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Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump once said that tariff was the most beautiful word. After the markets closed on Wednesday, he declared “liberation day” in its honour. To America’s trading partners, April 2 will mark the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is pro-vice-chancellor for innovation at the University of Cambridge The Oxford-Cambridge Arc growth corridor, which will unlock over £78bn for the UK economy by 2035, is becoming something of an anchor project for … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Middle Eastern politics & society myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ and an FT contributing editor For a brief few weeks in December and January, Lebanon and Syria were in a bubble of euphoria. In December, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world One conservative television empire is — unsurprisingly — thriving in the age of President Donald Trump. Can a second find similar success? Hoping to replicate, if not challenge, Fox Corporation, Newsmax went public … Read more
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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. It is hard being everyone’s favourite. Raspberry Pi is both last year’s UK initial public offering success story and the poster child for British start-ups. And that is on top of its day job making … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s official statistics are doubly disconcerting. They currently convey a subdued economy, and may also be unreliable. Britain’s policymakers have had to make do with provisional jobs data for over 18 months while the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In 1486, Dame Juliana Berners published a seminal list of collective nouns. Controversially, she included a “drunkenness of cobblers” and a “disworship [disgrace] of Scots”. This must have been a bitter blow for Caledonian … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past two decades, Japan’s per capita alcohol consumption has plunged by more than a quarter. Once a staple of workplace bonding and a steady stream of government revenue, alcohol is now falling out … Read more
