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If Westminster is becoming a “zombie parliament” then James Heappey, once seen as a rising star of the Conservative party, on Friday joined the ranks of the living dead: Tory MPs stepping down at the next election. Heappey, a former Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, became the 65th Conservative MP to call

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The way early Slack adopters talked about workplace messaging in the 2010s sounds unhinged today. It was a “friend” in the office, the “glue” keeping teams together and the reason work was fun. Of course,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has agreed to pay $490mn to settle a class action accusing chief executive Tim Cook of misleading investors in 2018 by exaggerating demand for the iPhone in China. Investors claimed Cook overstated demand for

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. England has experienced its wettest 18 months since records began in 1836, leaving farmers struggling to plant crops in waterlogged fields and transport networks disrupted by flooding. Climate change has exacerbated weather events around the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Reckitt’s share price plummeted as much as 20 per cent after a jury in the US awarded $60mn in damages to a mother who said her baby died after consuming the company’s Enfamil

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US interest rates myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors have fallen into line with the Federal Reserve’s expectation that it will cut interest rates just three times this year, after a months-long stand-off between markets and the central bank. Following a run

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. So high is the level of hysteria, it wouldn’t be surprising to discover that Princess Catherine has pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and fallen into an enchanted sleep. Since she went into hospital

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A judge in the state of Georgia has ruled that the district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for election meddling may continue leading the case as long as the outside lawyer with whom she had a

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Investors poured a record amount into US equity funds last week, snapping up technology stocks and shrugging off concerns over sticky inflation. US equity funds drew $56bn of funds in the week to March 13

The writer is a historian, philosopher and author The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is fuelled by the mutual horror of destruction. Each side fears the other wishes to kill or expel it, and terminate its existence as a national collective. Unfortunately, these are not irrational fears born out of paranoia, but reasonable fears based on recent historical

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Pensions industry myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The UK government’s top infrastructure adviser has hit out at a drive to push pension schemes to invest more in Britain, saying there is “no reason” funds should have a home bias. Sir John Armitt,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is deputy director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies The non-dom rules are finally being scrapped. No longer will the UK base taxation on the antiquated concept of domicile — a highly subjective

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK public expectations for inflation have fallen to the lowest in well over two years and close to their long-term average, according to official data that will reinforce the case for interest rate cuts by

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine has urged western allies to fund its domestic weapons production with its recently ramped up manufacturing capacity now vastly exceeding the money available for orders. “The fastest way to start production is to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. TikTok has hit $16bn in sales in the US, where the viral video app that has hooked Gen Z users is at risk of being banned. Three people with knowledge of its finances said the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s war cabinet was set to convene on Friday to discuss the latest Hamas response to a potential ceasefire deal in the Gaza war that would also allow for the release of Israeli hostages. Qatar,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Unions representing millions of UK workers have called on the Labour leadership to commit to scrapping state pension age rises, saying they could push retirement out of reach for today’s young. The call came from

Russian oil tankers circumventing western sanctions are relying on insurance that appears impossible to claim against, according to leaked documents exposing the risks taken by Moscow’s “dark fleet”. The cache of shipping files, seen by the Financial Times and the Danish media group Danwatch, reveals that a number of Russian vessels travelling from the Baltic

On the morning of August 12 2020, the day he decided to fight the Uber Eats algorithm, Armin Samii woke earlier than usual. He dressed, made coffee and sat down at his computer where he remained for the next 16 hours, coding a web application and filming videos to show other couriers how to use

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The western world has a growth problem. From the postwar boom to the global financial crisis in 2008, gross domestic product per head in G7 countries drifted higher by the decade. But for the past

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The “Wendy’s Dave’s Triple” is a fast-food offering that stacks two possessives and three hamburgers. I am not sure how easy it is to swallow in either regard, but what has really been sticking in