Seasteading – a vanity project for the rich or the future of humanity?
Beloved by Silicon Valley tycoons and tyranny-fearing libertarians, are cities atop the waves Earth’s next frontier?
Economics
Fashion industry reels as coronavirus shuts shops and cancels orders
Report warns 80% of firms face a highly uncertain future if stores close for two months
UK house prices rising at fastest rate since February 2018
Halifax shows rate of growth at 4.1%, partly due to sales delayed amid 2019 uncertainty
Trade war: France hits back over US tariff threat on cheese and champagne – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as US proposes steep new tariffs on French food, drink, handbags and porcelain
- Introduction: Trade war deepens
- US unhappy over French digital tax
- France: We’ll hit back!
- Yesterday: new steel tariffs on Brazil and Argentina
Barneys New York files for bankruptcy
Luxury chain made famous by Sex and the City has debts of up to $500m
Annus mirabilis: all the things that went right in 2017
It was a tale of two years – the best of times and the worst of times. But not everything went wrong – from Mata’s 1% to orangutans, we look at the good