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
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NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg — combines battlefield action, dramatic courtroom battles and the formative years that set the stage for the
Doctors and nurses at the Golborne Medical Centre, in one of the UK’s most deprived areas, crowd together in a small examination room, eager to try out a new stethoscope. The instrument looks similar to the ones in use at the clinic, which have not been redesigned for about 200 years. This one however has
It took eight months for María and her family to reach New York after leaving their home in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, a gruelling voyage during which several of her fellow travellers died. “It was dangerous, very dangerous,” says the 33-year-old mother of four, standing outside her temporary home at midtown Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s main
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Business education myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Job placements for graduates of one of the world’s most prestigious business schools have fallen to the lowest levels in more than five years, in a sign of the slowdown in demand for recruitment for
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nearly nine-tenths of the foreign money that flowed into China’s stock market in 2023 has already left, spurred by mounting doubts about Beijing’s willingness to take serious action to boost flagging growth. Since
Central bankers are rethinking their approach to economic forecasting after their high-profile failures to spot the most recent inflationary outburst, as officials argue for greater candour with the markets about the uncertainties they are confronting. The European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and other official forecasters failed to see how the
The world’s largest traditional entertainment companies face a reckoning in 2024 after losing more than $5bn in the past year from the streaming services they built to compete with Netflix. Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, Comcast and Paramount — US entertainment conglomerates that have been growing ever larger for decades — are facing pressure to shrink
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US has proposed that working groups from the G7 explore ways to seize $300bn in frozen Russian assets, as the allies rush to agree a plan in time for the second anniversary of
Over the decades that the Post Office wrongfully prosecuted sub-postmasters using flawed evidence, the state-owned business turned to a series of lawyers to pursue the cases and then to avoid scrutiny. The public inquiry into the scandal has now shone a harsh light on the solicitors and barristers who are linked to what MPs have
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer spent much of his diplomatic life working on and in China. He is an associate fellow of the Council on Geostrategy, Rusi and Merics Those of us who spend our lives thinking about China
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jacques Delors, the former president of the European Commission and one of the main architects of today’s EU, has died at the age of 98. Delors was one of the most consequential figures in post-war
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Aerospace & Defence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The order books of the world’s biggest defence companies are near record highs after growing by more than 10 per cent in just two years because of rising geopolitical tension, including the conflict in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A US appeals court has halted a trade tribunal order banning Apple from selling the Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in the US, the latest development in an ongoing patent battle with health technology
From the late 1980s to the second decade of the 21st century, few politicians in the democratic world shaped the course of European history more profoundly than Wolfgang Schäuble, the German statesman who has died at the age of 81. His political acumen, financial expertise and grasp of international affairs made him an indispensable assistant
Rishi Sunak’s government has been criticised by a leading Brexiter, after it quietly announced it would not be legislating to expand the use of imperial measures in the UK. The decision to drop the idea, which had been hailed as a potential “Brexit freedom”, came after it turned out that only a tiny fraction of
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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 writer is president of the Open Society Foundations and a former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations In 1948, 75 years ago this month, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As 2024 approaches and the Covid lockdowns recede further into memory, companies everywhere are trying to establish a new normal. Some top Wall Street firms have opted for five full days back in the office.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the Spring Budget 2024 will be held on March 6. The fiscal event is seen by Downing Street as a crucial milestone in the run-up to a general
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine may have to postpone pay for public servants and pension payments to millions of its citizens if the EU and US fail to deliver promised financial aid early next year, its deputy prime