Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was not meant to be like this. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility was established to ensure UK governments fixed their finances instead of fiddling the figures. But 15 years on, we are witnessing … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company they called Micro-Soft 50 years ago this week, it was to sell a version of the Basic computer language for the Altair, the first proto-PC. Their … Read more
President Trump’s tariffs have spared almost no corner of the Earth. Even tiny, sparsely populated islands that export close to nothing. Among the countries and territories listed on sheets of paper that were distributed to reporters in the White House Rose Garden on Wednesday were Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australian territories near Antarctica where … Read more
How our social structures shape our DNA — and vice versa
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There are few outright winners from a global trade war. But tariffs are a blunt instrument. Sometimes, large headline numbers don’t fully reflect a sector’s exposure — which can create opportunities for sharp-eyed investors. Irish … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. In the last two weeks I have visited Beijing and Hong Kong. This visit made clear that in today’s world, the US is a revolutionary — more precisely, a reactionary — power, while … 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 Schreiber Family Professor of Economics at Brown University On March 23, Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu — who has twice defeated President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party in municipal elections — was formally … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Just tell me how things will end up!” It’s a question on many minds as the global economy undergoes a genuine paradigm shift that goes well beyond the US tariff announcement currently shocking … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on US universities. How far will it go? Will it trigger a brain drain? And could other countries replace what’s lost? I discussed this with Lee … Read more
