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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Can consultants reinvent themselves once again?
As AI becomes more capable, human advisers must find new ways to prove their worth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Welfare reform is possible: we did it before, we can do it again
All sides agree that the costs are unsustainable and we can't continue to write people off

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Trump has failed to listen to voters on inflation
People elect presidents to fix problems, not to diagnose their causes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

How to value anything with one simple question
Find two numbers and ask yourself: ‘Which is probably right and which is probably wrong?'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

The new unequivocal Zelenskyy
Ukraine's president is standing up to Trump, but it's unclear if this will help Kyiv or hinder it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Starlink spectrum deal piles Elon Musk's plate ever higher
Move may be part of a bigger plan but it spells even more capital expenditure at a company already spending beyond its means

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Shareholders should have a say on making AI safe
SEC decision to rescind key rule on voting could not have come at a worse time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Should I be stockpiling for an emergency?
The apocalypse may be coming, but first there's the question of where to store all the tinned tomatoes and bog roll

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

No, Sally Rooney's books are not ‘banned' from the UK
Author's decision to halt sales puts spotlight on proscription of Palestine Action and perceived shortcomings of Terrorism Act

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Hiding from the everything trade
Unhedged readers on how to hedge AI risk

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Why law firms should resist the lure of the AI spin-off
A carve-out could raise capital, but it's a crowded sector and valuations don't accord with the sector's lack of profitability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

US business leaders are waking up to the perils of plutopopulism
Companies wanted a president who would cut taxes and rules, they got one who has blown holes in free trade and global alliances

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Airlines should give up their fuel-hedging dogfight
Even for battle-hardened CEOs, this latest crisis is a chance for some helpful new thinking

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

The secret fight around financial flows
Quicker responses to trade challenges mean companies can free up capital

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 16, 2026

Why is the fintech boom failing to improve fin-lit?
What good is $1tn of investment if financial literacy levels are falling?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Risk of an AI crunch for stock markets is rising
The tremor seen this week could be a foretaste of things to come

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Europe cannot rely on trade barriers to counter China
The EU's hybrid car deal with Beijing eases tensions but only offers a brief respite

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

What happens when AI can read our minds?
Brain-computer interfaces are already being used to treat Parkinson's disease and allow paralysed patients to operate computers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

In AI-dominated markets, LatAm debt is a diversifier
A series of ostensibly market-friendly electoral victories across the region has boosted local currency bonds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Hold philanthropists accountable when their projects fail
Despite disappointing results, an African agricultural initiative funded by prominent foundations is being recapitalised

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Monte dei Paschi should try the ‘just say maybe' bid defence
Even a much-weakened MPS could try to argue that it deserves a better deal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

The housing plan for London is no plan at all
Without radical changes, the GLA's building targets are a fantasy — with dire consequences

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

How the Greens lost their party to the hard left
The drift from climate politics towards becoming a portmanteau party of the left heralds a nastier, less consensual era

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Macroeconomic policy must now do many things at once
Is it possible to contain debt and inflation without damaging the investment needed to restructure the economy?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

CPI comes in hot, AI goes cold
Plus: the EM index is just an AI bet now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

London's gold market enjoys the Trump effect
The City's dominance of physical trading in the metal is being reinforced by global instability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Inheritance tax toll is mounting on UK family companies
Changes by Rachel Reeves in 2024 risk cramping expansion and employment plans, driving firms into the hands of private equity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Investor appetite for data centre IPOs is reaching its limit
The blend of property, infrastructure and fast-changing technology might be better suited to other kinds of funding.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Is the K-shaped economy really more of an E?
America remains a very unequal place, but on many metrics inequality is not increasing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

How AI mega-rounds make life harder for VC firms
Fewer-but-bigger deals mean investors are having to put more eggs in a single basket

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Why the people matter more than the pitch for growth companies
Great ideas in exciting markets are all well and good, but it is the management teams that really make the difference

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 15, 2026

Want to guide your fortune from beyond the grave? Try a letter of wishes
Letters of wishes can guide executors, but careful drafting and open communication are essential

