Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The truism that the future is uncertain is made more concrete when the principal guest at a conference on a Swiss mountain has declared a trade war for territory against his country’s closest … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer has come under pressure from two potential leadership rivals from the left of the Labour Party as both Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham made high-profile interventions. In her strongest political broadside since … Read more
With flattery, coaxing and carefully-couched arguments, European leaders have spent much of the past 12 months desperately trying to win the respect of Donald Trump. This morning they woke up to see those efforts thrown back in their faces, as the US president switched from threatening the continent to pure mockery. In the space of … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Netflix has sought to win over wavering Warner Bros Discovery shareholders with the promise of an amended all-cash offer for its studio and streaming businesses. On Tuesday, WBD said that its board had unanimously backed … 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 Historical sensibility tells us it is the barbarians who storm the gates. In today’s America, it is the other way round. Inside the citadel, the hordes are incinerating America’s traditions of law, civility … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK has approved China’s application to build a “mega” embassy in London despite fierce opposition and concerns over espionage, after security officials said they had devised a range of protective measures. The decision, announced … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Airlines myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Elon Musk has asked his followers on social media site X whether he should buy Ryanair, in the escalation of a dispute that began when Michael O’Leary ruled out adding Starlink internet to the airline’s planes. … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 days Good morning. Keir Starmer gave a press conference yesterday about the Greenland crisis. Some thoughts on something … Read more
For decades, the slogan most used about the Arctic was “High North, Low Tension”. Then came Donald Trump. The US president’s push to take over Greenland has not just shocked European leaders with what they see as a brutal assault on Denmark, a Nato ally. It has also upended decades of relative peace in the … Read more
US President Donald Trump said he had agreed to a meeting of “various parties” over Greenland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, after holding a “very good” telephone call with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte. On his Truth Social platform on Tuesday, Trump wrote: “I had a very good telephone call with Mark Rutte, the … Read more