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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Birmingham’s council will be forced to sell £750mn of assets and slash spending on public services by £300mn in order to claw its way out of a deep funding crisis, the council said on Monday.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is managing partner at Thoma Bravo The stampede of new Silicon Valley unicorns emerging into the world has thinned into a straggling herd. Venture capital firm Cowboy Ventures recently reported that of 532

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Georgia’s governor Brian Kemp has dismissed White House efforts to take credit for an investment boom in the US and said the Biden administration’s vast cleantech subsidies had fanned inflation in his state. The White

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. The Conservatives suffer a double blow, losing two safe seats to Labour, amid growing signs that Rishi Sunak’s party is losing votes to the populist Reform UK party. The FT’s Lucy Fisher is joined by political

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2020, Alexei Navalny somehow survived being poisoned — almost certainly by Russian security agents — with a military-grade nerve agent. Now, after years of mistreatment in custody, Russia’s prison service says he has died

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hedge funds have piled into the cocoa market since the end of last year, exacerbating a record-breaking surge in prices sparked by poor harvests in West Africa.   Speculative traders have amassed an $8.7bn bet across

Your browser does not support playing this file but you can still download the MP3 file to play locally. In this episode we’re discussing the new novel Fourteen Days. The book is a collaboration by 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Celeste Ng, RL Stine, and Dave Eggers – and part of the experience

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “grow the economy” suffered a serious blow on Thursday as official figures showed Britain entered a technical recession at the end of 2023. Labour claimed the prime minister’s promises on the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is chief executive of Google and Alphabet  Last year saw rapid and significant technological change powered by progress in artificial intelligence. Millions of people are now using AI tools to learn new things,

It started when I found myself staring at a tabletop in a restaurant in Nottingham. I’d recently read Filterworld by Kyle Chayka, which, among many other brilliant things, analyses how independent hospitality businesses are, for the first time in history, intimately connected by social media. Design trends no longer spread organically, but spring up apparently

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When office rental company WeWork filed for bankruptcy last year, founder Adam Neumann described its collapse as “hard to watch from the sidelines”. He did not stay there for long. Neumann has plans to regain

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When a chief executive asks for trillions, not billions, when raising funds you know a sector may be getting a bit too hot. In the long run, generative artificial intelligence will transform many industries and

It is a widely held view, and most likely cor­rect, that the cold war was won through an arms race in which — simply put — the Soviet Union just could not sus­tain the drain upon its rel­at­ively lim­ited resources. The dif­fer­ence today is that Vladi­mir Putin only has Rus­sia and not all of the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is intensifying efforts to meet Kim Jong Un, as he pushes for a diplomatic breakthrough with the North Korean leader in a bid to save his faltering premiership. The summit

By Benni Allan I am often asked what my favourite building is in London and, usually, it depends on what kind of day you catch me on. Recently, however, I have been reflecting on the spaces that offer me a sense of calm, while at the same time encouraging me to think creatively amid the

Your leader (February 8) says the US Supreme Court “must make it explicitly clear that Trump is subject to the same law as everyone else”. If the court is to be explicitly clear, it must answer the following question: if enough states keep him on the ballot, and he wins, can he hold office again?

Rachel Reeves has sharply curtailed Labour’s potential revenue-raising options by ruling out a lengthy list of tax reforms, drastically limiting the party’s fiscal room for manoeuvre if it wins power, analysts have warned.  The shadow chancellor has pledged not to lift capital gains tax, income tax and national insurance, nor introduce a mansion tax. Instead

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Elon Musk has shifted the incorporation of his brain-implant company Neuralink to Nevada, deepening a rift with the state of Delaware where a judge recently voided the entrepreneur’s $56bn pay package from Tesla. The change

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BASF is to accelerate the sale of its stakes in two plants in Xinjiang, following “serious allegations” of human rights abuse by employees of its local joint venture partner. The German chemical company, which has

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last year, Norway’s $1.5tn sovereign wealth fund revealed that it had lost NKr980mn, roughly $92mn, on an error relating to how it calculated its mandated benchmark. Here’s what Norges Bank Investment Management said at the