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Sweden: a socialist paradise overflowing with billionaires

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Genetic testing company 23andMe’s bankruptcy filing in March looked like a glum end to a short, troubled life. The stock had crashed from a peak of $320 in 2021 to less than $2 in March. … 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, director of economics of Public First Consultancy, served as an education adviser to the last UK government In 1997 Tony Blair and the Labour party won power with the slogan “Education, education, education” … 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

The scourge of the ‘woke right’

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 latest part of the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign Online scams are big business. In the EU, according to the most recent figures, online scammers defrauded consumers out of €4.3bn … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I was due to return to my job in the coming days following maternity leave. As I have been diagnosed as autistic, my employer stipulated that I need to be signed off by occupational health … Read more

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Investment banking is a people business. Clients pay generous fees in the hope of getting smart advice from analytical thinkers; relationships are managed deftly by silver-tongued advisers. An experiment by UBS raises the question of … 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 a historian and public speaker What to do when the party’s over? When the function you were bred to perform is no longer there? These are questions facing the remaining hereditary members … Read more

The battle for London’s park life