Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Donald Trump was 18 when a foreigner put his adored Monroe Doctrine to the test. In 1964, Charles de Gaulle toured Latin America, where he agitated against US influence over the region and offered France … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Robert Jenrick has announced a significant policy U-turn for Reform UK on the contentious two-child benefit cap, as he set out a more conservative economic policy platform in his role as the party’s newly minted … Read more
US-mediated negotiations between Ukraine and Russia ended on Wednesday with some progress on the monitoring of a future ceasefire, including potential American involvement, but with no breakthrough on the most contentious political issues, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The talks in Switzerland that began on Tuesday came as Europe’s largest conflict since the second world war … Read more
Giving birth is getting riskier, midwives are stretched to exhaustion and families must navigate a lottery of care
Victor Riparbelli, the Danish chief executive and founder of Synthesia, is on a mission to reinvent video content. Synthesia, which was set up in London in 2017 as a platform that used AI to offer lip-syncing and dubbing services for film and TV productions, has grown to become one of the UK’s most valuable AI … Read more
Bending the UK’s fiscal rules would risk a bond market backlash and a self-defeating rise in borrowing costs
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Volkswagen has attracted bids from top private equity funds including Blackstone, EQT and CVC for its Everllence division, bolstering its plans to sell off the shipping engines unit. The deadline for initial offers for the … Read more
Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation fell sharply to 3 per cent in January, strengthening the case for the Bank of England to cut interest rates as soon as its next meeting in March. Wednesday’s figure from the Office … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. David Silver, one of Britain’s top AI researchers, is raising $1bn for a new company aiming to build “superhuman intelligence” in a deal led by Sequoia Capital that would be the largest seed round ever … Read more