Big Four’s shrinkage at the top presages weakness at the bottom line
Professional service firms appear to be braced for flatlining growth
Professional service firms appear to be braced for flatlining growth
Plus: Electricity prices, deportation plans, and dodgy degrees
Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!
The fallout from an ambassadorial appointment like no other threatens even worse procedural ‘sludge’ in Whitehall
British pension schemes will soon be forced to support my portfolio
Plus: Electricity prices, deportation plans, and dodgy degrees
From Mary Beard’s love for the classics to the dynasty behind Fidelity and the dynasty that rules North Korea. Plus fiction by Lucy Caldwell, Amitav Ghosh and Suzi Feay’s pick of debuts
A romance scam takes an unexpected turn in Martina Hefter’s German Book Prize-winning novel, her first translated into English
The UK government’s chief legal adviser on the Starmer people don’t see — and why the Chagos deal is about security not surrender
Schrodinger’s Strait
But the central bank will pause in June amid Iran uncertainty
British sports-car maker to launch Chinese-made Eletre X in Europe in June
Also in today’s newsletter, development finance in an age of ‘trade over aid’
Report into bridging lender finds 2 vehicles did not have anti-money laundering registrations
His musical open-mindedness and gift for communication made him the natural heir to Leonard Bernstein
The French-Algerian singer, who has written for K-Pop acts like New Jeans, explores her roots in these dreamy tracks
Often underused green spaces are being targeted as a creative solution for sclerotic housebuilding rates in the capital. But environmentalists are calling the plan a duff
Trump official Michael Kratsios says Chinese entities stealing from American labs