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When anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders secured the most votes in Dutch elections last year, his breakthrough was seen as a harbinger of how the far right could seize power in Europe. But four months on, he remains shut out, with mainstream parties in the Netherlands closing ranks to force his Freedom party to give up

The congressional Republicans who spearheaded investigations into antisemitism on US college campuses are turning their focus on the Qatari government, one of the largest donors to American universities over the past decade. The line of inquiry, led by Republicans on the US House’s education committee, focuses on suggestions among conservative activists that Qatari funding has

Mike Lynch, once one of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs, is set to go on trial in San Francisco on Monday, 13 years after what US prosecutors have called “the largest fraud in the history” of Silicon Valley. Lynch, who sold his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11.7bn in 2011, faces charges that

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The chief executive of British American Tobacco has dismissed the idea of moving the company’s listing from London to New York as a “distraction”, after it emerged that the top-10 shareholder who pushed for the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If there was one phrase guaranteed to have an immediate chilling effect on my behaviour as a child, it was not the classic “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed” line, but a much crueller and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Taiwanese security experts and retired military officials close to the opposition Kuomintang have called for drastic reforms to make the country’s energy sector less vulnerable against a Chinese attack. A war game conducted by the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nato’s European members need to find an extra €56bn a year to meet the alliance’s defence spending target, but the shortfall has halved in the past decade, according to research by Germany’s Ifo Institute for

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. An incoming Labour government could find itself with “more money to play with” than many expect, according to Lord Nick Macpherson, the top official at the UK Treasury for more than a decade. Macpherson said

It had been more than 40 years since Anne Marie Allen lived and worked at Ballyglunin Park, but she still took the servants’ driveway up to the house. We parked in the shadow of the large grey manor, and a young man came out to beckon us in from the buffeting Irish wind. Anne Marie

Jay Gatsby, Albert Einstein, Frodo Baggins, John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Michael Milken, Bernard Madoff, Charles Ponzi — the list of people to whom Sam Bankman-Fried has been compared is an extraordinary one. He seems destined to be remembered alongside those last three names, after being convicted

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In Kuala Lumpur, I stay awake until dawn to watch a Champions League game eight time zones away. The city twitches into life just as the team from coastal Portugal scores a late winner

The closer Donald Trump gets to the 2024 presidential election, the longer he will be spending in courtrooms and away from the campaign trail as he faces dozens of charges in four separate criminal cases. An unprecedented and busy legal calendar will be a growing drain on Trump’s time as well as financial resources —

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Joe Biden appeared to deepen his rift with Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, publicly praising a top Democrat’s remarks that called for the Israeli prime minister’s removal as a “good speech” that expressed “concerns” shared by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Talks on a UK-India trade deal, originally scheduled to conclude before Diwali in October 2022, have been put on ice until after India’s general election later this spring following the failed final efforts to find

A below-the-radar trip to Venezuela by Boris Johnson to meet autocratic president Nicolás Maduro was arranged by a hedge fund manager interested in normalising diplomatic relations between London and Caracas, according to people familiar with the matter. Former JPMorgan banker Maarten Petermann, co-founder of London-based Merlyn Advisors, organised the former UK prime minister’s visit by

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,