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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. 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 … Read more
Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley
Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley
Even with low oil prices, Opec could come out on top
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Opec does two things well: produce oil and manage the market to its advantage. The cartel has long held that cutting production and keeping the oil price high beats selling more barrels at lower prices. … Read more
The great family saga is catnip for today’s readers — and writers too
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All happy families are alike, Leo Tolstoy proclaimed; each unhappy family is a gift to novelists and readers. If fiction writers pounce upon blazing feuds, lovingly nurtured grievances and icy estrangements as fodder for deathless … Read more
SXSW must keep its Austin soul as it comes to London
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There were pink T-shirts everywhere in a patch of east London last week as South by South West, the music, film and technology festival from Austin, Texas, came to the UK capital. Clusters of brightly … Read more
Rising debt burden puts UK on a trajectory of more volatility
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is professor of economics at King’s College, London, and a former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee The discussion on the UK fiscal position is focused on whether it is … Read more
Can social media help save democracy?
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is the winning entry in the 2025 FT Schools blog competition, run in partnership with the Political Studies Association and ShoutOut UK. Details of our free schools access programme are here. Can social media … Read more
Passengers flying cattle class need caviar too
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. What a switch for British Airways. In news that will astonish the many people I know who still insist on flying Abba, or Anyone But BA, one of the airline’s most high-end offerings is on a … Read more
Britain could have its own committee to save the world if it wanted
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and a former US Treasury official When Time magazine put Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers on its cover in 1999 as “The … Read more