Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-director of the UK’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge In 2000, two doctors at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital were watching a Formula 1 race on TV as they … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We welcome letters to the editor, so do share your opinions and experiences. To submit a letter for publication in the paper and online, email [email protected] or post to: Letters Editor Financial Times Bracken House … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Those of us who once worked with Boris Johnson have long had to get used to the notion of underachieving. Given that I am well paid to do the job I always wanted, this is … Read more
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
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the Labour party took power last July, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said that his government would promote economic “stability”. Yet its approach to managing Britain’s public finances has so far been rather … Read more
When I started working in the early ‘90s, earning £100,000 a year meant you’d made it. Proper money. The kind that freed you from Ryanair, and meant someone else would do your ironing and fold your towels into origami swans. Then tax, inflation and friends doing better than you happened. I’ve always worked, and mostly … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sometimes you have to take your own medicine. McKinsey & Co, the most blue-blooded of consultancies, has decimated its workforce over the past 18 months — the type of measure that its industry might commonly … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Paweł, a poultry farmer who lives in the Polish village of Garbatka-Letnisko, had to fire three of his 10 employees last year because they kept arriving drunk to work. “It’s hard to find good workers, … Read more
