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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Why Iran fears a deal today means more war tomorrow
Tehran interprets the US's seemingly generous concessions as too good to be true

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

A bumpy road to electric vehicle success
Ferrari Luce's launch caused more heat than light but has lessons for incumbents

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Am I lower-value human capital?
Thanks to one CEO's ‘inartful' words, it's a question we all need to consider

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Charles Goodhart: ‘Demography is going to make life worse and worse and worse'
The leading economist warns that fiscal pressures will constrain independent monetary policy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Markus Braun's six-year detention violates his human rights
The former Wirecard CEO has been detained since 2020 without a verdict — a length almost without precedent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Don't bet on Trump reining in the prediction markets
The sector is expanding at breakneck speed in the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Urgent clarity on policy needed on the energy transition
The impact of Middle East war is a reminder why certainty is crucial to spur a shift from fossil fuels

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
New evidence suggests the rise of working from home has made entry-level hires a less attractive proposition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

There's a simple way for investors to dodge UK political storms
Predictably, British politicians think they can defy financial markets — one solution is to buy global

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 29, 2026

Boston Museum of Fine Arts succeeds in reframing nature
A new show sees gardens as art and artists as gardeners — and sows big ideas to inspire us all

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

AkzoNobel should avoid painting itself into a corner
Dutch paint maker's original tie-up with Axalta doesn't look especially compelling

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Caesars' billionaire buyer hopes luck and leverage go hand in hand
The transaction comes at a time when Caesars and Las Vegas have been struggling

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Britain's expanding ‘lost generation'
Milburn report on youth joblessness should be a priority for whoever leads Labour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

And just like that, the software apocalypse was over
Snowflake's stock pop demonstrates what companies must do to escape the sector downturn

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

SpaceX IPO boldly steps into the unknown of AI economics
We still need to learn many things about the basic business model of frontier models

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

BP should never have made Manifold chair
The UK energy company's board took an unwise gamble on a dominant executive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

The Pope disrupts Silicon Valley
Unlike the US president, the pontiff is choosing to grapple with the serious challenges of AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Who decides which jobs AI will take?
Different models are producing very different assessments of exposure levels

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Trump is pushing Canada and Mexico towards China
The renegotiation of the USMCA deal is peripheral to the green tech revolution in world trade

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Farage is facing his own menace on the right
The rise of Restore Britain may force Reform's leader to switch strategies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Arsenal, PSG and the rise of the capital club
The Champions League finalists show how football's old power centres have shifted

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

A tale of two EU-US comparisons
There is no well-defined single answer to whether the US has been outgrowing Europe

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Semiconductors: supercycle or superbubble?
Plus, semis' fragile supply chain

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

How to close AI's accountability loophole
Governance of new technologies must be determined by elected officials rather than fastest moving companies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

SpaceX and the Zuckerberg discount
A founder-entrenching shareholder structure can do a great deal of harm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Superdrug IPO would put lipstick on a drab UK retail sector
Superdrug grew almost twice as fast as Boots over past four years

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

Why Europe must embrace tariffs
Sorry folks, the rules aren't coming to save you

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

America's hegemonic glory is under threat
Along with excessive ‘guns and butter' spending, that risk means long-term Treasuries are expensive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

What are my rights when buying a house with my unmarried partner?
We will both pay towards the mortgage, but it won't be a 50/50 split

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

My night at London's most expensive sushi restaurant
‘Each course at Sushi Kanesaka is delivered for evaluation, where the desired response is ‘flawless' rather than ‘tasty''

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 28, 2026

No, now is not the time for UK rent controls
Three think-tanks are promoting curbs to rental growth — but that horse has already bolted

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

‘China-maxxing' helps spur an inbound tourism boom
Beijing has found an economic win by drawing more international visitors to the country

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Uber bid for Delivery Hero would be an odd route to superapp status
Food delivery group's taxed operating profit this year is only about 2.4 per cent of its enterprise value

