It was dark when roughly 30 trucks of food reached an Israeli checkpoint on Al Rashid Street in Gaza City, a stretch of Mediterranean road dotted just four months ago with hotels, wedding halls and ice cream stands. But around 4am on February 29, videos shared by Palestinians show, it was a dystopian landscape —
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has announced plans to crackdown on extremist activity in British universities and revoke visas from people who “spew hate on protests or seek to intimidate people”. The UK prime minister on Friday stepped
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s Labour party is on alert for Rishi Sunak to use next week’s Budget as a springboard for a surprise May general election, including using the fiscal event to steal some of the opposition’s key
The writer is author of ‘Liberalism and Its Discontents’ According to the non-profit Freedom House, there has been a steady decline in the quantity and quality of liberal democracies around the world for the past 18 years. Among the backsliders, there is no case more serious than that of the United States. American institutions have
At JPMorgan Chase, investment banking head Vis Raghavan regularly told recruits, “You’re either reading the news or making the news.” The hard-nosed advice was a key tool Raghavan used to motivate employees, win deals and help transform JPMorgan into the leading global investment bank. After more than 20 years at the bank and less than
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek was recruited by Russian intelligence at a meeting on a yacht in July 2014, sparking a decade-long association with the country’s security services, according to new reports. An investigation by The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blackstone Group’s $60bn property fund met all of its investors’ redemption requests in February, marking the first time it did not limit such withdrawals in more than a year. The property fund said in a
Germany and France on Friday expressed alarm at the deaths of dozens of Gazans seeking aid as Israel faced an outcry over its troops opening fire close to a humanitarian convoy. Germany, which has been a staunch ally of the Jewish state since its war with Hamas began in October, called for an explanation from
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bitcoin prices are at fresh record highs in many currencies. In dollars the cryptocurrency is up more than 40 per cent over the past month. The $69,000 intra day high set in 2021 is within
George Galloway’s emphatic win in the Rochdale by-election demonstrates the anger felt by many Muslims over Labour’s position on Israel but also points to a deepening frustration with Britain’s political establishment ahead of this year’s general election. Galloway, in his trademark black fedora, warned that his victory in the town near Manchester would mark a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Red Bull Racing has been plunged into fresh turmoil a day before the start of the Formula One season after a cache of messages allegedly involving team boss Christian Horner and a female employee was
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, Labour politicians would have you believe that the UK’s economic problems stem from Liz Truss’s brief and disastrous spell as prime minister. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves criticises “the misery that this
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman, alleging the ChatGPT-maker’s multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft has compromised the start-up’s original mission of building artificial intelligence systems for the benefit
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of people gathered outside a church in south-eastern Moscow where Alexei Navalny is to be buried ahead of the Russian opposition leader’s funeral on Friday. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices rose more than expected in February, posting their first annual increase in more than a year according to lender Nationwide, adding to evidence of a market recovery as mortgage rates eased.
It was around a decade ago that Chad Hutchinson, a former US athlete turned investor, first looked into financing a Formula One racing team. But the onetime National Football League quarterback just could not get comfortable with the idea. It was not just the teams’ lack of profitability that worried him but the dynamics of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Tim Cook told Wall Street a month ago that Apple would unveil new artificial intelligence features this year, he broke with the company’s normal practice of not talking about a new technology until it
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is clearly keen to cut taxes in next week’s UK Budget. But money is tight. One strategy would be to go ahead, pay for it by squeezing future public services spending and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. George Galloway has won a divisive by-election contest in Rochdale with the firebrand politician threatening to inflame tensions in the UK parliament over Israel’s offensive in Gaza. Galloway won 12,335 votes on a 37.6 per
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s economy has showed further signs of sluggish momentum as factory activity slowed, increasing pressure on President Xi Jinping to do more to boost growth days before Beijing opens its annual flagship political event. The