Meet the five people currently leading the race to run @blackrock if/when Larry Fink retires. ft.com/content/fd5eee… via @ft

WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich Is Free wsj.com/world/russia/e…

Total boss move 👇🏻

The private jet, board rights and $26mn of olive oil that bind Howard Schultz to Starbucks via Financial Times w ⁦Maria Heeter⁩ ⁦rhea basarkar⁩ on.ft.com/4dr5exN

🧶+☕️+ ✈️ = ⁉️ Howard Schultz stood down from his post at Starbucks for the third time last year—but his exit only went so far A jet, pseudo board seat & lifetime HQ badge access tie the $1.6bn shareholder to $SBUX W/ rhea basarkar+Anjli Raval 4 Financial Times ft.com/content/e37d19…

Google and Meta struck a secret ads deal to target teenagers, covering their tracks internally with code words and euphemisms. Financial Times investigation by ⁦Hannah Murphy⁩ & me on.ft.com/46BkqWU

NEW: 7 of the 10 most deprived areas in England have witnessed riots in the past 10 days. 12 out of the 23 local authorities where violence erupted are in the top decile for deprivation, suggesting a relationship between pockets of poverty and unrest 1/4 Lucy Fisher Amy Borrett

'We're told to focus on the change in behaviour we want to see within our teams, not the wrongdoing.' Management training these days can feel a bit like the tips handed out by the gentle parenting brigade. But your boss is not your parent, says Anjli Raval on.ft.com/3MdlUNX

I was annoyed by this headline (India is arguably the world's best cricketing nation) but then I read Tej Parikh's irritatingly good set of arguments and had to concede. >>> Why is India so bad at sports? ft.com/content/4d8e01… via @ft

‘You have to bring people with you’: how Knight Frank is trying to shed its fusty image on.ft.com/3XzKWNx

Tata ‘very close’ to securing £500mn of UK state aid for its Welsh steelmaking plant ft.com/content/476c62… via @ft

illuminating interview here with Natarajan Chandrasekaran, head of the Tata Group, on how the conglomerate is evolving - by Anjli Raval Chris Kay ft.com/content/a80637…

Holland and Barrett customers go on to Amazon 24 hours after visiting the health food chain =existential threat from admirable competitor, Holland & Barrett chair Alex Gourlay tells #FTretail and Anjli Raval

Lunchtime gossip used to fuel the City. It’s time for a comeback ft.com/content/290f6a… via @ft “No job is so important that it can’t be interrupted by stories someone doesn’t want you to hear.”

new on @ft website: UK deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and chancellor Rachel Reeves both took thousands of pounds of work clothing from rich donors that were declared as generic support for their work, the Financial Times can reveal. ft.com/content/2a2182…

25 years ago this weekend, the Financial Times's Sander Thoenes was killed by Indonesian soldiers in East Timor. No one has ever been brought to justice for that crime. ft.com/content/f71b94… via @ft

The business lunch wants you back! Read this weekend's magazine, and, I promise, you'll want it too. We've got gossip! girl gangs! table numbers for the best seats in the City! Go get it... 🍽️👀ft.com/businesslunchi…

‘“‘The traditional corporate lunch doesn’t cut through in the same way as it once did,” Johns told me. This was why, not long ago, he invited a business contact to a wine estate near his house.’ @anjliraval reports on the post-city business lunch on.ft.com/4dbX2kv