Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
Europe must trim its welfare state to build a warfare state
The reawakening of Germany
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Call it a very big bazooka indeed, or Germany’s “whatever it takes” moment. There are few more striking signs of how Donald Trump is upturning the old world order than incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz’s epochal … Read more
Time for a workplace reset based on respect for colleagues
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Isabel Berwick writes the FT Working It newsletter and is author of ‘The Future-Proof Career’ I have now lost track of how many US organisations have backtracked on their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. What … Read more
Aim Isas’ fading appeal may actually help UK private businesses
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m one of the vanishingly small number of people who think inheritance tax is a cracking idea and very rational. Almost all the rest of the UK population hates it, which helps explain why there … Read more
Brisbane and Eastern Australia Brace for Powerful Cyclone Alfred
At least 15,000 people were ordered to evacuate, tens of thousands more were without power and flood rescues were already underway in a swath of Australia’s eastern coast in the track of Tropical Cyclone Alfred, projected to be the first to make landfall in the region in decades. Alfred was expected to come ashore Saturday … Read more
I told you last summer European stocks were a good idea
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Exactly a week after the summer solstice last year (all my investment views are inspired by the heavens) I wrote in this column that “ . . . a new asset class is jiggling my contrarian bones: European equities”. … Read more
The ‘Reeves effect’ turbo charges Isa season
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This Isa season is set be a bumper one, and we have chancellor Rachel Reeves to thank. Growing fears that she will meddle with this valuable, long-established tax break mean Britons are stuffing huge sums … Read more
What makes the Maga mindset different?
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world The recurring question in liberal circles during Donald Trump’s first term as US president was whether to take him seriously or literally. Seven weeks into his second term, it has so far been … Read more