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   NEWS: FT.COM - COMMENT & ANALYSIS
FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Let boredom be the mother of invention
Idleness breeds creativity if only we can ignore shallow technology distractions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

The absurdity of a mummers' Christmas
The annual folk tradition has been staged in the UK and Ireland for over two centuries

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Saudi's sway is here to stay
For business, following the whims of politicians isn't always easy, but it does create opportunities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

No, you can't tell when something was written by AI
Context matters as much as content in determining whether text is machine generated or not

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Subscription overload is exhausting Americans
The battle for Warner Bros could be the last straw for cash-strapped viewers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Why self-improvement starts with maintenance
Whether you're talking about armies, motorcycles or teeth, the same rule applies — what you care for will endure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Year in a word: Rare earths
These metals have become the plaything of the US-China trade war

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

A tiny beacon of trust: the joy of the honesty box
Tables laden with veg, eggs or honey in exchange for a few coins have become a global movement — and tell tales of resilience, community and truth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 24, 2025

Ikea muscles in on the last-minute stocking-stuffer trade
City stores in prominent locations double up as billboards to drive online sales

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

Melting chocolate prices are a festive gift for the sweet-toothed
Cocoa prices have not been this low in two years

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

What Tesco can teach fintech hotshots about cultural imperialism
Cultural hurdles can be just as hard to get over as regulatory ones

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

The year in review (part two)
Our 2025 predictions, reviewed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

The good, the bad and the ugly of Britain's labour market reforms
It's the detail of the new Employment Rights Act that will matter — and the timing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

Nuclear fusion is a brainteaser for investors as well as scientists
Valuing Trump Media & Technology Group after the merger with TAE will be a double step into the unknown

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

America's risky bet on hydrocarbons might hurt it in the AI race
US strategy could be costly in terms of higher electricity prices, increased water stress and potential food insecurity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

Venture philanthropy can transform small charities
Investment funds such as The Fore and Impetus bring financial innovation to worthy causes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 23, 2025

Year in a word: AI bubble
The high priests of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are beginning to acknowledge the excesses of Big Tech valuations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Britain's bargain takeover market
Surge in foreign acquisition values reflects quality of assets, but at discount valuations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

The year of the tariff
American trade policy is geared towards re-industrialisation — and it's working

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Social media is taking us back to the Salem witch trials
It is none of our business if strangers choose to display their private affairs at a Coldplay concert

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Middle powers face a new age of uncertainty
Rather than unleashing a new multi-polar era, US retreat has left states scrapping for advantage in an ill-defined order

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

When F Scott Fitzgerald's Christmas wish came true
The Pat Hobby stories about a washed-up writer in Hollywood were written to make money fast — they are also the final flowering of Fitzgerald's eccentric genius

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Don't forget the other hostile bid battle in US media
Local TV group EW Scripps at centre of another merger-related drama

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

The year in review (part one)
The defining market themes of 2025

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

We need a plan to leverage my success
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

What David Ellison can learn from a hostile bid battle of his father
The saga of Oracle's PeopleSoft takeover might show what is needed to win Warner Bros Discovery

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Year in a Word: Remigration
The idea that ethnic diversity is a threat has begun to seep into the mainstream

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Europe's banks turn to private equity for M&A without tears
Lenders have been snapping up businesses formerly owned by buyout firms at a record rate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 22, 2025

Happy K-shaped Christmas
Across the US, high earners are spending while middle- and lower-income households are feeling the pinch

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

Europe needs strategic purpose matched with action
A €90bn Ukraine loan should mark the beginning of a more decisive and ambitious EU

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

Betting against New York is always a losing proposition
Despite fears about what a Mamdani mayoralty might mean, big business continues to invest in the city

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

A new maritime security architecture for the UK and her neighbours
Europe's front line is the exposed waters of the North and Baltic Seas

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

A year of Trumpian attacks on the rules-based international order
Can global governance survive Donald Trump? How it started; how it's going

