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FT Weekend Magazine’s Christmas issue

Advice from the festive pros, a round-up of the best ever Christmas recipes and Nigella Lawson’s gift guide

With take-up of battery electric vehicles slowing in the US and Europe, catalytic converters will remain in demand

Rachel Reeves has steered the gilt market to a less skittish place with the Budget

Rachel Reeves included a measure to limit an inheritance tax charge cited by wealthy as reason for leaving country

The buffer Reeves built into her plans is admirable, but no guarantee of avoiding the nasty dilemmas to come

Bankers are expecting easing of leverage ratio as part of forthcoming review

Government £365mn pledge will not help thousands caught up in the controversy, say tax experts

The ambitious US army secretary has been thrust into the spotlight of Moscow-Kyiv negotiations

Efforts to attract young audiences to religion can be fraught but pizza-loving, Wordle-playing Leo XIV has struck a chord

The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ a few years ago

The best toys, tools, tech, beauty — and butter subscription

The real losers from Rachel Reeves’ financial statement were not the wealthy, but those on the way to wealth

A Delia classic, an Ottolenghi rising star — and a trifle from a Gas Board pamphlet

The Swedish retailer is being squeezed from above by the likes of Zara and below by rivals such as Shein and Temu

Three money moves for higher earners to consider

A chopped liver recipe inspired by a famous New York bagel shop and a boozy Mont Blanc

Steven Wood pushes for board overhaul after giving up hope of constructive relations with controlling Hayek family

Self-help musings are all over the city’s streets — is this a sign that social media is leaking into the real world?

Carrier hits medium-term pre-tax profit target of £250mn two years ahead of schedule

Uptick in strikes against Shia militant group risks reigniting war in Lebanon

If you could only choose one festive treat, what would it be? Nigella Lawson, Jay Rayner, Jancis Robinson and more share their non-negotiables

On a tour of little-visited conservation areas, the FT columnist gets up close — sometimes a little too close — with the wildlife

Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics — and the case for pro-worker AI

Lockdown transformed the prospects of the company after the launch of the direct-to-consumer business