Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Earlier this month, one man’s story caught the imagination of millions of China’s “netizens”. Mr Yue is 44, a ...

Hermione Granger's most notable subplot from the Harry Potter books was left out of the movies and I think it was the right decision. There were a lot of smaller storylines from the pages of J.K.

Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial remains a nearly perfect film decades after it hit theaters. But there was almost a subplot included that would have drastically changed the tone for ...

As democracies around the globe wrestle over where to draw the line between free speech and unlawful lies and what—if any—rules should govern social-media platforms, we might assume that under ...