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FirstFT: Alphabet beats earnings forecast and announces first-ever dividend
26 April 2024 @ 4:30 am
Also in today’s newsletter, Macron warns of Europe’s ‘mortal’ threat and how UK’s ‘levelling up’ failed
Fadi Kattan’s paean to the food of Bethlehem
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
The chef pays homage to his Palestinian heritage in his first book of recipes
Have you got five minutes to talk about investing?
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
It is high time we normalised conversations about money
Reform UK’s unusual structure with Nigel Farage in the middle
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
Farage insists he is not a politician — but within the rightwing populist party, he is kingmaker
How economists could make themselves more useful
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
There is a gap between the research supplied by academia and what policymakers actually want
South Africa could be a thorn in BHP’s side as it makes £31bn Anglo American bid
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
The world’s biggest miner faces fraught politics and complicated history weeks before key general elections
Inside the UK’s failing plans to ‘level up’ left-behind towns
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
The promise of billions in regeneration funding helped Boris Johnson win power in 2019. But critics say little has changed on the ground
What became of Rahile Dawut?
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
The famed Uyghur academic pursued her life’s work under an increasingly authoritarian Chinese state. Then she vanished
Military briefing: Russia’s narrowing advantage in Ukraine
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
Moscow’s forces are unlikely to muster a massive offensive this year
Ban on non-compete agreements sends shockwave across Wall Street
26 April 2024 @ 4:00 am
Financial companies scramble to rework contracts and tie down personnel after US Federal Trade Commission rule