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
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 director and screenwriter In 2014, I directed the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of the Booker Prize. In 2023, I shot The Mirror … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bit by bit, one by one, they started to come out. After days of market mayhem, America’s billionaires finally did something this week that few top bosses have done since Donald Trump took … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The tariffs ruckus of the past week has etched extra frown lines on foreheads. For those who like to use “injectable aesthetics” to smooth out their crows’ feet — for which read Botox and similar … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world America under Donald Trump is an emerging market. That’s my takeaway from the last few days of tariff chaos and its fallout. When I first raised this idea last October, I pointed out that … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In a cramped basement in Kyiv, a ragtag team of volunteers, including a florist, a professional dancer, a 77-year-old pensioner and a British ex-serviceman, are assembling drones for the Ukrainian army. Basic in design and … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump called his announcement of huge, self-destructive tariffs “liberation day”. For the financial markets, some liberation from the ensuing days of turmoil came a week later when the US president U-turned, and … Read more
British wine lovers are so lucky. We may pay through the nose for our pleasures via the increasingly complicated taxation of our favourite liquid, and wine prices are likely to rise even further towards October when the government will start collecting EPR payments from retailers. (EPR no longer stands for my FT predecessor Edmund Penning-Rowsell, … Read more
