Not choking – just unlucky, Proteas

We know that South Africa, as a nation, is sport-crazy and that any loss is taken as a personal injury. Predictably, the couch coaches are crying that, yet again, our national cricket team, the Proteas, has choked in being beaten…

Four Takeaways From France’s Snap Election

[ad_1] A new week of frenetic campaigning will start in France on Monday, a day after the far-right National Rally party dominated the first round of legislative elections that attracted an unusually high number of voters and dealt a stinging…

Britain needs a fresh start

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Twice in the past half-century, in the swings to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in 1979 and to Tony Blair’s New Labour…