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

For ailing Lululemon, going private might not be a stretch
The company has essentially no net debt and still generated $1bn in free cash flow last year

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Preventing a ‘Chernobyl moment' in AI
A White House order on testing frontier models would be a significant first step

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Want to predict central banker behaviour? Look to their birth date
Formative experiences shape our views on future inflation as much as the data

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

My five lessons from judging this year's International Booker Prize
Reading 128 books in eight months was a privilege — and a lasting education in making time, embracing difference and building literary muscle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Securitisation could help plug Europe's funding gap
Deeper capital markets are essential to the continent's growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

How Brexit made Britain a European country
With its political chaos and high-spending state, the UK is more continental than it was a decade ago

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Japan fails to grapple with past in Showa spectacle
The celebrations were enthusiastic but the country seems to have a hard time calibrating its relationship with what went before

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Labour needs a serious intellectual revival
Party's commitment to ambitious pledges before election narrowed its room for manoeuvre

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Blair's diagnosis of Labour is correct
Party's commitment to ambitious pledges before election narrowed its room for manoeuvre

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Labour's retreat from intellectual debate traps it in comfort zone
Party's commitment to ambitious pledges before election narrowed its room for manoeuvre

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

AI's mixed economic signals
Plus, the euro convergence trade

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

How did Jay Powell do at the Fed?
The outgoing chair has made some mistakes, but his decision to stand up to Trump was heroic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Halifax and TSB have outlived their brand-name usefulness
Bank consolidation in Britain now makes sense in targeting customers for multiple products

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

The legacy of Jay Powell at the Fed
The outgoing chair has made some mistakes, but his decision to stand up to Trump was heroic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

The surprising power of simple predictions
Experts can be sidetracked by elaborate ideas, overlooking the direct approach

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

The pizza oven start-up that came through the fire
Co-founders of Scotland's Ooni faced a post-pandemic crisis after invention went global

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

How some blockchains enable front-running
Regulators need to tackle the issue and address the cost to investors of excessive transparency

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

For failing water utilities, nationalisation is not a dirty word
It is easier to fund maintenance and infrastructure upgrades when freed from the temptation to pay big dividends

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 27, 2026

Can GLP-1 drugs save the mall?
The advent of diet-driven shopping comes at a crucial time for many retailers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

US and Iran: the art of the possible
Stopgap agreement leaves key issues to be decided in later talks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

BP is deeply dysfunctional, but it could be worse
Investors should be concerned by Manifold's ousting, but better to fire too many executives than too few

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

The steroid Olympics fell short of its own finishing line
Doping alone will not guarantee triumph in sport

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

Today's windfall is a warning for state oil companies
Continuing to invest as if yesterday's assumptions will govern tomorrow's world means they won't be around in 40 years

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

Putin and Trump don't have the cards
The wars Russia and America have waged in Ukraine and Iran are case studies in geopolitical self-harm

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

Stocks' unshakeable optimism
The bright side has been the only place to be

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

SpaceX to drive a cybertruck through corporate governance norms
Provisions in the IPO prospectus will give Elon Musk more freedom — and potentially less accountability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

AI stories aren't inevitably ‘not art'
Exercising our own judgment when it comes to quality is something we should not outsource to machines

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

Three ways a new Labour leader could change the politics of growth
The UK needs to confront the policies that have made us poorer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

The UK's best-performing bank is probably not the one you think
Shares in London-listed but Georgia-based Lion Finance have risen 800% since 2021

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

There are more important things to consider when moving countries than tax
Relocating to a low-tax jurisdiction often involves unforeseen legal, emotional and social costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 26, 2026

The predatory advance of surveillance pricing
Extracting the maximum possible surplus by using personalised data should not be legal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

The energy shock is not over yet
Even with a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, supplies will take time to normalise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

The 19th-century guide to running an effective meeting
A US officer and engineer devised the process that is still in use today

