Letter: Kidron has put tech groups on notice over child safety online
From Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill, Directors and Producers, ‘Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media’, New York, NY, US
Letter: An argument that’s hard to swallow for an Irishman
From John Teeling, Great Northern Distillery, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Letter: An empire in decline still offers some hearty perks
From Praveen Raina, Singapore
Letter: Charts took the guesswork out of organisations
From Pedro Monteiro, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Signe Vikkelsø, Professor of Science, Technology, and Organisation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Letter: Facts feed the imagination and then the stomach
From Susan Stewart, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK
Letter: Space is no longer the final frontier for pop stars
From Andy Edwards, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK
Letter: Hirschman offered other pertinent observations
From E Ahmet Tonak, Amherst, MA, US
Letter: Banker’s retirement plans gave me food for thought
From Caroline Kenyon, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, UK
Letter: Winner-take-all attitude lives on outside the office
From Lawrence L Wallace, London W14, UK
Letter: Political interference is hurting the ‘golden goose’
From Michael “Scientist” Pravica, Henderson, NV, US
Letter: Probing the depths of human desire by the sea
From Ivan Berkowitz, New York, NY, US
Shell says it would rather buy back its own shares than bid for BP
First-quarter profits drop 28% but Shell maintains $3.5bn-a-quarter buyback rate
FT Crossword: Polymath number 1,333
Citi del Sol: How the party ended for Wall Street bank’s Málaga experiment
‘They sold us the dream but the reality was much more different,’ said one employee
FT Crossword: Number 18,044
FT Crossword: Number 18,043
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK hammers Tories and Labour in local election rout
Big two parties lose ground while rightwing rival surges in council and mayoral polls
Transcript: Local elections special — end of the two-party duopoly?
Lucy Fisher talks to George Parker, Robert Shrimsley and Stephen Bush
US lawmakers urge SEC to delist Alibaba and Chinese companies
Heads of congressional panels say Baidu, JD.com and others have military links that pose ‘unacceptable risk’ to investors
US stocks wipe out steep losses that followed Trump’s ‘liberation day’
Rally in Wall Street’s S&P 500 share index comes after labour data shows 177,000 jobs were added in April
UK military prevented from flying drones over soldiers’ heads
Overly cautious regulations and data protection guidelines are curtailing exercises, MPs warn
Dubai draws Swiss family offices tired of tax and regulation
A confluence of factors from disclosure requirements to a potential 50 per cent wealth tax is weighing on the country
Trump calls for $163bn in cuts to ‘woke’ and ‘wasteful’ federal spending
Budget blueprint proposes slashing environmental and aid programmes, while boosting support for defence
US to demand Google break up its online advertising business
Justice department asks judge to force Alphabet to sell its ad exchange and publisher server tech after trial victory