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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 25, 2026

Marco Rubio still owes Europe answers about America's intentions
The US secretary of state's recent speech in Athens evoked a shared destiny but offered no vision of a common future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 25, 2026

Britain needs ‘chainsaw economics'
Shock therapy can liberate the country from a cycle of low growth, rising debt and an expanding state

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 25, 2026

What my most embarrassing job interview taught me
Job hunters should not have to disclose their pay history or guess what salary is on offer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 25, 2026

The right's obsession with ‘civil war' in Britain
Many of those stoking fears of bloody unrest don't actually live in the country

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 25, 2026

Billionaire benevolence is booming, but it comes with strings
Generating goodwill is helpful in building data centres and developing bots with minimum governmental intervention

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

Why 17 is not the magic number in industrial policy
A lack of focus threatens to hobble Japanese premier Sanae Takaichi's growth strategy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

French government and corporate bond yields are converging
Some companies' bonds now yield less than government bonds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

Amelia Earhart and the allure of an unsolved mystery
The search for the daring aviatrix is almost a century old and remains the ultimate treasure hunt

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

A little bit of luck is lifting UK Budget expectations
Healey is poised to deliver his plans just as this year's drag on global bonds appears to be turning

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

A union storm is coming for employers
The changing relationship between companies and workers will make it harder to do business

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

China's luxury brands are ready to elbow western rivals aside
Investors are questioning whether appeal of homegrown Chinese luxury is a durable shift or a shortlived trend

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

Tobacco taxes work — even when they give smugglers a windfall
Fiscal income has dwindled as smokers quit but the link between tax rates and illicit activity is not clear-cut

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

The money questions children ask AI chatbots
Forty per cent of UK youngsters in a survey had asked AI for financial advice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

The young are conformists in denial
The reassuringly bourgeois values behind a rebellious generation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

Don't let the future rob you of the present
If we always knew what tomorrow held, there would be no place for wonder, surprise and even hope

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

The curse of overexposure
Because everyone can have enough of a good thing, even Olivia Colman

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

How much should you plan for your financial future?
Life has a nasty habit of exceeding the budget

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

California wines don't age? Think again
Snap up any Napa reds from the 1970s you might be lucky enough to find and afford

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 24, 2026

‘A delicious fantasy of Britishness' — Jay Rayner reviews Cloth Cornhill
At the reborn Simpson's Tavern in the City, there's beef-dripping chips, a magnificent venison pie and the sort of rich, old-school cooking that would delight a character in a Trollope novel

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Global Insight: The ‘cockroach' protesters Modi cannot stamp out
Movement that began as an online satirical movement but has become a thorn in the side of the prime minister

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

The ledger problem
Tokenisation doesn't suspend the laws of finance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Some Budget tax reforms really are better than others
In the absence of leaks ahead of next week, we've been deluged with wrong-headed calls for cuts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Managing a new world of bots and bargain hunters
AI agents promise to empower consumers and boost competition, but must first earn users' trust

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

The biggest ever investment theme has only just begun
Companies have sorted the mundane — now they can help us live our best lives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

A half-time scorecard for Trump-world
Monetising America has pleased tycoons but not citizens

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

What the coming copper crunch means for the global economy
A looming shortage of the metal will push up costs for AI, defence tech and the green transition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

How smart does my fridge need to be?
In an age of cyber attacks and malfunctioning technology, dumb appliances are starting to look like the clever choice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Why the UK should greenlight both Jackdaw and Rosebank
The real problem, for those concerned about the climate, isn't that oil and gas might become too cheap, but that renewables remain too expensive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Selling the devolution dream
The Budget will give a first glimpse of Andy Burnham's bid to rewire the state, but the prime minister well knows the mechanics need a good story too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Winter arrives in markets
Bonds and stocks tell the same chilly story

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Is Zuckerberg being greedy? Let shareholders decide
If the billionaire founder cares what people think, he should persuade his fellow investors to back his vision

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

The living being on your bookshelf
The belief that books are more than just inanimate objects is explored in a new memoir by Brazilian publisher Luiz Schwarcz — but it's an idea that has ancient roots

