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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. One of the more curious anecdotes to emerge from the revolutionary era in late 18th-century France was that of a young peasant man named Tarrare with an extraordinary ability. Tarrare rose to fame as a

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Capital markets myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Volatility indices linked to US and European corporate bonds will debut next week as highly indebted companies and their lenders attempt to navigate an environment of drastically higher interest rates. The four “credit Vix” indices, which

Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Rishi Sunak has defended his plan to axe the HS2 high speed rail line to Manchester, criticising the “enormous” cost of the project and saying he was prepared to take tough decisions. The

The family office of secretive billionaire Harald McPike has accused US gaming investor Jason Ader of fraudulently inducing it into backing his special purpose acquisition company because he was under pressure to return $16mn to his mother. Rimu Capital alleges Ader pocketed the $25mn it had invested in the Spac to use for his “own

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US head of Siemens has urged companies to sell voters on the benefits of the Biden administration’s industrial policy, warning that a change of government could imperil the tax breaks and subsidies needed to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The World Health Organization has approved a malaria vaccine made by Oxford university that has shown sustained protection in children, marking a turning point in the treatment of the disease. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s

It was not the upbeat start to the Conservatives’ annual conference that Rishi Sunak would have hoped for. As the grassroots gathered in Manchester on Sunday, the Tories’ favourite mayor declared that he would not bet on the party winning the general election, while future leadership contenders were accused of jostling for position. Lord Ben

This article — one of the winning entries in the 2023 FT/World Bank student blog competition — is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here. Who is responsible for learning losses from Covid-19? Is it the Kazakh government which failed to provide internet to remote areas of the country within the first

Receive free Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Markets news every morning. Global bond markets rebounded on Friday at the end of a quarter of heavy losses, helped by signs of easing inflation in the eurozone. Yields on European sovereign debt slid after data showed that the

There have been a lot of juicy headlines of late about behavioural science, including the one on Tim Harford’s Undercover Economist FT Magazine column “What’s behind the detective drama rocking academia” (Opinion, September 2). Most have focused on the falsification of data and on the issue around “replications”, those studies that check whether older experimental

Receive free The Top Line updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest The Top Line news every morning. For a while French cement group Lafarge operated a plant in North Korea, about 40km from Pyongyang — except it didn’t, really. The expat supposedly running the facility sat in the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK water company Severn Trent will raise £1bn through a new share issue to support plans for infrastructure investment to reduce water leakage and cut sewage outflows. The FTSE 100-listed utility, which provides water and

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The arrival of Igor Levit added a new personality to the top echelon of pianists. Here was a musician motivated by setting himself the most challenging intellectual goals and taking his audiences with him. His

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. White Britons die at higher rates than any other ethnic group, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics. This finding comes despite the disproportionate impact of Covid on ethnic minorities and the

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Long before ChatGPT, British director Oscar Sharp released Sunspring (2016), a short film “written” by an AI trained on sci-fi screenplays. (The result can be found on YouTube: still impressively weird.) At many times the budget,

GDP: The US will release its final estimate for its second-quarter economic growth, with economists polled by LSEG expecting gross domestic product to hold steady at its second reading of a 2.1 per cent annualised increase. Fedspeak: US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell will speak before educators in Washington at 4pm Eastern time. Earlier in

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Welcome to Due Diligence, your briefing on dealmaking, private equity and corporate finance. This article is an on-site version of the newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent to your inbox every Tuesday

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France is exploring ways to cap national electricity prices without falling foul of EU subsidy rules, including a possible windfall levy to deliver President Emmanuel Macron’s pledge to “take back control” of prices. One option

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is exiting Russia by selling its business in the country to a venue that launched only a day ago. Binance on Wednesday said it intends to cease all exchange

Vanya Duke of York’s Theatre, London Andrew Scott in ‘Vanya’ © Marc Brenner Andrew Scott plays eight characters in this stunning solo version of Chekhov’s great Uncle Vanya. But there’s one he can’t play: Sonia’s mother Anna. She died nine years before the play opens — we learn that right at the outset. Yet she