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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. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russia’s Vladimir Putin in 2022 that “today’s era is not the era for war”. These are words that Modi and his counterpart in Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, should keep in … 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 former head of Citigroup’s emerging markets investments and author of ‘The Gathering Storm’ India’s missile strikes against Pakistan this week have significantly escalated tensions with its nuclear-armed neighbour, marking the deepest incursion … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Carvana knows a lot about dramatic changes of speed. The online car-reseller boomed during the pandemic, only to slump later. Now it is roaring ahead again. But chief executive Ernie Garcia insists, plausibly, that this … Read more
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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. Nathanael Williams was a musician and gig promoter before he became the co-owner of two of London’s most well-loved nightclubs: Colour Factory in Hackney Wick and Jumbi in Peckham. It is, he says, less glamorous … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Geopolitics myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin “There are changes happening, the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years. And we are the ones driving these changes together,” Chinese … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How should outsiders want the trade war between the US and China to end? They should want both to lose. True, Donald Trump’s approach is far worse than intellectually incoherent: it is lethal for any … 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 Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all … Read more