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
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. You have to wonder how much cash Ridley Scott would have saved on special effects had he filmed Blade Runner in Kuala Lumpur. That noirish thing he was going for — the rain, the … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. I’ve never been one to follow faddy beauty fashions — I’m deeply sceptical about treatments that promise to embalm one in the veneer of eternal youth. But time’s a bitch, I’m six years older … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British banks do not like talking about commercial property. Offices, retail and industrial buildings left them with big losses during the financial crisis. Actions speak louder than words, however, and lenders have been quietly flocking … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We can leave the flowers outside for the rabbits, or you can give them to someone who can’t afford flowers for their funeral.” It was at this point in the conversation with the undertaker that … Read more
