Jiří Viktor Daneš was Czechoslovakia’s first consul to Australia. His restored photos are now in a new book.  We spoke with ...

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

Is Suharto, an old president with a history of violence, worthy of the title? W hen Indonesia’s former president Suharto died ...

U-turn lifts limit from £1m to £2.5m after protests and warnings that family farms were at risk Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of ...

Government proposals to tax inherited farmland have been watered down, with the planned threshold increasing from £1m to £2.5m. The climbdown follows months of protests by farmers and concern from ...

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The Labour government has announced a significant climbdown on its policy of inheritance tax for farmers following a major backlash. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fewer farmers will start paying inheritance tax from April after UK ministers were forced into a £130mn climbdown by a ...

In a massive Christmas U-turn by Sir Keir Starmer, the government has announced a huge climbdown on inheritance tax on farmers. The tax relief on family farms handed down between families is to ...