Nick Blair seeks funding for defence tech start-up
Son of former British prime minister Tony Blair talks to investors for new venture called Pyra
How AstraZeneca’s $400bn tie-up with US rival Bristol Myers unravelled
A merger between the giant drugmakers would have marked a return to pharma megadeals
Investing in the forgotten lands
Getting Europe back on the radar
FTAV’s further reading
Queue-jumping; JGBs; trade; STRIPs; blogging; MarioCart
Singapore shrugs off Iran war as AI boom buoys growth
Oil trading hub raises its GDP outlook and says energy market disruption has been less severe than expected
Confessions of a former star M&A reporter
Malice and aspirations at the billion-dollar rumour mill
FirstFT: EU border checks double waiting times
Also in today’s newsletter: Spain’s migrant amnesty and Turkish law on Kurdish militants
What will Warsh do to favour Main Street over Wall Street?
Evidence is mounting that the divide is rather more difficult to fix than the new Federal Reserve chair had thought
Transcript: Spain’s migrant crisis exposes serious challenges for young Moroccans
Victoria Craig speaks to Oliver Barnes and Malaika Kanaaneh Tapper
EU border checks double queues at major airports
Peak waiting times hit two hours in Frankfurt and Amsterdam
Nvidia becomes the bank of AI
Wall Street groups are working with the chipmaker to assemble a $500bn funding package for AI infrastructure
German truckers take the load as drought hits Rhine shipping
Emergency move to suspend Sunday ban comes as economists warn of hit to country’s GDP growth
José Mourinho dishes the dirt and quotes Nietzsche in new Netflix doc
The legendary manager is not camera-shy in ‘Mourinho’, with cameos from Alex Ferguson, Frank Lampard and more
Carbon tax will hit EU’s budget airlines where it hurts
Plans for a wider levy could benefit the bloc’s long-haul carriers but do little for low-cost operators
Banks’ refusal to take on crypto firms risks stunting UK industry’s growth, lawmakers say
Parliamentary group asks lenders to clarify rules for serving crypto companies
Morocco’s two-speed economy leaves young workers behind
Failure to translate growth into better living standards has driven migration attempts into Ceuta
Spain’s migrant amnesty a ‘very bad idea’, says Swedish PM
Ulf Kristersson says mass regularisation threatens integrity of Schengen free-travel zone
Hotel prices in Europe surge ahead of historic eclipse
Tourists rush to Iceland and Spain to glimpse the first solar alignment of its kind visible from the continent this century
The American factory, a romance
At New York’s Cooper Hewitt museum, Christopher Payne’s photographs turn the grind of industrial process to visual splendour
Why chess clubs are sweeping the board
The royal game is taking art galleries, jazz bars and speakeasies by storm
Setting sail from Copenhagen . . . on a 1906 schooner
A seven-day voyage to Gothenburg on a historic tall ship brings Denmark’s seafaring past into view, with Hamlet’s castle among its ports of call
The activists battling solar panel cowboy installers
As adoption of equipment for renewable energy surges among homeowners, so do complaints about faults and fakes. A cohort of unpaid campaigners is calling them out
Luxury fashion’s existential crisis
Pastiche has become fashion’s main mode of creation and the industry — stuck in a rut — has run out of things to copy
Canary Wharf boom fuels row over council’s unspent developer funds
Stalled bridge project highlights how Tower Hamlets has struggled to drive infrastructure improvements in England’s fastest-growing borough