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Tata battle has potential to reshape India Inc
If ties between key charitable trusts and the conglomerate's holding company are loosened, will the group lose its distinctive ethos?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Healey's Budget is a moment he must not miss
Avoiding bold choices this time would just mean postponing political and economic pain

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The aesthetics of quantum computing
Data centres show that tech is not usually this clever about design

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Unshackle workers from non-compete clauses
The restrictions on labour mobility hold back Britain's growth and innovation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

This is an era of Davids, not Goliaths
Why smaller powers are thwarting bigger ones

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Europe's defence stocks send a geopolitical distress signal
Even when governments do sign big cheques, it takes a while for defence contractors to ramp up production

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Who should we leave our pensions to?
Inheritance tax rules are changing next year — but you need to balance tax efficiency with fairness

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The rollout of 24-hour* trading
*It's actually 23 hours

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The art of living dangerously
It would be nice to think that the world will become less shock-prone, but it probably won't

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The global economy and the art of living dangerously
It would be nice to think that the world will become less shock-prone, but it probably won't

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

By going private, Bumble may finally make a good match
Sharpening the AI tools at its disposal could improve outcomes and potentially enable the dating app to get people to pay

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The battle over the AI-led future of banking has begun
An initiative is needed to bring banks, regulators and companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic to the table to develop the technology

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

The Nobel Prize is not an exact science
Winners are only human. The committee could do more to highlight that

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

Nostalgia puts Harley-Davidson back in the fast lane
The motorcycle maker is reissuing classic models to lure a new generation to head out on the highway

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 14, 2026

How I used AI to become a chess grandmaster at 16
Ignore the doomsayers, this technology has transformed the game for the better and it can do the same for education

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Modi cannot silence India's disaffected youth
The BJP must address young people's political and economic frustrations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Will bank earnings growth become a thing of the past?
It would be foolish to think the Wall Street giants can't outrun the threat of AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

How not to revive Europe's auto industry
The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Why we need a proper conversation about death
Philanthropy needs to step up to meet the needs that a National Care Service never will

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

China gets spiky on currencies
Plus: your ideas, please, on investing ex-AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Informa's trade show bet has a vulnerability — geopolitics
The FTSE 100 company has grown rapidly after focusing on live events under Stephen Carter but is being affected by the Iran war

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

HR doesn't need to be the CIA
Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy's jugular
No matter how much America's allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Who's really hiring you — HR or cyber security?
Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Trump's loan to a US defence start-up adds to Apollo's war chest too
The question is why, if Wolfspeed's prospects are so enticing, other private sector capital providers weren't racing to provide funding too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Trump's loan to a US defence start-up adds to Wall Street's war chest too
The question is why, if Wolfspeed's prospects are so enticing, other private sector capital providers weren't racing to provide funding too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Landowners should look to regenerative agriculture for their future
As traditional subsidies recede, large estates are turning to diversification and more sustainable farming

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 13, 2026

Selling a home? Think documents before decor
A lick of paint can seduce a buyer, but having planning consents to hand will take the deal over the line

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Watch out luxury: mid-market fashion brands are staging a comeback
While LVMH's sales slid more than the market expected in recent months, Uniqlo's are going gangbusters

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

The diesel crisis is testing the limits of globalisation
Seemingly rational choices by individual states will weaken collective energy security and accelerate fragmentation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Trump's Russian diesel gambit is cynical and won't work
The US president risks harming Ukraine to curb prices driven up by his own war

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

It's time for the UK to reward whistleblowers financially
Incentivising insiders to come forward will transform how we tackle fraud

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Can a financier really revive LIV Golf?
BC Partners' Ted Goldthorpe is hoping to prove the doubters wrong in pulling the circuit out of bankruptcy and making global team golf viable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Why AI won't kill the creative class
Used right, the technology can unleash human creativity rather than destroy it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

A tale of two possums
In Australia the marsupials are treated with reverence, while in New Zealand they are being turned into ponchos

