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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 UK government has come under pressure to disclose legal advice about Israel’s conduct in Gaza after a senior Conservative MP claimed that an internal assessment found the Jewish state had breached international humanitarian law.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was a grim irony that as new questions were swirling over the future of debt-laden Thames Water — Britain’s largest water utility — this weekend, the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race had to go ahead

The surge of money flooding into artificial intelligence has resulted in some crypto-like hype that is obscuring the incredible scientific progress in the field, according to Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind. The chief executive of Google’s AI research division told the Financial Times that the billions of dollars being poured into generative AI start-ups and

The writer is associate professor of behavioural science at Warwick Business School To my mind, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi remake of Dune is a critique of the idea of a messiah as a form of societal control. After logging on to X, however, I saw that some out there do not share this view: a few

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lawmakers in US state capitals are seeking to stifle development of “lab-grown” tuna, pork and other animal proteins, taking a stand against a novel food technology backed by investors such as Bill Gates and Jeff

For Aminah Rehman and her friends at university, going out to a nightclub in London has become a tough sell. “It’s dark. You have to pay. You can’t see each other. You can’t talk — it’s just not that enjoyable,” said the 22-year-old, whose cohort prefers pubs or house parties. “I wouldn’t want to pay

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Social affairs myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I recently spent a day at the “World Happiness Summit” in London. As you might expect from “the happiness event of the year”, much of the content was rather uplifting and enjoyable. And, as you

Hisham was enjoying the mild winter weather on a recent walk through Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter when he was suddenly stopped by the police. “Why are you wearing this?” they asked, pointing to his T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Palestine” in six different fonts. “This is a political gesture . . . We’re pro-Palestine, but you don’t do this,”

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. French President Emmanuel Macron was right to keep Russia guessing about the limits of western support for Kyiv when he floated the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, Finland’s foreign minister has said. Elina Valtonen

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Mohammed Marikar’s typical commute to his office in the City of London takes three and a half hours. On a bad day, it is more than four. The senior director at RBC Wealth Management is

British culture is underscored by “our Christian way of life”, declared Tory MP Nick Fletcher in a pre-Easter parliamentary debate about the place of Christianity in the UK that he organised this month. Hosting debates about Christian faith ahead of Easter and Christmas has become a tradition for Fletcher, one of a clutch of vocal

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Online fast-fashion giant Shein has more than doubled its profits as it awaits regulatory approval from Beijing to go ahead with its blockbuster listing in New York or London. Shein hit a record of more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. AstraZeneca’s plan to pay chief executive Pascal Soriot up to £18.7mn has been branded “excessive” by two influential shareholder advisers, saying his remuneration was already competitive versus international peers. The drugmaker last month set out

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s stunning downfall after being charged with “historical” sex offences has pitched Northern Ireland’s biggest pro-UK party into turmoil ahead of a general election. Donaldson, who stepped down as DUP leader on Friday,

Ya’akov Cohen shrugs off the prospect of a new law that will force young ultra-Orthodox men like him to abandon full-time study of Jewish scriptures and serve in the Israeli army. “I can promise you that none of us students will leave the seminary,” he said. “We’ll continue to do what our people have done

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the European banks myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. European bank shares have hit a six-year high after lenders promised record shareholder returns and profits surged thanks to rising interest rates. The Stoxx Europe 600 Banks index reached its highest level for six years

David Pavon is a well-known figure on Bristol’s Gloucester Road, by repute the longest street of independent shops in the UK. He has run his deli — listed by the Financial Times as one of the world’s 50 greatest food stores a few years ago — for a decade and he has become part of

When I was a green young journalist making my way on a London society column, I remember hanging around the doors of the Groucho Club in Soho trying to talk my way in. Someone tapped my shoulder. It was the artist Peter Blake. He and his wife Chrissy, regulars at my father’s café, had known

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an FT contributing editor and writes the Chartbook newsletter In a world of polycrisis, in which intersecting problems compound each other and there are few easy wins, it is all the more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It isn’t quite true that the Premier League has conquered the world. Some atolls in the Bering Sea are holding out. Rumours persist of villages throughout the Eurasian Steppe where children are still allowed