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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. Am I the most resented person in Britain? I thought I’d ticked all the boxes that society loves to rib you for: I trained in real estate, worked for an investment bank, then in private … Read more

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Twenty years ago this week a group of surgical interns entered Seattle Grace Hospital and began their residency, little knowing that they were joining one of the most successful medical dramas in US television … Read more

Philippe Sereys de Rothschild is unnervingly like his late mother, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, of Bordeaux first growth Ch Mouton Rothschild. He has the same breathless delivery of clipped English and easy charm. “God, you’re early,” was how he greeted me in the lobby of The Connaught hotel in London, where we were due to … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The problem for European investors in disentangling themselves from the US is that, deliberately or otherwise, they are in deep. Portfolios everywhere, retail and institutional, are stuffed to the gills with US stocks. This can … Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that he had signed perhaps more than 300 letters revoking the visas of students, visitors and others to force their expulsion from the United States because of their foreign policy views or criminal activities. He has been signing letters daily to revoke visas since taking office in late January, … Read more

A dachshund lost in Australia is still alive after more than a year, and still apparently wearing her pink collar. But she has proved elusive to recapture. The tale begins in November 2023 when a couple took their pet miniature dachshund, Valerie, to Kangaroo Island off the coast of Adelaide. But Valerie escaped from her … Read more

The bogus trade rationale for the Signalgate attacks

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In Britain, the surnames Smith and Jones are equally common. Yet WHSmith’s switch from one to the other is anything but. The sale of its UK stores and their rebranding as TG Jones is a … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice-cream brand owned by Unilever, is known for its quirky concoctions of natural ingredients. From Cherry Garcia, the flavour named after a co-founder of the Grateful Dead, to Phish Food, … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Talk of uniting Europe’s financial markets has for more than a decade been mostly just that: talk. So now the EU has scaled back its ambitions. Rather than being disappointed, however, executives at many of … Read more