Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The exponential power of scientific innovation has been on show in recent days. In a series of demonstration videos, Google DeepMind unveiled that it had trained a robot to fold an origami fox, organise a … Read more
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 irreverent, unrepentantly political Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap welcomed a special guest onto the stage of its show in Melbourne, Australia, over St. Patrick’s Day weekend: the head of King George V, which appeared to be a missing piece of a statue that was decapitated in the city last year. “Some madman dropped by … 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 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
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
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
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
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
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The writer is chair and chief executive of Stifel Financial Corporation A move by President Donald Trump to create a sovereign wealth fund for the US is a significant initiative that could bolster … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Real estate is cheap.” It was a surprising comment to hear in response to a talk I gave recently in New York on luxury residential markets — especially given I was discussing Manhattan apartments, which … Read more