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 lecturer in economic and social history at Glasgow university. His latest book is ‘Coal Country’ The future of the UK’s last blast furnaces at Scunthorpe steelworks hangs in the balance. … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Corporate whistleblowers are rarely celebrated. More often they are seen as the enemy within — marginalised or blacklisted after speaking out. Little wonder that there is a push in the UK to create an independent … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world For all the market dislocation caused by Donald Trump’s trade war over the past two weeks, things could have been much worse. Ironically, investors — and the Trump administration — may need to … 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 president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy The image of business leaders, governments and investors having to drink out of a US policy fire hose … 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 UK-based comedian and founder of a new charity The Rosie Jones Foundation When I started work in 2011, I quickly became part of the new employee tour. “This is the kitchen, … Read more
The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’ I have recently started hearing a new complaint from employers: that their workers are not free thinkers. One said the highly educated graduates they hired from top universities were “well-credentialed and present effectively” and “excellent at taking instruction”. But the employer was concerned: … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US-China trade war has escalated to new heights. This week Donald Trump focused his protectionist zeal firmly on his longtime economic foe. On Wednesday, the US president paused “reciprocal” tariffs — above a 10 … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenalis (“Juvenal”) decried the political phenomenon of “bread and circuses”. Back in AD100, the Roman empire was crushed by so much debt and income inequality … Read more
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 FT newsletters Welcome back. Now that Donald Trump has paused his “reciprocal” tariff plans (as predicted in last week’s newsletter), … 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 associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace There has been justified concern this month that the chaos unleashed on financial markets around the world by the Trump administration’s “liberation … Read more