The Best of FF Life 2025
11 stories that asked us to slow down, look closer, and feel more deeply
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11 stories that asked us to slow down, look closer, and feel more deeply
Ten of our best work through the year—on business, leadership, and geopolitical trends
How Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s capitulation, China’s counter-moves and India’s narrowing room for manoeuvre reshaped the global order.
How an airline’s crisis became an industry’s test. The concluding part of a two part special series
Ten essential reads on money, leadership, and navigating a changing world
Ambassador Shyam Saran on a post-American order, a slowing China, and how India must balance room for manoeuvre with hard-headed realism on Russia, the US and China.
How small everyday choices shape cultures, organisations, and the societies we become
Europe entered 2025 already strained by war, fractured politics, and economic anxiety. As Philippe Le Corre explains, this was the year when three pressures collided—an unending war in Ukraine, a drastically altered transatlantic dynamic under Trump 2.0, and a more openly competitive China
When innovation icons turn into liability machines, it’s not chemistry that fails—it’s governance, incentives, and courage
The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces