Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking,” wrote the lay theologian and children’s author CS Lewis in 1952. “Hope is … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Sage Group’s shares surged 19 per cent in November as it announced its full-year results, it said something about how unreliable the UK’s largest software company had become. It raised its dividend and announced … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the 1980s, the Honda Accord transformed the US market. At a time when American roads were dominated by oversized, gas-guzzling sedans, the Accord stood apart, compact, fuel efficient and reliable. By 1989, it had … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pope Francis, who died on Monday, once compared reforming Rome to cleaning the Sphinx of Egypt with a toothbrush. For someone possessed of papal infallibility, that’s a frank admission that the power of supposedly divinely … 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 is time to retire the phrase: “When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold.” Said to have first been used in relation to Napoleonic France, that idiom lost its … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Harvard University’s oldest-standing building, the Massachusetts Hall, was used as an army barracks during the Revolutionary war. Fierce conflict is therefore no novelty. But the onslaught posed by the Trump administration, which threatens financial devastation … 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. Fresh spring days encourage even the laziest to get back on their bikes. Shares in UK cycling and motoring retailer Halfords have recently enjoyed a moment in the sun following a better than expected update. … Read more
