts rather than test the market. If teams want to make dramatic changes to the rosters —…
William Watkins, chief executive of Radnor Hills, described the current situation in Wales as a “complete and utter mess”, warning that differences between systems on either side of the England–Wales border would create major difficulties for producers. “We have to have a system which is the same on both sides of the border,” he said….
“Film directors are a bunch of wretches who devote themselves to doing something that is, technologically, almost obsolete,” Orson Welles declared in a 1985 interview, recorded by ‘Arte TV’ (source in Spanish), months before his death. Alonso Quijano could have said something similar about the profession of chivalry, already obsolete in the Renaissance Spain that…
The nanobubblers had to go. It was early June, and the Trump administration was planning an event at the Lincoln Memorial on June 12 to promote President Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship birthday celebration at the White House. Dotted around the perimeter of the memorial’s Reflecting Pool were the nanobubblers, the temporary water-purification machines meant to…
