Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Kemi Badenoch’s rejection of the 2050 net zero target her Conservative party put into law six years ago is, as they say, a shock but no surprise. Not a day has passed this month without … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world There’s a genre of Maga anthropology, known as the “Trump safari”, which involves writers flying into deindustrialised Midwestern towns to ask white working-class people in local diners why they support Donald Trump. The … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “Stock vigilantes” is a term that only recently entered the markets vernacular. It is time to retire it again equally swiftly. It refers to the idea that if the going gets tough, and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan lost its edge in chips decades ago — to chip designers in the US and manufacturers in Taiwan and South Korea. Since the 1990s, the gap has only widened. The world’s most advanced silicon, … Read more
When she spotted the mako shark in the Hauraki Gulf off New Zealand, Rochelle Constantine, a marine ecologist at the University of Auckland, was concerned. The animal had a curious orangey-brown mass perched on top of its head. “At first, I was like, ‘Is it a buoy?’” Dr. Constantine said. “‘Is it entangled in fishing … 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 founder and chief executive of Everett Capital Advisors and chair and co-founder of Agio Ratings Digital assets are going mainstream, turbocharged by recent endorsements from the US administration. If properly implemented, a … Read more
This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters This week presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin “negotiated” the future of Ukraine over the heads of Ukraine … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The “business hospice” is how some companies are describing the final destination for corporate operations at risk of being wiped out by artificial intelligence. Orchestrating a soft landing for people working in such activities is … 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 White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world “We will never, ever, in any way, shape or form be part of the United States,” says Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister, about Donald Trump’s designs on his country. “It’s crazy. It’s … Read more