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

Beware Bessent's tilt towards short-term debt
If inflation and debt rise and AI optimism falls, then the danger of reducing Treasury maturities grows

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

AI oversight needs a different model to banking
Regulatory structures for finance were cobbled together over a century — this technology needs its own scrutiny

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 23, 2026

A cure for ‘plant blindness'? Try London's Royal Parks
The latest five-year plan is wonderfully ambitious, with climate-resilient, colourful planting to stop us all in our tracks and take notice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Starlink saga shows why Europe must catch up in space
US tech is far ahead, but Brussels still needs its own satellite networks and launch capacity

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Steve Cohen takes Hertz for a defensive spin
The hedge fund boss is taking a punt on just a part of the heavily indebted car rental company

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

‘Know Your Agent' will be the new rule of the AI age
As autonomous software does more, we need to focus on how to control its behaviour and establish accountability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Barclays stands out from the crowd for the wrong reasons
By trying to do everything, the bank risks pleasing nobody

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Serbia's students should take a leaf out of Magyar's book
Ahead of elections this weekend, those attempting to topple the Vucic regime should consider reform, not revolution

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Europe's moderates must stop treating politics as a spectator sport
While centrists have retreated to myriad bubbles, extremists turn up, join up and organise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

The tentative return of the old politics
Burnham is clawing back the lost Labour vote while Badenoch appears to have seen off Reform's talk of destroying the Tories

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Europe's bracing reality on US bond yields
The region cannot just hope for a fall in borrowing costs across the Atlantic - it must tackle its own problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Europe's underrated digital trailblazing
At the frontier of public digital money, the EU is slowly developing a geopolitical monetary strategy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Hyperscalers and how to rate them
In the land of known unknowns

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Which G7 economy is the profligacy poster child?
Among the group, France and the US are heading into a wall

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

Did I make a mistake with my late father's will?
I thought his trust arrangement was unnecessary given the law change

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

AI's true effect on inflation
Relative price shifts can affect the overall price level

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

A dangerous threat to UK company rules must be scrapped
Proposal to ditch the regime on capital distributions such as dividends risks lower growth and weaker businesses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

AI and inflation: how worried should central bankers be?
Relative price shifts can affect the overall price level

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 22, 2026

The Ritz has gone boutique, and is all the better for it
Dining at the Piccadilly establishment proves that luxury is mostly the privilege of having other people kept at a distance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Is corporate India's exuberance merited?
The gap between corporate India's public optimism and household and investor anxiety has become increasingly apparent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

China's drugmakers move into the big league
Foreign pharma groups are now paying to access innovation developed locally

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Indonesia should heed MSCI's warning
A credible stock market is essential if the country is to fulfil its enormous economic promise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

What Elon Musk stands to gain from a Tesla-SpaceX merger
A merger of Elon Musk's listed companies has some logic, but other shareholders might end up with less influence than they have today

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Who's paying for the AI build-out? Probably you
Every big pool of capital, in every corner of the developed world, is funding data centres

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Do memorials belong in train stations?
The meaning of statues like the Kindertransport one risks being lost when the world is rushing past

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

The ‘adults in the room' won't save you
The hope that wise subordinates would curb the likes of Donald Trump was always a misunderstanding of politics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Iran FM: We are ready for diplomacy, but will defend ourselves
A way forward can only materialise once the US administration genuinely accepts that it has no military options

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Iran's foreign minister: The false assumptions about us are dangerous
A way forward can only materialise once the US administration genuinely accepts that it has no military options

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Burnham's North Sea ‘pragmatism' is no big shift from Starmer's
Plus, why Ed Davey believes the prime minister is about to call an early election

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Don't underestimate Netflix's power to flip the script
Focusing on making more Oscar winners would double down on territory YouTube has struggled to conquer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Are index providers overstepping the mark?
Action against Indonesia and Turkey is a venture into territory best left to local regulators and governments

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Small caps: not a great AI hedge
Plus, fewer Fed meetings

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

A chance discovery offers hope for coral reefs
Bleached coral can start to recover if it simply rests against a genetically identical healthy neighbour

