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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · Jul 29
Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA
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An ageing population is straining budgets across Europe – and raising questions of priorities. 

Enjoy today's Big Read on #FTEdit 👉 Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions? ft.trib.al/s5NzuhR

Then have your say in today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/l3CtYiu
January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Janan Ganesh | How Nigel Farage gets away with it ft.trib.al/pJ8FuDC #FTEdit
How Nigel Farage gets away with it
His two great liabilities, Brexit and Donald Trump, are unmentionable in British politics
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January 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Apple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI ft.trib.al/wzNgpEw #FTEdit
Apple sits out AI arms race to play kingmaker between Google and OpenAI
Multibillion-dollar deal to secure Gemini models reflects cautious approach to infrastructure spending
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January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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FT exclusive | Sadiq Khan to warn AI could cause ‘mass unemployment’ in London ft.trib.al/5GwiDPf #FTEdit
Sadiq Khan to warn AI could cause ‘mass unemployment’ in London
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs
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January 15, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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How should you talk to someone you disagree with? ft.trib.al/gkn8Cji #FTEdit
How should you talk to someone you disagree with?
In a polarised world, thoughtful reframing on hot-button issues could be key to reaching across divides
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January 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul ft.trib.al/Te5JLLC #FTEdit
McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul
Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm’s AI assistant and ability to adapt responses
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January 14, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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‘Welcome to hell’: Venezuela’s most notorious torture chamber ft.trib.al/jEexYda #FTEdit
‘Welcome to hell’: Venezuela’s most notorious torture chamber
Families call for release of political prisoners at the brutal El Helicoide jail
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January 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Inside the US justice department’s probe of Jay Powell ft.trib.al/M2Zen6T #FTEdit
Inside the US justice department’s probe of Jay Powell
Jeanine Pirro’s investigation into Fed chair’s testimony raises questions over independence of the country’s judicial arm
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January 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Read @edwardluce.bsky.social in today's #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/8vRfkGO
edwardluce.bsky.social Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 2d
"The world until recently believed that US-China decoupling was on the way. It turns out that most countries are now scrambling to de-risk from America." My column.
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How to de-risk from America
[FREE TO READ] There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing
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January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Governments are hoarding rice and grain as insurance against an ever more unstable world. But economists say it could be counter-productive.

Enjoy today's Big Read on #FTEdit 👉 Why the world has started stockpiling food again ft.trib.al/UvK3SD1

Then take today's #FTEdit poll 🗳️ ft.trib.al/iW8rCQM
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Tear gas. Burning cars. Rows of body bags. Growing protests in Iran have triggered a brutal crackdown by the regime. “We get killed if we go out,” says one mother. Read today's dispatch from Tehran on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/RzmuP1X
January 14, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Earth to breach 1.5C warming a decade early, scientists say ft.trib.al/I4yWufe #FTEdit
Earth to breach 1.5C warming a decade early, scientists say
EU’s Copernicus observation service sees temperatures passing Paris goal by 2030
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January 14, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Edwin Heathcote | Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre ft.trib.al/oqLvlyp #FTEdit
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us
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January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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The country at the heart of the global scam industry ft.trib.al/L2MFULx #FTEdit
The country at the heart of the global scam industry
Sanctions and threats have failed to stop sprawling criminal networks in Cambodia that defraud internet users
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January 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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How Iran’s economic pain sparked explosion of unrest ft.trib.al/DE3E6N6 #FTEdit
How Iran’s economic pain sparked explosion of unrest
Iranians have suffered years of inflation, devaluation and stuttering growth
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January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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The Big Read | How the west fell behind in the green tech race ft.trib.al/dmV6Bj1 #FTEdit
How the west fell behind in the green tech race
European companies pioneered much of the technology used in renewables, but have they left it too late to compete with China?
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January 13, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Britain’s HS2 rail project has been relegated by many to the status of sorry joke, but FT analysis showing that it is now the most expensive strip of train line in the world is really not very funny at all (at least, not if you’re a British taxpayer).

An #FTEdit 🧵 on how the costs have mounted 👇
Bar chart of global high-speed rail costs – A ranked list showing HS2 (UK) at the top as the most expensive high-speed rail project per kilometre ($537mn), followed by Tokyo–Nagoya, Lyon–Turin, and others, using PPP-adjusted 2025 dollars.
January 13, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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Gideon Rachman | Europe needs to think the unthinkable on Nato ft.trib.al/mXHRrmh #FTEdit
Europe needs to think the unthinkable on Nato
Conflict over Greenland could destroy the transatlantic alliance, requiring a new European security treaty to replace it
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January 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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The likes of OpenAI, Google and Anthropic face being outpaced by Chinese AI rivals in the race for global growth, the president of Microsoft has told the FT, as Deepseek spreads rapidly in emerging markets.

Read the full story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/TMaA4JB
Bar chart titled “DeepSeek dominates the AI market in China” showing the 10 countries with the largest DeepSeek market share (%). China leads with 89%, followed by Belarus (56%), Cuba (49%), Russia (43%), Iran (25%), Syria (23%), Turkmenistan (20%), Ethiopia (18%), Zimbabwe (17%), and Eritrea (17%). Source: AI for Good Lab – Microsoft Research.
January 13, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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The FT View | Donald Trump’s foolhardy assault on the Federal Reserve ft.trib.al/femgflm #FTEdit
Donald Trump’s foolhardy assault on the Federal Reserve
Independence of US central bank is a vital anchor for the global financial system
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January 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Jemima Kelly | Why men should really be reading more fiction ft.trib.al/ET3yki3 #FTEdit
Why men should really be reading more fiction
Novels require a kind of attention that the modern world is steadily eroding
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January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Where did all the Saturday jobs go? ft.trib.al/a40Lx92 #FTEdit
Where did all the Saturday jobs go?
Britain’s teenagers are having to compete with older applicants and face tougher employment rules
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January 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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‘I don’t want to live in an American empire’: Greenlanders bristle at US threats ft.trib.al/EOsLaa4 #FTEdit
‘I don’t want to live in an American empire’: Greenlanders bristle at US threats
Inuit fear loss of language and traditions if Donald Trump succeeds in grabbing the vast Arctic island
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January 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Leica’s next shot: inside the camera pioneer’s strategy for the iPhone age ft.trib.al/QfopIlZ #FTEdit
Leica’s next shot: inside the camera pioneer’s strategy for the iPhone age
Chief executive of Blackstone-backed German luxury photography group says too much nostalgia is ‘dangerous’
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January 12, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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This is the Southdale Center, America's first indoor mall when it opened in 1956. Seventy years on, many malls face an existential crisis as shoppers move online, while others transform to survive.

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The Southdale Center, located in a Minneapolis suburb. was the country’s first enclosed and climate-controlled mall when it opened in 1956. The photo shows a busy mid-20th-century indoor shopping centre with a high, open atrium. People in formal, vintage clothing stroll, sit, and talk across multiple levels connected by wide staircases and ramps. Large spherical pendant lights hang from the ceiling, and planters with greenery and a decorated Christmas tree suggest a festive season. In the foreground, a man in a suit holds a small child in a red coat, while shoppers and families gather throughout the space. A line chart titled “US online sales grew rapidly during the Covid-19 pandemic” showing ecommerce as a percentage of total US retail sales from 2016 to 2025. The line rises steadily from about 8% in 2016 to around 10% by 2019, then spikes sharply to over 16% in 2020 during the pandemic. It falls slightly in 2021–22 before climbing again, reaching roughly 16–17% by 2024–25. Source: US Census Bureau and Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
January 12, 2026 at 12:05 PM