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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 writer is author of ‘How to Be a Better Leader’ and is a visiting professor at Bayes Business School, City, University of London They are supposed to be the bridge between senior leaders and

A battle over workers’ rights is already prompting disquiet across UK boardrooms and will play a central role in the next general election campaign as Labour seeks to strengthen the role of unions in workplaces.  Banning zero-hour contracts, ending “fire and rehire” tactics and giving staff protection against unfair dismissal from day one are some

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ryanair is demanding compensation from Boeing for worsening aircraft delivery delays that have forced the airline to lower its forecasts for passenger numbers and warn it is on the cusp of cancelling some flights this

Amanda Lacaze, Lynas Rare Earths chief executive, said 2024 was a ‘transitional’ year © Lynas Rare Earths The world’s biggest miner of rare earths outside China posted a profit drop of more than 74 per cent for its first half on Monday amid weaker Chinese demand. Australia-based Lynas Rare Earths reported after-tax profit of A$39.5mn

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday he hoped a “firm and final agreement” on a temporary Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages could be reached “in the coming days”, after progress

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the US that Ukraine needs the $60bn aid currently stuck in a congressional stand-off within a month. Zelenskyy said the long-awaited package was about military not financial support and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination this weekend with a crushing 20-point victory over Nikki Haley in her home state that raised fresh questions about how much longer she can stay

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The widespread drop in global house prices that hit advanced economies has largely petered out, according to a Financial Times analysis of OECD data, leading economists to predict that the deepest property downturn in a

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is chief executive of Demos, a think-tank The next UK government will face a dizzying array of policy challenges. After the coming general election, ministers of any political persuasion will have to make

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. We cannot know if Vladimir Putin timed Alexei Navalny’s death to mark 10 years (give or take a few days) since his proxy Viktor Yanukovych’s removal as Ukrainian president after protests in Kyiv’s Independence

Russia is developing a new space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon, according to intelligence shared by the US government with Congress and European allies.  Few details are available, so it is hard to know how serious any potential threat might be. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives intelligence committee, said people “should not

In the depths below every iron-producing blast furnace lurks a salamander — an angry black and yellow mix of boiling iron, slag and coke, so named owing to the ancient belief that the amphibians were born in fires. “It’s the heart,” explains René Rockstroh, operations director of the blast furnaces at German steelmaker Salzgitter, as

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Journalists are notorious drama queens when it comes to their own industry. Still, this has been an undeniably bleak start to the year. So far in 2024 there have been lay-offs at The Wall Street Journal,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. You have to hand it to Nikki Haley, she is tenacious. After her fourth straight loss to Donald Trump, this time in her home state of South Carolina, Haley is still not quitting the Republican

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump has won the South Carolina Republican primary, inflicting another defeat on Nikki Haley in the race to win the party’s presidential nomination — this time in her home state. While Trump’s margin of

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Argentina’s libertarian leader Javier Milei and former US president Donald Trump have met for the first time, celebrating a shared goal of combating socialism even as Milei courts support from the Biden administration for his

Donald Trump on Saturday branded himself a “political dissident” facing persecution from “thugs” in the US justice system as he issued a dystopian rallying cry for voters to back his return to the White House. Trump was speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, a prominent gathering of activists that has been entirely

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lee Anderson, former Conservative deputy chair, has been suspended from the party after refusing to apologise for claiming that Islamists had “got control” of London and its centre-left mayor Sadiq Khan.  A spokesperson for Simon

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Russian officials have returned Alexei Navalny’s body to his mother after what the late opposition leader’s team described as a week of stalling, obfuscation and threats to let it rot. Officials in Salekhard, the city

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Warren Buffett has warned Berkshire Hathaway shareholders that his sprawling $905bn conglomerate has virtually “no possibility of eye-popping performance” in the years ahead, laying bare the challenges that will confront his successors. The so-called Oracle