Radius Books has put 100,000 books on public shelves

Meet the Santa Fe publisher lending art to the people

Binary Puzzle Number 88

Is ‘Die Hard’ a Christmas movie?

There are three categories of contender – which does it fit?

FirstFT: Jensen Huang named FT Person of the Year

Also in today’s newsletter: Apollo’s shift to complex lending and crypto boss sentenced to 15 years in prison

Russia sues Euroclear over frozen assets

Legal challenge is first shot across the bows as Brussels aims to use funds for €90bn loan to Ukraine

The UK economy is not nearly as bad as you’ve been told

A huge pessimistic bias in our national accounts leads us to doom and gloom which turns out to be nonsense

Political Fix Live: Labour’s year in review

Brexit, the British economy and where Labour stands politically

How to guarantee Ukraine’s ‘reparations loan’

An everything-all-at-once solution

Without immigration, more specialist and new free schools will close

Declining birth rates mean policymakers must make choices on which pupil places to cut

Gatwick airport blames Budget as it raises drop-off charges by 40%

Chief executive says higher business rates worry investors as they prepare to sign off on £2.2bn expansion

WHSmith delays results again to give auditor PwC more time

Retailer has been hit by accounting errors that led to resignation of chief executive last month

Nationwide fined £44mn over ‘failings’ in financial crime controls

UK regulator said building society lacked effective systems in monitoring customers’ transactions

UK economy contracts by 0.1% in October

Analysts and ONS attribute slowdown to uncertainty ahead of Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising Budget

My favourite thing: the secret treasures of the V&A East Storehouse

The custodians of the British museum reveal the greatest things to view

Norden, a wilderness camp that’s as comforting as cashmere

A first look at the textile maker Norlha’s new retreat on the Tibetan steppes

Submit your questions to Jemima Kelly: Is the vibe shift for real?

Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT columnist on Friday 12 December at 2pm GMT

‘The darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets’

Caroline Crenshaw’s epic exit speech

Transcript: Can 2026 match 2025?

Katie Martin and Robert Armstrong talk to Ian Smith

The impact of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal

What will and won’t change with a resolution to the war

FTAV’s further reading

Washington Post things; crypto; robots; Calibri; Bluerock; more robots; ‘cozy lit’; and musicals

One step forward, two steps back for the EU and its Ukraine loan scheme

Also in this newsletter: EU finance ministers crack down on cheap small packages

Former ANZ chief sues over axed $9mn bonus

Australian bank had cut incentives after scandals under Shayne Elliott’s watch

Transcript: Disney and OpenAI team up

Victoria Craig speaks to Ciara Nugent and Christopher Grimes

The electrification of everything

Many countries are moving away from fossil fuels by turning to electricity produced from renewable sources. However, the electrification of areas such as transport, heating and industry will cost billions of dollars in new infrastructure and is technically challenging