Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The judgment handed down by Maine’s secretary of state on Thursday denying Donald Trump a place on the New England state’s primary ballot for the 2024 election was unsparing in its condemnation of the former
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Global stock markets are set to record their strongest year since 2019 following a blistering two-month rally as investors bet that major central banks have finished raising interest rates and will cut them rapidly next year.
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China has appointed a former navy chief as its new defence minister, four months after his predecessor disappeared from public view. Dong Jun, 62, replaces Li Shangfu, who was officially removed as defence
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Complaints to the UK legal regulator over tactics used by media lawyers to deter reporting on wealthy individuals are on the rise, according to official data that comes as new legislation to tackle the issue
We’re halfway through our starters, when Dame Kristin Scott Thomas informs me that I must on no account refer to her in this article as an ice queen. “Do not put that in!” she exclaims, helpfully clarifying that it’s not the queen part she objects to. I should not describe her as frosty or cold
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran hanged three men and one woman on Friday on allegations of co-operating with Israel’s intelligence services, as regional tensions escalate amid the backdrop of the war between Israel and Hamas. Mizan news agency, affiliated
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I probably live in the world’s worst city to avoid alcohol. Within a 15-minute walk of my home in Edinburgh, I can count at least eight pubs or bars. In one direction. It brings a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Maine’s top electoral official has disqualified Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot, making it the second state to ban the former president for allegedly engaging in insurrection by attempting to overturn the 2020
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the European banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. European banks have received a €100bn windfall from rising interest rates over the past two years, but the long-awaited boost has failed to close a persistent valuation gap. Net interest income (NII) climbed from €270bn
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Falling inflation is set to prompt the European Central Bank to start cutting interest rates by the second quarter of 2024, according to the majority of economists polled by the Financial Times. Rate-cut expectations have
On the corner of Anfu Road and Wulumuqi Road, one of only a handful of places that could stake a claim as the true centre-point of Shanghai, a police vehicle has been parked for over a year. It is smaller than a coach, slightly larger than a riot van and the characters “public” and “security”
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer directs the Center on the US and Europe at the Brookings Institution The death at 81 this week of the centre-right statesman Wolfgang Schäuble, one of Germany’s most ardent Europeanists (only a day before
Sporting a fresh cropped haircut, Nio co-founder and chief executive William Li was greeted like a rock star by tens of thousands of devoted fans on Saturday night as he took to the stage at the Olympic stadium in Xi’an, China’s ancient central capital. Li, who is often referred to as China’s Elon Musk, has
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tony Blair’s Labour government lobbied for a treaty to share the Parthenon marbles with Greece in 2003, accusing the British Museum of “blinkered intransigence” over the contested treasures. In a letter addressed to Blair in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour government in 2003 discussed setting up a detention centre for asylum seekers on the Isle of Mull in Scotland or forcibly removing them to a “safe third country” to curb clandestine migration. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tony Blair attempted to get the BBC to change the tone of its coverage of government policy towards Iraq the day before US and UK forces launched their invasion of the country, it was revealed
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An ultimately doomed plan for compulsory ID cards was backed by Tony Blair two decades ago despite senior colleagues warning the scheme was a potential “disaster” that would draw comparisons with “Big Brother”, according to
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US has slapped sanctions on groups in Turkey and Yemen allegedly responsible for funnelling money to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in a crackdown driven by their attacks on commercial vessels passing through the Red Sea.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private UK investors look set to have withdrawn the highest amount in more than two decades from London-listed equities by the end of 2023 as the cost of living crisis bites, further compounding a flight
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s government has put the country’s state media group into insolvency, the latest move in a drive by Prime Minister Donald Tusk to overhaul its operations in the face of opposition from the rightwing former