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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

The Mandelson appointment shows Starmer's weakness
A colourful ambassador may have been a good fit for Trump but it was a tactical mis-step

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

A world without rules
America's Trump-led retreat from global leadership is tempting others to push their luck

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Armani's flair suits fashion better than finance
The late designer's will leaves particularly detailed directives that will hem in his heirs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

The strains on the private equity model are showing
Firms are still struggling to deal with a lack of exits from their investments

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Inspiration for city roof gardens that reach new heights
A marvellously restored site atop a former department store in London's Kensington raises the bar for sky-high planting

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Labour's trade union backers are out of control
Demands for money and perks have grown along with payouts even as ministers boost their power

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Winklevoss twins' roaring crypto IPO stores up double trouble
It's always problematic investing in a company whose valuation hinges on strong personalities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Israel's attack on Qatar has shaken the Gulf
Netanyahu's preference for endless war over diplomacy is making Saudis and Emiratis reconsider their alliances

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Is it time to think of downsizing?
Each to their own, but I'm not ready to buy into the myth just yet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Mistiming markets may ravage your retirement
Retirees must be patient and try to invest when markets are weak

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Inflation: boiling the frogs
Plus what Tricolor means

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

The jury is still out on S&P's rejection of Strategy
Beyond its small software division, the company's entire model relies on constantly selling new shares

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Why heat pumps are unfairly being left in the cold
The net present value of installing and running a heat pump, in the UK at least, is painfully negative

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

Interest rates are a sideshow in the battle over the Fed's future
Trump and his economic advisers want to narrow the central bank's mission dramatically

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 12, 2025

The battle for the Fed is about much more than interest rates
Trump and his economic advisers want to narrow the central bank's mission dramatically

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

The alarming rise of American political violence
Charlie Kirk's murder is a moment for all sides to seek to lower the temperature

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Should AI receive a writer's credit?
LLMs continue the tradition of art's preoccupation with authorship and authenticity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Technology gets under the beauty industry's skin
Upcoming IPO will test investor interest in the latest ‘elixir' of youth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Car lender's collapse hints at what's under the hood in private credit
So-called asset-based lending is the linchpin of a revolution sweeping Wall Street

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Car lender's failure hints at what's under the hood in private credit
So-called asset-based lending is the linchpin of a revolution sweeping Wall Street

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Charlie Kirk and America's inability to escape political violence
The killings of an activist, politician and CEO in the past year show the resurgence of violent means across the spectrum

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Exit Mandelson — but not Number 10's problems
Starmer's backing of his ambassador was ill-advised but his speedy reversal was equally misjudged

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Exit Mandelson — leaving questions about Downing Street's judgment
Starmer's backing of his ambassador was ill-advised but his speedy reversal was equally misjudged

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

De Beers and Botswana were made for each other
The diamond company should patch up its close relationship with the African country

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Weight loss jabs won't make Britain healthy again
The UK government should bet on the dietary tortoise as well as the hare in the race against obesity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Starmer is still captive to Labour's contradictions
His challenges spring from unresolved tensions within his party and leadership

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

France tries again
Paris political class goes round in circles while public finances fall behind those of other countries

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book
Trump's populist rhetoric has echoes of communism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Xi's new world order won't run the global economy just yet
China is too unreliable a source of demand to replace the US in the trading system

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Misplaced trust in tariff revenues
And the annual jobs revision

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

Why the bond ‘rout' might not be what it seems
Global market trend is more a technical move specific to 30-year issues

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

The blurred line between free speech and medical misinformation
Transparency is key if public fears about vaccines are to be allayed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 11, 2025

The remorseless rule of my fitness tracker
A cheap fitness watch has changed my life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Japan confronts the increased price of US friendship
The Japanese government cannot spin its one-sided $550bn investment commitment to Trump's America as a win

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Oracle's AI surge takes Larry Ellison back to the future
The group's shares jumped nearly 40% lifting its valuation close to $1tn

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

How Labour can rebuild trust with business
Reining back the burdensome employment rights bill would be a good start

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Trump's Department of War rebrand won't make America stronger
The bellicose name change is alienating the highly skilled strategists and scientists the Pentagon needs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Mistral is stirring up a storm in European tech
ASML deal connects two impressive tech companies but the capital available is a fraction of that in the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

The crystallographer who solved a molecular mystery
A lecture by the pioneering scientist Kathleen Lonsdale has been chosen to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution's discourses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Our answers to climate change are damaging nature
As the extinction of plants and animals accelerates, our dependence on the natural world is deepening

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Farage's self-defeating embrace of Trump
There is nothing to gain for the Reform UK leader, so why does he do it?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

US IPO hopefuls: once more, with feeling
Klarna and StubHub will test the market's appetite for stocks exposed to the broader economy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

More on Fed independence
And putting numbers on outmigration

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Murdochs find peace — their challenge now is to keep it
Investors are tolerant of founder-controlled companies, but challenges arise when the entrepreneurs reach old age

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Indonesia counts the cost of idiosyncratic leadership
Prabowo Subianto's response to national unrest will be to ditch the austerity and keep the populism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

How worried should we be about the crypto crush?
The line between market resilience and irrational exuberance is frustratingly hard to discern

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Business hopes over Europe-US trade suffer digital disruption
Tensions over tech regulation add to geopolitical upheaval, dashing hopes of more certainty

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

The Big Tech problem for European business
Tensions over regulation add to geopolitical upheaval, dashing hopes of more certainty

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 10, 2025

Should I sell my home to pay for care fees?
I can't afford to pay for costs out of my personal income but I don't want to sell my property

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

China's car wars take their toll on BYD
Beijing has called time on a bruising prices battle the EV maker was arguably leading

