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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 head of the FBI warned a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the Hamas attack on Israel has given terrorists inspiration “the likes of which we haven’t seen” since the rise of Isis a decade

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What did Hamas hope to achieve by its attack on Israel of October 7? The answer was surely to set the region aflame. More narrowly, it was to provoke the response we see, with inevitable

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boris Johnson believed the UK should “let old people” contract Covid-19 to protect the economy and young people from strict lockdown measures during the pandemic, according to the government’s former chief scientific adviser. In diary

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The aspirations and frustrations of the white-collar worker have been depicted by great fictional characters in novels and on the screen, notably Bartleby, the Scrivener, Revolutionary Road’s Frank Wheeler and The Office’s David Brent. To

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Odey Asset Management is to close five months after allegations of sexual assault and harassment against its founder Crispin Odey plunged one of London’s oldest hedge fund groups into crisis. “Odey Asset Management, including Brook

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Without looking it up, can readers of this newspaper name the chief diplomat of the EU? Or, to stand on ceremony for a moment, the “high representative for foreign affairs and security policy”? Can even one

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The collapse of cryptocurrency exchange giant FTX marked the depths of the crypto downturn. Yet the ensuing trial of founder Sam Bankman-Fried, accused of defrauding customers, has not dragged crypto prices down further. Despite negative

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel said on Tuesday that its troops had moved deeper into the Gaza Strip as it stepped up its assault on Hamas, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls for a ceasefire and said

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russia has restricted western companies selling their Russian assets from withdrawing the proceeds in dollars and euros, imposing additional de facto currency controls in an effort to shore up the weakening rouble. Western companies exiting

For more than a decade, Israel’s military leadership grudgingly acknowledged one overriding trait in its Gaza enemy: Hamas knew how to bide its time. “Let the beast sleep until you’re ready,” was the mantra of Mahmoud Ajrami, a veteran Palestinian fighter who has trained a generation of Gaza militants. The examples were aplenty. In 2018,

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One of the puzzles about generative artificial intelligence is why the text it conjures is so long-winded. Why does ChatGPT produce 10 paragraphs when one would do? Another puzzle is how we will all behave

“Today is a good day,” declares Graeme Watters, as he watches the 114 turbines at the giant Seagreen wind farm rotate. It is mid-October, and the project that began off Scotland’s east coast almost 14 years before is now fully operational.  Seagreen, a joint venture between French group TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables, a division of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spending on temporary workers and consultants has increased across many UK government departments, sparking accusations that Whitehall has failed to invest in skills across the civil service. The number of temporary staff and consultants employed

10/30/2023, 11:52:14 PM What to watch in Asia today George Russell in Hong Kong Events: Many Asia-Pacific cities celebrate Halloween, but Seoul will be cautiously marking a year since a surge of revellers resulted in 151 deaths and more than 80 injuries. Tokyo’s busy Shibuya district has imposed a policy of no alcohol in the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hundreds of mourners have flocked to Li Keqiang’s childhood home to pay their respects to a reformist politician many saw as the “people’s premier”, creating a potential political challenge for Chinese president Xi Jinping. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has valued its equity at $19bn, the company told employees, a year after Elon Musk acquired it in a $44bn deal. In an internal note sent to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to convince European leaders to put pressure on Egypt into accepting refugees from Gaza, according to people briefed on the discussions. The idea, which he put forward in meetings with

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A British Conservative MP has been sacked from his role as a ministerial aide after breaking ranks with the government by calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Paul Bristow was fired as a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The conflict in Israel threatens much in the region and beyond. Rising tensions and security concerns also have potential repercussions on the country’s ambitions to grow its natural gas exports.  In the space of little

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government’s planning for the Covid-19 pandemic was “inadequate” with no real strategy in place to deal with the crisis that unfolded, according to Boris Johnson’s former principal private secretary. Martin Reynolds, who headed the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. PwC has picked the head of its international advisory business, Mohamed Kande, to be its next chair, putting the Big Four accounting firm in the hands of a consulting partner for the first time. Kande’s