Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Egypt is building a walled enclosure along its border with Gaza, according to satellite images and activists, as Israel warned it would expand its offensive into the city of Rafah where 1.5mn displaced Palestinians have
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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. Since Reform UK relaunched in late 2020, the party has underperformed when put to the test in by-elections. But this week the populist threat on Rishi Sunak’s right flank showed it could meaningfully chip away
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An ex-Goldman Sachs analyst who obtained sensitive information about deals the investment bank was advising on and used it to trade stocks has been handed a prison sentence of almost two years. Mohammed Zina was
Arriving weary and hungry from the bullet train in Hiroshima one night last spring, I trod the natural path by heading to a 7-Eleven convenience store for a can of beer, an onigiri rice ball and some fried chicken. In Japan’s cities, no matter the hour, one is never far from a bright haven of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north, Russia’s prison service has said. Navalny, 47 — President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent and a fierce critic of
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and fellow at IWM Vienna Uncertainty may reign in the world today, but we can be sure that the
As shoppers were hitting the high street in the weeks leading up to Christmas last year, private equity firm Aurelius was eyeing a bargain of its own. The London-based fund manager announced in mid-November that it had scooped up British ethical beauty brand The Body Shop, buying it from Brazilian cosmetics conglomerate Natura in a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On average, women are paid less than men. And I’ll let you into a secret of the sisterhood: they don’t like it. Policymakers around the world have seized on a supposedly simple solution, which is
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Thomas Suozzi won New York’s third congressional district in Tuesday’s special election, it was just the latest in a wave of impressive results for Democrats in off-cycle ballots. Averaged across the 57 contested elections
Investors are piling into stocks of European luxury goods and other sectors with exposure to China, believing they offer a safer way to profit from a possible recovery in the world’s second-largest economy than investing directly in its ailing stock market. The Stoxx Luxury 10 index — whose constituents derive around 26 per cent of
New assessments of Russia’s military capabilities and its threats to Nato’s security have led to a rising drumbeat of warnings from western governments and pressure to invest more heavily in defence. “We are living in truly dangerous times [and] at a point when large-scale conflict is more likely than it has been in recent history,”
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a severe blow on Friday as the Labour party won the formerly safe Conservative seat of Kingswood, in what the opposition party hopes is a harbinger of victory at the
Brussels should incentivise Europe’s defence industry to increase production and promote consolidation, the president of the European Commission has said, as she warned the “world has got rougher”. Ursula von der Leyen said the commission was developing its defence industry strategy informed by the experience of using taxpayer cash to boost the production of Covid-19
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels should incentivise Europe’s defence industry to ramp up production and promote consolidation, the president of the European Commission has said, as she warned that the “world has got rougher”. Ursula von der Leyen said
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The White House on Thursday said it had received “troubling” intelligence that Russia is developing an advanced “anti-satellite capability”, confirming reports that had raised alarm bells among defence hawks on Capitol Hill. John Kirby, US
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft is accelerating a push away from its own Xbox hardware, hoping to boost growth by selling more games on rival consoles as the industry reckons with a protracted slowdown. The technology group plans to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jeremy Hunt has warned Conservative colleagues not to expect big tax cuts in his March 6 Budget, after a new set of internal fiscal forecasts showed he has dwindling room for manoeuvre. Rising government borrowing
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chief executive of Google and Alphabet Last year saw rapid and significant technological change powered by progress in artificial intelligence. Millions of people are now using AI tools to learn new things,
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump will next month become the first former US president to face a criminal trial, after a New York state judge declined to dismiss or delay the “hush money” case brought against him over
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A Bank of England rate-setter has said she will not vote to cut the cost of borrowing before seeing more evidence that inflation is returning to the central bank’s target. Megan Greene said on
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s recession was variously described by economists on Thursday as “technical” and “shallow”, but in the brutal political arena ahead of a general election it was given a different name: “Rishi’s recession”. The bare facts