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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. Clearly, things are looking dicey for globalisation: fun while it lasted, no doubt, and an admirably long stint as the conceptual spirit animal of political leaders, corporate chieftains and end-of-history historians. But when America’s vice-president rails … Read more
Planting frenzy is beginning. Nurseries are open, those backbones of the biodiversity in British gardens. There is plenty to buy and in Britain we are all still spoilt for choice. Before I start a new season’s choosing, I like to go to a garden on a soil different from my own to see the last … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. “Ah, look at all the lonely people.” When The Beatles bemoaned the solitary existence and unmourned death of Eleanor Rigby it was 1966, and a cup of tea would have cost you a few … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. Donald Trump’s car tariffs were felt in the market yesterday, but unevenly. Big US carmakers GM and Ford … Read more
Los delfines silban. Las ballenas cantan. Los peces croan, trinan, bufan, canturrean y gruñen. Pero una voz faltaba en el parloteo del mar… hasta ahora. Durante mucho tiempo los tiburones han sido vistos como los asesinos silenciosos del agua. Sin embargo, científicos de la Universidad de Auckland, en Nueva Zelanda, grabaron recientemente a un tiburón … Read more
‘Not quite enough’ may prove to be Labour’s epitaph
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Closing her Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves was bold, placing it in the context of a world changing before our eyes. The government was “not retreating from challenges; not stepping back”, the chancellor said. Instead it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s public finances are still a problem in need of a serious fix. After higher borrowing costs and weak growth knocked her spending plans off course, chancellor Rachel Reeves pulled off a makeshift repair job … Read more
My daughter has asked if I can help pay for her son’s private school fees as she is struggling with higher mortgage rates and increased cost of living. I am in a position financially to help, but is there anything I should think about before I say yes? For example, would this impact inheritance tax? … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sorry everyone — it was my fault. A month ago my editor routinely asked me what I was writing about next. I said a celebration of my portfolio increasing by a hundred grand since the … Read more