Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. During the past couple of weeks I think I’ve paid more attention to global financial news than ever before. Regardless of the varying degrees to which any of us are, and will be, directly … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Not for the first time, I am dressed in my finery and standing outside a nightclub, questioning my life choices, blinking into the sunlight. Luckily for everyone involved, it’s 4.30pm not 4.30am, and I … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Neil Woodford picked an auspicious week to try a resurrection. The former UK fund manager, whose eponymous investment boutique collapsed in 2019, announced plans for a new “investment strategy platform” — dubbed “W4.0” — on … Read more
In early February I was coming back from a lovely sunny break in Marrakech and had to attend a dinner, immediately before the increasingly successful Wine Paris trade fair, to accept an award on behalf of my Australian wine writer colleague James Halliday. Not surprisingly, there are multiple flights from Marrakech to Paris, so it … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Either the mighty US mom-and-pop investor base knows something we don’t, or it’s heading for a bruising. Right now, the amateurs are sitting pretty. Domestic retail investors were, by all accounts, conspicuously active buyers of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a scene in India’s cinematic masterpiece Pather Panchali — or Song of the Little Road, the first film of “The Apu Trilogy” by Satyajit Ray — in which the child protagonist Apu is … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Near the start of Stalingrad, the first part of Vasily Grossman’s epic duology on Russia and totalitarianism during the second world war, two characters have a heated exchange. At the heart of their … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bankers and consultants have long touted the opportunities of emerging Asia’s rapidly expanding middle classes to their clients. As incomes have risen, foreign direct investment has duly flooded in, fuelling further growth. But in recent … Read more
Easter activates gardeners, giving them four days to work in their gardens, notice the gaps and shop to fill them. It comes after a testing time. In most of Britain the weather of the previous six weeks has been generally dry and the nights very chilly. I hate this combination for new plantings, but there have been … Read more