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

In praise of male courage
The heroes of Bondi Beach should be celebrated in an era of ‘toxic masculinity'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

Looking back on a year of AI blunders
Few industries have escaped our hapless misuse of this troubling technology

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

Wool is no longer the black sheep of agricultural commodities
Sustainability arguments make for a catchy marketing angle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 21, 2025

Year in a word: Affordability
Americans are feeling the pinch and some Democrats are reaping the electoral dividends

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

America's current account woes
The risks of a weaker dollar on the current account deficit

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Elliott's bookshop gamble is turning into a page-turner
A private equity bet on physical books and bricks-and-mortar stores looks like the happier kind of plot twist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Here comes the sun: light amid the UK gloom
It may be hard to remember in the depths of winter but this has been a miraculously bright twelve months

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Leather tabards. Pork scratchings. Flaming desserts — Jay Rayner reviews Rosi, London
The food of the 1970s could sing, and here it does so with indulgent flair

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

The case for denial
In a darkening world, burying one's head in the sand is a rational strategy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

SpyGPT will shake James Bond's world
Open-source data and machine learning tools mean the challenge is not information scarcity but information overload

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Year in a word 2025
Editors and correspondents at the Financial Times reflect on the words of the year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

What wines are worth cellaring?
Suitable candidates to squirrel away now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Pitting Nimbys against Yimbys is a bad idea
Popular political assumptions misread the public by attacking nature as the block to building more housing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Have we reached a tipping point on public debt?
An intolerable burden is being placed on future generations that will result in financial crises and political instability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

From the Grinch to the Christ Child — my top five Christmas heroes
I am not one for festive jollity, but a handful of seasonal superstars get me through

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 20, 2025

Year in a word: Tradwife
The aproned aesthetic has been amplified by the Maga movement as a nostalgic return to when men ruled the roost

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Don't believe the fake gloom about London
The UK capital is subject to more than its fair share of misinformation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

The SEC is heading into dangerous territory
From January the US financial watchdog's commissioners will all be Republicans

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

It's beginning to look a lot like holiday job season
We need young people to gain experience that makes the world of work intelligible and builds skills and confidence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Europe risks a self-fulfilling prophecy over the threat from Russia
Leaders on the continent should be wary of beating the drums of war too loudly

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Lululemon should roll out the red yoga mat for Elliott
Activist's intervention seems to be a vote for stability in the ailing athleisure company

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Europe shows its commitment to Ukraine — but not unequivocally
When it came to using frozen Russian assets as leverage, the EU blinked

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Inflation risk is still under-appreciated by investors
Powerful forces look poised to reignite growth at a time when economies are close to capacity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Management consultants' new gravy train: buying other companies
Hot on the acquisition trail, some companies are taking a leaf out of their own playbooks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Inflation: little to trust
Plus, Trump in Venezuela

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Time to find sustenance in a renewed flowering of botanical art
While flower beds slumber through the British winter, artists are at work capturing their beauty. But the genre is too often under-appreciated

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

America Inc's new boardroom trend: the chief exiting officer
CEO turnover at US public companies is running at its highest level since 2010

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Behemoth bills are causing hold-ups in the Lords
Rambling, badly drafted government proposals are leading to late nights and endless scrutiny

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

Prediction markets and the casino mentality of 2025
Financial gamification has upended traditional patterns of trust and oversight

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 19, 2025

The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

Latin America swings to the right
Crime and violence are raising the appeal of strongmen across the region

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The AI adoption race in the workplace is on
Sector companies are seeking to show that time saved on one-off tasks can translate into real-world business value

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

Trump is on to something: finance and fusion have much in common
Cash can be found anywhere, but baseless stock market zing is a rarer gift

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

BP's new broom has a lot of sweeping to do
On the face of it, this doesn't look like a knockout hire — but the oil major needs a clean-up not a new vision

