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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. Until this week, the UK economy looked increasingly set for a smooth “soft landing”, with inflation dropping sharply and early signs of growth picking up. But data releases in the past few days have added
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This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Monday and Friday It is easy to dismiss the 45 per cent or more of America that would vote for Donald Trump as mad or bad. There are plenty of both,
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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. The German parliament has passed a law that will make it easier for foreigners to acquire citizenship, as Berlin looks to immigration to solve a dire shortage of skilled workers. Under the law, passed by
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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. Anyone who recently insured their car was probably shocked by the sharp rise in the cost of driving. Even drivers with long records of accident-free motoring have faced sudden jumps in prices for the policies
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A sharp divide in Israel’s war leadership has broken into the open after former military chief Gadi Eisenkot called for elections within months and said the government was not being truthful with the public about its offensive against Hamas. A blunt television interview, in which Eisenkot also declined to say that he trusted Israeli Prime
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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. Mexico and Chile have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate possible crimes committed during Hamas’s attack on Israel and the Jewish state’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. The move is the latest sign of mounting
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“I’m going to tell you the truth,” says Vanya, a Ukrainian soldier serving in a reconnaissance unit fighting alongside marines on the east bank of the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine. “The situation is deplorable.”  His damning assessment follows months of daring raids into enemy territory by Ukrainian forces last autumn to establish a tenuous
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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. When news outlets called Donald Trump’s election defeat in November 2020, my neighbours in Washington DC celebrated by banging pots and pans from their windows. Because nothing says, “This is nearly over” like the clang
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Last week’s launch of the FT’s annual stock picking contest prompted a flurry of emails from readers. The purpose of the competition is educational — we want to encourage more people to get into investing. However, some of you are (quite rightly) concerned that trying to select the best or worst performing shares in 2024
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Giorgia Meloni’s government has started formal proceedings to put Europe’s largest steelworks under special administration after failing to agree with ArcelorMittal on the plant’s future. Invitalia, Italy’s state investment agency and a stakeholder in the plant’s operations, took the first step in formally requesting the appointment of a special administrator to run the company earlier
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