Who is Manchester United’s new stadium for?

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the FT’s architecture and design critic It’s an oddity that the Premier League is the most successful football league in the world but the best club football stadiums are all, pretty much, … Read more

Dark clouds dull US rooftop solar prospects

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The roof is buckling for solar panel companies. Last summer, SunPower, a big residential installer, filed for bankruptcy protection. One of its rivals, Sunnova, has warned it may be next. Longer interest rates and an … Read more

The real political challenge in running the NHS

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 senior policy analyst for the Nuffield Trust, a think-tank The prime minister and his health secretary may have presented the abolition of NHS England as a move to democratise the NHS … Read more

European defence companies should make love as well as war

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In most industries, a pumped-up acquisition currency, terrific top-line growth and constrained capacity would bring M&A bankers running. Not in European defence, though. Traditionally, cross-border deals in particular have been hard to envisage. But the … Read more

Maybe it is a healthy correction

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. A terrible Michigan consumer sentiment survey landed Friday morning, showing unease about the economy for households across income … Read more

Trump’s incoherent economic agenda

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world It now appears that neither a slowing economy nor plunging stock prices are enough to deter US President Donald Trump from his radical economic agenda. Beyond promising to buy a Tesla to prop … Read more

Make public service work again

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 non-executive director at the UK Department of Health and Social Care  It’s not a chainsaw. Even as Sir Keir Starmer was promising to reshape the state this week, his science secretary … Read more