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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. AstraZeneca’s chair has hit out at proxy advisers for “double standards” that “do serious harm” to the competitiveness of UK companies, after more than a third of the company’s shareholders voted against a potential £1.8mn

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chair of AstraZeneca The AGM season is in full swing, and with it comes the usual set of controversies around remuneration. AstraZeneca was among the first companies this year to receive votes

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The barrage of more than 300 armed drones and long-range missiles that Iran fired at Israel late on Saturday was met with an unparalleled defensive response. Ninety-nine per cent of the projectiles were intercepted, according

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this week, on the kind of grey and dreary evening that gives London a bad name, I sat down under a cherry tree. I took out a ballpoint pen and a pad of paper,

Lord Ken Clarke, former Conservative chancellor, has warned that an incoming Labour government would face the biggest set of problems of any new UK administration since the second world war. Clarke, who handed over a booming economy to Sir Tony Blair’s New Labour in 1997, said the circumstances today were completely different, given the sluggish

The three candidates shortlisted to become PwC’s next UK senior partner will fly to Dubai this month for what is set to be a crucial hustings in the race to succeed outgoing boss Kevin Ellis. PwC’s Middle East operation, which forms part of its UK business, is poised to play a key role in electing

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. It will take “decades” for Germany’s manufacturers to reduce their dependence on China, according to the chief financial officer of software technology group Siemens, highlighting the quandary facing western companies and their reliance on the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Serbia is expected to sign the largest weapons deal in its modern history with France, in a sign how Russia’s war in Ukraine is prompting one of Moscow’s closest allies to diversify its arms

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden condemned Iran’s “unprecedented” drone and missile attacks on Israel on Saturday night, as he called for a co-ordinated diplomatic response by the G7 to Tehran’s “brazen” assault. Biden said that the US military

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran has launched drones at Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said, following a suspected Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus that killed several senior Iranian officials. In a statement late on Saturday, Daniel

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Violence flared in the occupied West Bank on Saturday as settlers torched cars and buildings in Palestinian villages after the killing of an Israeli teenager in what the Israeli military said was a “terrorist attack”.

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have seized an Israeli-owned container ship in the latest escalation of hostilities between the Islamic republic and Israel. The capture of the ship comes as Tehran has been

Ukraine’s top commander warned that his outmanned and outgunned army is struggling to halt a multipronged and intensifying Russian offensive, as Kyiv pleads with western partners for more air defences and a critical military aid package remains stalled in the US Congress. “The situation on the eastern front has significantly worsened in recent days,” Ukrainian

A point is that which has no part.A line is breadthless length.The ends of a line are points.— Euclid Elk Mountain crests above a frozen moonscape, like a giant stone whale breaking through the snowy scrub plains of Carbon County, in southern Wyoming, in the great American West. It’s not an especially famous landmark, the

My maternal grandparents married in 1961, amid a man-made famine. On her wedding night, the bride walked home along streets shared by the bodies of the dead. Her colleagues had surprised her with an extravagant wedding gift — a handful of boiled sweets — which she held like gemstones in her pocket. My parents were

The writer is a technology analyst In 1946, my grandfather, writing as “Murray Leinster”, published a science fiction story called “A Logic Named Joe”. In it, everyone has a computer (a “logic”) connected to a global network that does everything from banking to newspapers and video calls. One day, one of these logics, Joe, starts

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In the novels of Ian McEwan, a pattern recurs. The main character makes a mistake — just one — which then hangs over them forever. A girl misidentifies a rapist, and in doing so

Wrongfooted investors and analysts have been forced to tear up their optimistic predictions of sweeping interest rate cuts this year as rising oil and metals prices add to inflationary pressures, reigniting fears that borrowing costs will have to stay ‘higher for longer’.  In a dramatic shift in sentiment, markets are now betting that the Federal

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US and the UK have launched a crackdown on trades in Russian metals, in a move designed to limit Moscow’s export revenue and restrict its ability to fund the war in Ukraine. The

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kristalina Georgieva has won a second five-year term as IMF managing director, ahead of the start of the fund’s spring meetings in Washington next week.  Georgieva, who has been in the role since the autumn

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A fondness for European defence stocks has been a somewhat oddball hobby for most of the last decade or two, but like V-neck jumpers, the sector is firmly back in fashion. So much so, in