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Counting the cost of New York's sky-high food bills
Spiralling prices could lead to more public programmes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Iran is beating Trump at the art of the deal
The war could end with Tehran more confident, more hardline and with new resources to rebuild its nuclear programme

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Prize draw businesses have better luck than the average punter
Lack of regulation has helped draw operators to thrive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

The infantilism of an ‘ungovernable' Britain
Political stability is needed if the country is ever to solve its problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Investors can no longer rely on a ‘policy put'
The capacity of policymakers to respond to shocks is down across the board

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

It's not just SpaceX: Big Tech is dominating bond markets too
US tech giants are tapping markets as they race to build AI data centres

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Tech giants need oversight to protect national security
Companies such as Anthropic and SpaceX need a presidentially-nominated, Senate-confirmed director on their boards

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 25, 2026

Why do architects hate washing lines so much?
Visible laundry is often shunned as unsightly clutter — and increasingly banned. Hanging it out has become a political act

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

Just stop moaning and pay your taxes
Fetishising tax avoidance in the US must end if the republic is to survive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

Robotaxis need to be tested in real traffic
To achieve safe, cost-effective autonomy we need to see how other road users react to the vehicles

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

Why IPO mania could signal top of the market
A potential deluge of AI-related equity supply removes a source of upthrust for prices

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

How the Premier League became a UK economic asset
Top-tier English football is a success story and important cultural export

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

How AI is forcing McKinsey and its peers to rethink pricing
Clients are questioning the value of advice while getting more used to fees based on successful task completion

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 24, 2026

If you're in a spiral, you're doing it right
What if, despite all your mistakes, you were actually getting somewhere but in a slightly more roundabout way?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Please stop talking about Gen Z in the office
Mindless generational labels don't help at a time when the workplace is one of the few places where young and old mix

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Swatch and Audemars Piguet's collab provides a much-needed pop
The launch may not have gone quite according to plan, but such tie-ups are a good way to inject some buzz into the market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Bond slump stirs vigilante fears
A sense is setting in among investment professionals that we have a serious problem here

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

US crime and mortality is declining fast — what can the rest of us learn?
America is making progress in driving down violent deaths and those from some dangerous diseases

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Get ready to take sides in Big Tech's giant IPO bake-off
With SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic targeting the same market, investors must decide what qualities they prize most

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Arsenal's hold on the streets and the elites
How the team achieved such cultural reach in an unsuccessful era

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Air travel sucks — now more than ever
When it comes to getting on a plane, you cannot lower your expectations enough

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

What is it that we really hunger for?
Answering this question can help us make important changes to our lives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

The new Luddite movement
If governments don't slow AI down, voters — like their predecessors — might take matters into their own hands

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

Time to ‘do the splits' on your mortgage?
Overstretched borrowers are finding ways to alleviate the pain of higher interest rates

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

‘I really should return for the full, big-ticket experience' — Jay Rayner reviews The Cocochine, London
Larry Jayasekara's accomplished cooking and prix fixe lunch offer Mayfair diners excellent return on investment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 23, 2026

New Zealand makes its case for Pinot Noir
Long associated with Sauvignon Blanc, NZ is producing Burgundian-style reds well worth exploring

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

The risks to the legacy of Barney Frank
A key feature of the annual stress test for US banks is being undermined

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

The boutique bank that eschews blockbuster bragging rights
Lincoln International may not be a household name but it occupies a niche in the market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

To infinity and beyond, with the SpaceX IPO
Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI's potential — with caveats

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

America's ‘simultaneity' nightmare
Trump's pre-emptive attacks are a traumatic break with the ideals of a globalised world but the playbook is not new

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

If you think you understand bonds, you don't
They're too complex for me too — but here are five common traps to avoid

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

What is Labour's ‘soft left' anyway?
The UK governing party's hard-to-define faction is newly powerful

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

Why does everyone expect a tip?
If people are being more brazen about asking, it's time to respond in kind

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
May 22, 2026

Carson Block: ‘Maybe the dumb money is the smart money'
The short seller warns of an AI-created financial crisis

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