Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dreams are a strange phenomenon: often a conversational bore in real life, when transformed into fiction they become the bedrock for some of our most engaging literature. From Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland fantasies to the horrors … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The armed services have a long tradition of carefully calibrated deference. In the US, for example, a humble one-star general only merits a ceremonial eleven-gun salute. In contrast, crews fire their guns 21 times for … 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 unfolding drama of global trade tensions, Japan once again finds itself a target of US pressure. But unlike the 1980s, when the conflict centred on a rising US trade deficit fuelled by Japanese … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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 … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Australian producers are often asked for “red dirt or white sand stories” when pitching TV shows to an international audience. The desolation and threatening aura of the outback, or the sprawling beaches festooned with surfies … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world On Monday morning traders woke up to signals of carnage across their screens. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index closed down over 13 per cent, marking its worst single-day fall since 1997. In Europe, … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is affiliate professor at ESCP Business School Paris, senior researcher at Square Management and a Dauphine University fellow On February 28, the president of the European Commission visited Delhi to accelerate a comprehensive trade … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wall Street bosses thought they were getting the “art of the deal” when Donald Trump won the US election. The reality looks more Jackson Pollock than Rembrandt. Asset managers, in particular, have been pummeled. The … Read more
