Claire Manibog’s top reads this week: Brexit mayhem, #deleteFacebook and cursing the open-plan office

Leslie Hook’s top reads this week: the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brakes on self-driving tech, the joy of missing out

Suzanne Blumsom’s top reads this week: Apple’s troubles, Spotify’s global play, lunch with Gwyneth Paltrow

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany’s top reads of 2018: Macron’s troubles, real cost of cheap clothes, what women should pretend they can’t do

Caroline Binham’s top reads this week: boy problems, Asia’s toxic air and Brexit shifts

Patricia Nilsson’s top reads this week: what’s happening with Huawei, what next for Brexit and FT women of 2018

Lilah Raptopoulos’s top reads this week: Angela Merkel’s heir, French boardroom equality, the meaning of home

Roula Khalaf’s top reads this week: Carlos Ghosn gone, Theresa May keeps calm, life in a refugee camp

Lauren Fedor’s top reads this week: scandal at Goldman Sachs, Theresa May’s long week and Michelle Obama’s memoir

Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart’s top reads this week: breaking barriers in the US midterms, Africa’s ‘diseases of affluence’, the Mafia and the food chain

Aimee Keane’s top reads this week: politics after Angela Merkel, stepfamily life, US midterms and Big Data

Elaine Moore’s top reads this week: lunch with Yellen, what’s troubling the markets and the shadow of Khashoggi

Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: the Saudis, Khashoggi and SoftBank, the Irish backstop explained and ending workplace exhaustion

Brooke Masters’ top reads this week: Pret’s contamination crisis, changing childcare, teaching bankers to code

Aliya Ram’s top reads this week: Fan Bingbing’s return, Theresa May’s moves and Danske explained

Siona Jenkins’ top reads this week: Brexit Britain’s hard lessons, Weight Watchers slims down and networking for smokers

Emma Jacobs’ top reads this week: Apple vs Kanye, MBAs out of favour and citizens of nowhere

Federica Cocco’s top reads this week: Africa’s swelling cities, life after Lehman and unequal marriage

Isabel Berwick’s top reads this week: the story of 418 Homeplace Drive, Coke’s retro coffee shop move and what middle-aged men should want

Amy Kazmin’s top reads this week: China’s prison labour problem, the weakness of womenomics and a Canadian takes on Trumpism

Patricia Nilsson’s top reads this week: London’s pollution problem, Donald Trump’s legal mess and lunch with Jean Paul Gaultier

Claire Manibog’s top reads this week: Turkey’s tumble, rise of the vloggers and how to maximise your morning

Lilah Raptopoulos’s top reads this week: Tesla and Twitter, China’s MeToo movement and a slave trader’s legacy

Kana Inagaki’s top reads this week: $1tn Apple, accountancy in crisis, what working women should pretend they can’t do

Siona Jenkins’ top reads this week: smartphone addiction, millennials fight back and swishy hair