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

America's draconian immigration raids
Hyundai case will make foreign workers and companies increasingly wary of setting up in the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Should the public sector build its own AI?
With a few powerful companies now controlling the tech, some countries are trying to take back control

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Starmer must not let his standards push be derailed
The strength of any government ethics system depends less on rules than their implementation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Anglo's $50bn Teck deal creates surprise winner: Canada
The industrial footprint of the combined entity makes sense

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

America's left cannot exploit Trump's failures
The president's genius is to keep pushing the Democrats into a reactive defence of the status quo

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

How to be cheerful about markets
And South Korea revisited

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Six reasons to be cheerful about the stock market
And South Korea revisited

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Can Starmer dig his way out of yet another hole?
This reshuffle can be read in various ways — not all of them positive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Does valuation matter any more in the age of AI?
Durability of corporate growth and profit margins might outweigh metrics showing the cheapness of a stock

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

Taylor Swift hands diamonds a moment to shine
While the natural variety may never regain its gleam, an appearance on the New Queen of Pop's ring finger could help

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 09, 2025

To prevent war, Britain must prepare for it
Private sector leaders need to work with the MoD to make our nation less vulnerable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

India's banks want to break into the M&A game
Lenders seek the lifting of a ban on providing loans to domestic companies to buy equity in other businesses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Shopify makes a selling point out of not being Amazon
For all the Canadian challenger's success, its valuation makes it a hard sell to investors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

SpaceX finds a peculiar route into investors' orbit
EchoStar has gone from the brink of bankruptcy, to a way of betting indirectly on the world's biggest ‘unicorn'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Memo to the CEO: office romance is also the board's business
Senior executives should disclose workplace relationships

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Competition law won't break up Big Tech
US legal doctrine shies away from structural remedies but the behavioural ones aren't working

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

The ‘lanyard class' of Brussels
It's a sign of the times that something once used to keep knives secure now carries an official name card

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Beijing deals with a gathering of strongmen
A military parade to honour China's second world war victory over Japan made a spectacle of both nationalism and security

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

India's north-south divide is fraying the political compact
Demographic shifts mean the next census could trigger a long-postponed redrawing of constituencies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Ukraine and the coalition of the unwilling
Europe's Trump-whisperers might get the US to tighten Russia sanctions and increase aid to Kyiv, but they still need a plan B

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Reeves' horseracing tax faces tough odds
Increased tax take from racing would be modest, and the disruption to an industry potentially sizeable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

The US job market is getting (slowly) worse
Plus, a bubble in gold?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Why the Fed should not cut rates now
Amid loose financial conditions and a bubbly market, it's exactly the wrong time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

Protecting Big Tech, not free speech
Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 08, 2025

I'm glad my summer of renting through Instagram is over
Gen Z is turning to the social media site for short-term lets — but the briefer the fling, the better

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

Trust in leadership begins with nurturing strength of character
The power of AI heightens the importance of business schools teaching virtues as well as vision and skills

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

There's an unexpected climate upside to Trump's tariff regime
Rerouting of supply chains can lead to significant reductions in emissions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

The EU should leave its culture of consensus behind
Getting comfortable with division at home can strengthen Europe's hand abroad

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

Is the US already in a recession?
For vast segments of the American economy it certainly feels that way

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

The bond vigilantes will keep on circling
Investors are losing faith in the ability of western governments to rein in spending

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lagoland
Paving over the Rose Garden and gaudily embellishing the Oval Office make the US president look desperate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

Lloyds should beware perils of rank-and-yank performance culture
Excessive competition between employees can go awry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

Lloyds should beware the perils of rank-and-yank performance culture
Excessive competition between employees can go awry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 07, 2025

HR is not for wimps
The people we love to hate are really getting it in the neck these days

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

The bond doom-mongers have got at least one thing right
Pressure on government borrowing costs is building

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

The rise and rise of Reform
The Conservatives long sought to avoid a split on the right by trying to contain Farage. All to no avail

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

ID cards are an idea whose time has finally come
The case for introducing digital authentication has become irresistible

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Food for thought on my fat jab experience
As someone who has lost nearly 25 kilos on Mounjaro, I think the higher cost is worth it. But is it fair?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Polycrisis — is this the sequel?
It is not clear this term best describes the unusual moment we're living through

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

The audacity of mope
Why pessimism persists in an improving world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Art can change how we understand the world
I've come across new works in the past few months that have humoured me, moved me and inspired me to reflect on society at large

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Vogue, the court of Condé Nast and the future of the glossy magazine
It's hard to imagine how any kind of succession will work while so much control remains in one hand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Why can't I quit Pret A Manger?
It almost never fails to disappoint — but maybe it's so bad it's good

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

Sins against food — Jay Rayner reviews Mr Porter, Mayfair
The restaurant describes itself as a ‘merciless lover'. I wish I'd had a safe word

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 06, 2025

How to bring a family domaine to life
Peter Allan Sichel was a great man of wine. His grandson is making wine from his Corbières vines that finally lives up to the legacy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 05, 2025

Elon Musk's $1tn bonus is literally monopoly money
Who wants to be a trillionaire?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 05, 2025

The Starmer government's moment of jeopardy
Deputy PM's exit deepens the troubles for the struggling UK administration

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 05, 2025

Bitcoin ATMs reprise a painful history in finance
The machines located in Latino, Black and low-income neighbourhoods offer a promise of inclusion but involve high costs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 05, 2025

Don't make federal architecture beautiful again
A nation once defined by experimentation risks turning its buildings — and culture — into a nostalgic echo

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Sep 05, 2025

Constable country is as precious as his paintings
The Suffolk ponds, mills and hay wains depicted in his work have long disappeared, but in Salisbury many of his viewpoints are intact — though a threat looms

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