Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Techworld is abuzz with how artificial intelligence agents are going to augment, if not replace, humans in the workplace. But the present-day reality of agentic AI falls well short of the future promise. What happened when … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sitting in his Oasis-themed bar, surrounded by merchandise and memorabilia, Paul Gallagher ponders Manchester’s relationship with one of its most famous musical exports. “There’s not actually that much to see in Manchester, Oasis-wise,” he muses, … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world In the late 1960s, after the discovery of natural gas deposits in the North Sea, the Dutch economy changed dramatically over a relatively short period. In 1964, the country had exported almost no … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is an FT contributing editor, chief economist at American Compass and writes the Understanding America newsletter The Trump administration’s immigration policy has assumed the “will they, won’t they” character of a mediocre … Read more
Bigger picture or local ups and downs: to which should we look in order to plan for the best? Investors live with this question but so do gardeners, whose dilemmas are often similar. For gardeners the bigger picture is the warming climate. The local question is how it will affect that important little space, their … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon Prime Day is often referred to as Black Friday in July. For good reasons. What started out as a one-day event back in 2015 for shoppers to snag discounts on big-ticket items has morphed … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hold the joe, Joe. Donald Trump’s puzzling tariff swipe this week at Brazil was enough to make any US coffee drinker fear they’d reached for the decaf by mistake. The South American powerhouse is their … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Will the last person to leave Britain please turn off the lights?” That was the Sun’s infamous headline, in 1992, which Neil Kinnock blamed for his losing the election to John Major. It came to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If we are what we watch, then this column was written by Jerry Seinfeld, or maybe Tony Soprano. Or a combination of the two, although I’m not sure Tony Seinfeld sounds menacing enough to cut … Read more
