While some of these interventions have medical applications for small numbers of people, most “wellness” therapies hawked online, administered at “clinics”, or provided in remote spas are pure ...

To answer this, it’s necessary to recall one of the Napa Valley greats, the late Mike Grgich who spent many years eager to prove that Zinfandel came from Croatia, convinced that its vines were ...

This regatta was first contested in 1852. It is held annually at River Thames in New London, Connecticut. No, not Thames, but Thames, rhyming with “James”, with the “th” pronounced as in “thing”!

Nicholas Ostler, in his 2005 book Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, observes that the great languages have generally been the languages of the greatest traders and, especially, ...

From Yvonne M Hilst, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Former Law Clerk to The Honourable Gregory Carman, US Court of International Trade in New York ...

In a recent FT Weekend edition there were a few references to the University of Pennsylvania as one of the elite institutions being targeted by Donald Trump, including in Edward Luce’s Big Read “An ...

What I like to call the “How To Tariff It Edition” of the FT sold out in Rome, where I live. A silver lining to the drama unfolding on the White House lawn was the elevation of FT Weekend to the top ...

I’ve read with amusement the various reports of the super-rich biohacker Bryan Johnson and his quest to live forever. I was no less taken by Hannah Murphy’s description of her hour-long interaction ...

According to Michael Kidron, the Marxist economist and one of the early founders of the International Socialists, forerunners of the Socialist Workers party, the role of what was then described as the ...

The benchmark 10-year yield, which underpins assets around the globe, rose 0.15 percentage points to 4.54 per cent, surpassing Wednesday’s highs, before falling back to 4.49 per cent. The 30-year bond ...

But only now are asset managers beginning to reconsider the story of America as an inexhaustible well of safe bets ...

Alphaville has raided our inbox for some of the more eye-catching bits that have come out this afternoon. As Barclays’ Ajay Rajadhyaksha title notes: “This is not normal.” Quite. The emphases in bold ...