Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Frank O. Gehry, one of the most influential architects of the modern age, has died aged 96. He achieved global fame with his billowing, sculptural designs such as the Guggenheim Bilbao in 1997, a building … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The French army intercepted five drones spotted flying over a nuclear submarine base on its north Atlantic coast as Europe remains on high alert for foreign interference at sensitive sites. Defence minister Catherine Vautrin confirmed … Read more
Hollywood’s old guard was long dismissive of the idea that Netflix could one day upend the establishment entertainment industry. “It’s a little bit like, ‘Is the Albanian army going to take over the world? I don’t think so’,” Jeff Bewkes, the former chief executive of Warner Bros’ parent company, said in 2010. But on Friday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reform UK has expelled the leader of Staffordshire county council, one of its most senior local government figures, after investigating past racist posts from a social media account associated with him. The party began a … Read more
In early 2019, a suited man with short silver hair arrived at the offices of Nigel Farage’s Brexit party in central London and began settling in ahead of the European elections that May. Christopher Harborne, who had recently given the party £200,000, set up several work screens along with a coffee machine and a fridge … 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 The writer is a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a professor at the University of Denver Over the past four months, US President Donald Trump has … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Netflix prides itself on being good at hard things. There is some evidence to back up this self-belief. The company co-founded by Reed Hastings started off renting DVDs by post, and managed to parlay that … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As stock market valuations richen despite almost palpable unease among many investors, the nagging question as to whether we’re now in a bubble continues to circulate. Sure, Mark Zuckerberg reckons “collapse” is “definitely a possibility” … Read more
The EU is demanding that there should be no limit on the number of people who can use a youth mobility scheme with the UK in a move that sets up a fresh confrontation between London and Brussels. A draft EU text of a proposed agreement seen by the Financial Times states that both sides … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Swamp Notes newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Monday and Friday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters People often wonder how cash-strapped Russia could so easily intimidate Europe. The answer is willpower. Russia is … Read more