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

To replace Starlink, Europe will have to reawaken its animal spirits
Even splurging on homegrown options won't, by itself, solve the problem in a reasonable length of time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Can protein craze bulk up retailer THG's withered share price?
Consumer brands company has been a controversial pick since its London float six years ago

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

A pre-Budget day guide to Britain's bad taxes
This is not the end of a list of potential reforms. It is barely even a start

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

Britain cannot build its future by returning to the 1970s
The past is always a foreign country

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 21, 2026

How much does it cost to be middle class?
I've mapped the trappings of middle-class life at three levels — and they're all getting more expensive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Britain's budget should build on its economic resilience
Burnham and Healey must look beyond industrial nostalgia to the UK's modern strengths

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Is France spinning out of control?
The country faces multiple crises and the political class seems incapable of responding

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Why globetrotting retail banks are back in fashion
The fear is that it's those who stay at home, rather than those who venture abroad, who will end up lifelong losers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Do not worry too much about European gas prices
Wholesale values have hit new highs this year but the pain should be transitory

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Putin's American friends
‘Realist' critics of Nato echo Moscow's talking points on Ukraine

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

It's time to give individual shareholders direct votes on climate change
As corporates and fund managers retreat on green commitments, we must use technology to give savers and investors a say on policies affecting the planet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Waiting for good IPO
Anthropic's shrinking window to list

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Microsoft gives data centre hopefuls a pre-IPO reality check
The US tech giant calling time on its Nscale deal exposes faultlines running through this fast-growing area of the AI sector

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Musk beat Sweden's unions — but not the Swedish model
Sweden has one of the most pro-technology labour movements anywhere in the world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Musk vs the Swedish unions — who won?
Sweden has one of the most pro-technology labour movements anywhere in the world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

The battle of the knee replacement robots
Smith & Nephew is trying to fight back against Stryker's innovation in orthopaedics with a new artificial joint

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 20, 2026

Why the UK government is living on borrowed time
The Labour Party's plan for an expanded state sits uncomfortably with a precarious fiscal backdrop

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

BYD is playing the long game in Japan
There are signs that the company is customising its offering to the Japanese market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

France's riots expose the impotence of its political class
Shocking violence highlights deepening social division, fiscal constraints and a crisis of leadership

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

India's democracy once went looking for voters. Not any more
The franchise is being recast as a privilege citizens must repeatedly prove they deserve

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Data centres need protection from drone warfare
AI infrastructure designs may now need to incorporate blast-resistant concrete, jamming gear and missile-defence systems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Indonesia's market is dysfunctional, not uninvestable
Banks are decent investments based on their growth and profitability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Is smart farming really smart business?
From eerie driverless tractors to precision spraying and sowing, AI is transforming America's agricultural life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

The self-destructive wishful thinking about European autos and trade
France and Germany have synthesised their bad ideas about cars into a terrible plan

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Zelenskyy, Europe and the end of Trump whispering
This new crisis looks different and the bloc's leaders are preparing to talk directly to Putin

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

FTSE as Hedge
Plus, midterms and AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Hollywood recasts tech tycoons as bad billionaires
This new twist may portend a backlash against wealth creation in America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 19, 2026

Which is worse for the planet, your kitchen extension or your 4x4?
The carbon footprint of the building work can be the same as driving 50,000 miles in Land Rover Defender. To avoid this, just ask the right questions?.?.?.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

Burnham always wants to look like he's listening, especially when he isn't
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

US rate rises are being amplified in global markets
The Iran war and shifts by China are tightening the supply of dollars in international markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

Trump's bid to make America cheap again has failed
Voters are increasingly linking rising energy prices to the administration's policies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

Not every billionaire is a policy failure
Indiscriminately targeting those with 10-digit fortunes is arbitrary, misguided and costly

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

Trump's losing battle with green energy
The Iran war and AI boom are strengthening the case for clean power, despite the president's efforts to curb it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

The Trump administration has entered its utter shambles era
A disastrous five-day stint for the president's new press secretary is just the latest sign of chaos in the White House

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Oct 18, 2026

Why we just can't quit the site formerly known as Twitter
By some measures Elon Musk's $44bn purchase of the platform now called X has already paid for itself

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