For the FT, Europe is a very far away place.
First some feedback on the app’s UI: The last update is horrible, more blank space and less information, an headline and a short sentence now occupies twice the space, and the app now requires miles of scrolling to get anywhere. And you managed to keep all the infuriating flaws, good job. Even when the edition of the newspaper is set to Europe there isn’t an EU (or at the very least Europe) tab/section in the app’s main menu. I have to go to the World tab/section, scroll (now even more) until I find the Europe sub-section, and even then only a selection of 10 or so articles is available there at any time, which now occupies twice the space while giving no extra information, Who designed this? Who thought this is a good ideia? Give me submenus that allow me to see all the articles I want regarding a specific subsection, like Europe without having to scroll through the entire world, or luxury or financial with having to scroll through all other sectors. Now regarding Europe: How many articles have been published by the FT about Brexit? How many hours of podcasts? Yet, for a newspaper that likes to think of itself as being truly international and global, its perspective in all of those articles and podcasts is always extremely English and unforgivingly insular. In all of those discussions about Europe, FT journalists and editors seem to completely forget two very important things: the first is that they too are supposed to be European, but let’s drop that false pretence, the FT journalists, like most British people, have always written in an extremely “us and them” way, “us” being the British, and “them” being Europe, so much so that I couldn’t call any of them European when they all seem to see themselves as being so separate and superior to “them”. In a FT podcast there is literal sniggering about europeans, an FT editor, a grown man sniggering because some Lord or Baroness or something like that made a joke about “telling them like it is anytime they go to Europe”, shameful. The second thing FT journalists and editors are forgetting is the European perspective in all of those discussions about Europe. Nowhere is this more apparent than in articles and podcasts about Brexit, in which the FT completely forgets that Brexit is a discussion between the UK and Europe, which becomes particularly curious considering the size of the EU when compared to the UK. You write and talk about what is best for London and the UK, you hope for a good outcome for London
