I didn’t expect it to be cheap, but still, my laundry bill on a recent hotel stay in Singapore came as a sticker shock. I had to pony up more than $80 for a few T-shirts, some socks and some boxers — ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When in 1962 my father took his first long-haul flight, from Paris to New York and on to Mexico City, he wore ...