Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Should we mourn the slow death of the traditional funeral? The soaring cost of ceremonies and an increasingly secular society mean that fewer than half of Britons now want a funeral, according to a study
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Women wine professionals have come a long way since my first visit to Australia in 1981, when I was introduced to Pam Dunsford of Chapel Hill in McLaren Vale as the country’s only woman winemaker. Today, a huge proportion of the leading champagne houses have female chefs de cave. Women make up very nearly half
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US, UK and Australia have agreed to boost their ability to monitor “emerging threats” in space, in one of several new initiatives linked to the trilateral security pact they signed in 2021 as part
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Electric vehicles myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The Biden administration has moved to choke off China’s role in the US’s electric vehicle supply chain with rules that critics allege will slow the transition from petrol-fuelled cars. The US Treasury announced on Friday
It is hard to recall a figure whose death has evoked more polarised reactions than that of Henry Kissinger. The last of America’s grand strategists was as reviled as he was adulated — often by the same people. Many prominent Americans who as students in the 1970s loathed the Vietnam war and the secret bombing
King Charles III addressed the COP28 summit in Dubai on Friday wearing a tie emblazoned with the Greek flag, in a week that saw a big diplomatic bust-up between London and Athens. The dispute erupted after Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, cancelled a meeting with his Greek counterpart on Tuesday, accusing Kyriakos Mitsotakis of using
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. World Bank president Ajay Banga said the hundreds of millions of dollars committed to a fund to help poor countries with climate loss and damage would not be spent on any projects before a raft
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In the days when Armani-suited TV executives displayed their charismatic socks while lounging in directional chairs and making rulings about the tastes of the Great British Public, the old saw was that you could never axe
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jensen Huang, the laconic, leather-jacketed chief executive of Nvidia, is enjoying a number of triumphs. The technology group that he co-founded and runs is now the world’s sixth most valuable company, and its chips and
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pushing to speed up construction of military fortifications at key points along the frontline in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have stepped up attacks in recent weeks. The drive came
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir James Dyson has lost his libel battle against the publisher of the Daily Mirror over an article that branded the billionaire a hypocrite for supporting Brexit before moving his head office to Singapore. The
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British technology tycoon Lawrence Jones has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for raping two women 30 years ago and for sexually assaulting a former employee a decade ago. Judge Sarah Johnston said in Manchester
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. X is racing to attract smaller and medium-sized businesses to prop up its flailing advertising business, following Elon Musk’s profanity-strewn attack on the big brands that are boycotting his social media platform. The billionaire has
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UAE host of COP28 has given access to hundreds of bankers, consultants and lobbyists — and 20 housekeepers — at the event where oil and gas executives such as ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods
In the South African summer of 1946, a young military veteran named Jules Browde enrolled as a law student at Wits University in Johannesburg. As he waited for his first seminar to begin, a “very tall, handsome” man walked in. “He was strapping,” Browde recalled decades later — and everyone looked up and clocked him.
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine’ Whether the breach in the temporary ceasefire in Gaza turns out itself to be temporary, the fragility of the situation is
There are good reasons why English law is famous around the world, and there are equally good reasons why English lawyers tend not to be. They are mostly too rarefied, too shrouded in formal garb, too satisfied with their Latin vocab. But occasionally one comes along who catches the limelight. Their courtroom gestures are more
Israel is planning a campaign against Hamas that will stretch for a year or more, with the most intensive phase of the ground offensive continuing into early 2024, according to several people familiar with the preparations. The multi-phase strategy envisages Israeli forces, who are garrisoned inside north Gaza, making an imminent push deep into the
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. An improved methodology for incorporating rental prices into UK statistics points to slightly quicker price growth at a time when policymakers are battling to bring inflation down to the 2 per cent target. The new
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK house prices myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK house prices unexpectedly rose again in November, according to data that provides further evidence of stabilisation in the property market as high mortgage rates ease. House prices grew 0.2 per cent between October
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel’s military has restarted fighting against Hamas in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday, ending a week-long truce that international mediators had hoped to extend to an eighth day. “Hamas violated the operational