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Britain, Brexit and the cat-flap option
The political, strategic and economic momentum for a reversal of Brexit is growing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Burnham's own goal
Manchester's reputation is becoming the collateral damage of ‘Manchesterism'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

Is the US economy as narrow as its stock market?
No*

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

There is a smarter way to tax the rich
Increasing US corporate tax raises government revenues without harming the tax base

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 12, 2026

The huge lurking leverage of AI hyperscalers
While equity investors look to sunny futures, creditors are scrutinising liabilities like leases on data centres

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

How to pay for social care
Automatic enrolment worked for pensions — a similar scheme could pool the risk of heavy costs from illness and infirmity in later life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

Foreign policy matters — and the Democrats need one
Trump's approach to the world has left Republicans floundering as the midterms approach. Liberals should plan their own strategy now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

Democrats need a foreign policy
Trump's approach to the world has left Republicans floundering as the midterms approach. Liberals should plan their own strategy now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

Europe can fight the ‘China shock'
But it requires Brussels to prioritise creative destruction over protectionism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

The collective global duty to safeguard time
World powers need to agree on standardisation crucial for infrastructure and space travel

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

The problem with your AI therapist
Millions are turning to chatbots for help with mental health but a technology that can't go beyond words won't heal them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

Academic publishing is a study in fighting AI slop
Original thought, especially in the humanities, is more likely to remain the preserve of humans

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

Why are our children not flourishing at school?
AI is detonating the tired system of factory education that has predominated since the last century

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 11, 2026

What if AI prefers CVs written by AI?
The signs are that it does and one law firm's experience is revealing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

The US productivity-pay gap
Workers' share of output is shrinking

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

The world of one trade — AI
Investor portfolios have become alarmingly reliant on the fortunes of just one bet on the build-out of an uncertain technology

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

The narrow Tory path to power
We are now going to see a fight to the death on the right — which the Conservatives may yet lose

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Our 1990s nostalgia is far too rose-tinted
It's flattering to believe your generation could have been effortlessly cool. Spoiler alert: most of us were not

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Don't panic about the plague
While the chances of a lab accident triggering an epidemic are virtually zero, the disease remains an active threat in many parts of the world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Caribbean cruises are going cheap, and so are operators' shares
Cut-price holidays reflect capacity outpacing demand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Are you stuck in linguistic limbo?
For the jargon of a digitally minded profession, journalese is still strangely anchored in the past

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Slowing deals are another flashing red sign for equity markets
Some deals will still squeak through, but appetite for risk has been hit by rising yields and AI jitters

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

The danger of pessimism fatigue
Too many have cried wolf about too many things and the public is now perilously nonchalant

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

‘The whole operation was a bloody shambles' — Jay Rayner reviews RH London, Mayfair
Warm water, missing dishes and interminable waits: our critic found little luxury in a spectacular Mayfair dining room

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Whatever happened to big, boozy wine?
For decades, wines grew more potent as hotter summers met a taste for strong, ripe flavours. Now drinkers want freshness without sacrificing character — and winemakers are finding new ways to give it to them

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

There's nothing wrong with being a food snob
I'll eat cheap white bread, greasy-spoon sausages and microwave-baked potatoes. But caring about provenance, quality and how our food is produced shouldn't be dismissed as elitist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 10, 2026

Hannah Arendt and why friendship matters more than truth
In a polarised age, the political theorist's notion of civic fellowship is essential

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

Why OpenAI's revenue numbers really matter
Vague figures may lay the groundwork for inflated valuations when much-hyped companies finally go public

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

The remarkable resilience of the global economy
The surprising robustness of growth and trade rests on shaky foundations

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

The wisdom of prediction markets
Trades can contain valuable cues for businesspeople and investors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

Get used to multi-party politics, it's here to stay
The prime minister's promise on electoral reform could entrench the complex fights between five, even six parties

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

Trump and Hegseth's execution-type deal
The decision to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan is a sign of profound moral decay

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 09, 2026

A very German spy scandal
The latest example of the genre involves a retired 80-year-old top spook and the foreign intelligence agency's chief of staff

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