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The hard politics of climate overshoot
Net zero is difficult enough — but an age of net negative emissions goals would be far tougher

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The myth of the imminent Conservative revival
Core goals for 2026 must be survival — to kill off Farage's claim that only he can offer an alternative to Labour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The rise of two wests threatens the democratic model
Washington has transformed from the system's global custodian to treating nations as pliable instruments

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

Europe's second-class citizens
Countries that looked down on the Gulf's ‘kafala' system are edging closer to creating their own

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The EU's economic security blanket is patchy and thin
Its disjointed response to electric vehicles shows it cannot co-ordinate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

Two views of AI and Big Tech
How much has changed?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

From colonising Mars to measuring with Mars Bars — addressing your wilder monetary queries
In the latest of his Christmas columns, the FT's Undercover Economist fields some of your most outlandish proposals, and concludes that there is no such thing as a stupid question

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 18, 2025

The argument Iranians have in private
Do social freedoms come via resistance to the Islamic regime or are they concessions that will ensure its survival?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Japan's $580bn hidden asset? In the back of the cupboard
The country has stored goods worth roughly the combined market cap of its three most globally known corporate names

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

South Korea's market moonshot is a model for other economies
Corporate governance reforms are spurring a sharp re-rating of local shares with the Kospi index up 69% this year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Elon Musk makes an unhelpful cameo in Warner Bros buyout
Hollywood studio wants Larry Ellison to offer an airtight personal guarantee, like the Tesla boss did with Twitter

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Jimmy Lai's conviction is ominous for Hong Kong
Verdict leaves no doubt about the consequences of standing up to Beijing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

How Costa Coffee went from hot property to tepid brew
The chain might benefit from an owner that can give it more time and attention

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Open source could pop the AI bubble — and soon
Valuations rest on the incorrect assumption that frontier model creators have built massive, durable moats

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

The AfD's love-in with Maga
Senior members of the German far-right visited Washington last week in an effort to cement relations with the GOP

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Monzo board should stand firm on its chief executive switch
Announcement of a new CEO seemed to start smoothly but now threatens to descend into a mess

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

When business and democracy don't mix
Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

The economy is fine and everyone hates it
An old puzzle re-emerges

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Tech Exchange
This series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry's leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, Fei-Fei Li, the ‘godmother of AI', talks about her latest venture to build spatial intelligence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

The worried investor's guide to 2026
While markets were buoyant this year, volatility is never far away

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

When giving to charity engage your brain, as well as your heart
How to ensure any gifting you do this Christmas does the most good

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

What happens if AI data centres slip the ‘surly bonds of earth'?
Outsourcing this infrastructure to space comes with a host of problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Why more dissent is now vital at the Fed
Internal challenges to the authority of the chair may prove to be a safeguard of the central bank's overall credibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

The hypocrisy of US complaints over X fine
Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe's silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

The hypocrisy of US complaints over X's EU fine
Howls of protest over a modest penalty from the EU contrast with Europe's silence over far bigger punishments levied on its banks by America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

How can I ensure my ex-wife brings my children home?
She plans to take them to the US to see her family at Christmas

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 17, 2025

Dissent is vital at the Fed
Internal challenges to the authority of the chair may prove to be a safeguard of the central bank's overall credibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 16, 2025

China property stocks still can't find a floor
Valuations at rock-bottom levels may tempt investors but the market shows little sign of stabilising

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 16, 2025

Macron: We urgently need to rebalance EU-China relations
Resolving serious trade imbalances will require co-operation and co-ordinated action

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 16, 2025

Fifa scores an own goal with its World Cup ticket prices
Next year's tournament in North America is turning into an elitist spectacle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 16, 2025

Morrison's pluck makes for a win despite chicken tax loss
In a sector as cut-throat as UK supermarkets, every penny of publicity counts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Dec 16, 2025

Trump's war on Europe
American foreign policy now aims to help rightwing nationalists into power across the continent

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