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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

What central bankers must tackle at Jackson Hole
Monetary policymakers are on divergent paths, but face common threats

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Hizbollah is not the IRA
There is no peace deal on the table and those who expected the militant group to capitulate were deluded

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Living in remote areas shouldn't be a death sentence
Mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

TV mergers find friendlier audience in Trump's America
Updating outdated rules for a new landscape is important

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

The mess, the flaws and the rocky love life of the great James Baldwin
A biography of the American writer and activist avoids casting him as saintly — and shows that the best portraits of artists are often the least hagiographic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Beware America's AI colonialism
It is easy to see how tech can become an even greater bargaining chip in US foreign policy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

We must clear a path for young people outside full-time education
As GCSE results land, we should realise that training alongside decent work is a better next step for some 16-year-olds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Trump's ambiguity is the worst of all worlds
He supports Europe enough to make it complacent but not enough to make it safe

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Warding off the evil eye in rural Italy
Belief that envy can bring about an inadvertent curse has endured for thousands of years across the Mediterranean

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

The signal from semiconductors
And from housing starts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Why UK property taxes should be overhauled
Swapping outdated levies for an annual proportional property tax looks sensible

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Can I challenge my solicitor's fees?
Legal costs have doubled what was originally agreed for help with a dispute

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Bank rally puts Shawbrook's IPO ambitions in reach
Those debating the health of London's capital markets seize on even the smallest listing to validate their thesis — good or bad

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Europe's rich are watching Norway's election debate on wealth taxes
Changes to taxation are at the heart of the centre-right's attempts to retake power in Norway

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Europe's rich watch Norway's election debate on wealth taxes
Changes to taxation are at the heart of the centre-right's attempts to retake power

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

How the Fed should deal with US stagflation risks
Caution should continue to be the watchword in Jackson Hole until the impact of Trump's policies are better understood

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 20, 2025

Retail investors should stay away from private funds
Individuals should be wary of the Trump administration's plans to broaden the access to the asset class

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Uncle Sam taking a stake in Intel is sane in an absurd world
For a president who likes to make deals, investing in the chip company makes sense

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Putin is back in the driver's seat on Ukraine
Moscow is seeking victory, not compromise, through diplomacy — and Trump is playing along

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Good COP, worse COP
A clamour to rethink global climate policy is exactly what we need

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

The UK immigration debate has become a hall of mirrors
Keir Starmer's task is to deal with facts, not illusions, and restore public trust

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Ukraine talks expose Trump's dreadful attention to detail
Zelenskyy and allies contain White House's tilt towards Moscow for now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Universities should bring back crafts
Skills-based knowledge need not be considered the opposite of an intellectual life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

In the age of AI, we should still teach students to make things
Skills-based knowledge need not be considered the opposite of an intellectual life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Retail sales or payrolls: which is right about the US economy?
Plus volatility suppression, and data centre depreciation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

Opendoor's next chief has a fixer-upper on their hands
CEO exits US house-flipping company that has been trying to reinvent itself

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

No, Trump is not ushering in a new global trading order
The US is simply denying itself the benefits of the system that already exists

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 19, 2025

The glamorous but tough industry of luxury hotel uniforms
UK design studios that produce bespoke clothing for grand hotels face complex demands

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Trump's Ukraine peace juggernaut careers onwards
Lack of clarity over US security guarantees shows primacy of form over substance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Time to stop indulging Serbia's authoritarian president
Europe must raise pressure on Aleksandar Vucic to avoid a deeper democratic retreat

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Soho House buyout is the end of the party for its members
It looks like the finance crowd has managed to elbow its way into the members-club operator's lounges after all

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

As Europe faces down Russia, Poland is becoming the weakest link
Donald Tusk will struggle to deliver on his campaign promises — setting the stage for even greater Euroscepticism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Trump's supporters keep the faith six months on
Among pulled-pork trucks and Maga merchandise stalls, the mood is jubilant at the Illinois State Fair

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

The merger that is setting a benchmark for AI
Whether the acquisition of Core Scientific by CoreWeave goes ahead will provide a signal on investor confidence in the technology

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Hong Kong's busy bankers give its office market a lift
The mood has started to turn in the city's financial markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Merit-based hiring can make America's civil service great again
The doctrine of ‘disparate impact' has hobbled the government's ability to employ the best people for the job

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

The boss is back
As AI bites and job cuts surge, employees are losing ground — for now

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

How to narrow our knowledge gap on China
A school curriculum fit for modern purpose must encourage the study of Chinese civilisation rather than Mandarin

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Tech utterly dominates markets. Should we worry?
Concerns about concentration and valuation should be kept separate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

India's oil lobby is funding Putin's war machine — that has to stop
Its dependence on Russian crude undermines the effort to isolate Moscow

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

Billion-dollar ‘acqui-hires' are bad for competition
From Google to Microsoft to Meta, some of the biggest tech deals of the past few years have been staff moves

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 18, 2025

What can really cure deflation in China?
Cutting excess capacity is not enough — Beijing must rebalance towards consumption

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

Angel investing is not a retirement hobby for bankers
Former financiers might assume a knack for picking winners, but investing alone requires a different set of capabilities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

Being an angel is tougher than it looks
Former financiers might assume a knack for picking winners, but investing alone requires a different set of capabilities

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

Zelenskyy in the lion's den
European leaders need to get Trump off the dangerous path laid out for him by Putin

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

Don't ask what nature can do for you?.?.?.
Measuring and ranking countries' efforts to protect animal and plant life will incentivise us to achieve a better future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

An incompetent way to pursue peace in Ukraine
Donald Trump's alignment with Vladimir Putin in Alaska made him look a dupe

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

How the west got hooked on economic support
Crisis firefighting has given way to a dependence on government and central banks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

China's entrepreneurial spirit is under immense strain
The private sector needs enforceable protections, predictable regulation, and personal bankruptcy laws

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

The race between commuters and tourists is unwinnable
But the contest always feel worse in summer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 17, 2025

How AI might save more energy than it soaks up
As ‘smart' appliances and sensors proliferate, the technology should help to reduce waste

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Russia, Ukraine and Europe are all trying to manipulate Trump
Kyiv and its western allies will attempt to turn the near disaster of Anchorage into a success

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Stop talking about AI
A discourse on the discourse

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Investors grapple with Trump's corporate America
It is no longer left to the invisible hand of capitalism to figure out who are the winners

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Grandparents are the reserve army of society
Those undertaking the formidable work of second parenthood often go unrecognised

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Smart glasses look better this time round
Wearers can now look stylish rather than plain geeky

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Poetry and the visual word
Like paintings, poems can help us to express parts of our lives that are otherwise out of reach

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Why do we get beauty so wrong?
It is endlessly subjective, unexpected, malleable — yet we pretend that it follows a simple formula

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

Where did all the British hops go?
There's a fight on to rejuvenate a once thriving beer industry

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 16, 2025

‘I worry about them' — Jay Rayner reviews Mareida, Fitzrovia
A new Chilean restaurant in London right now should be set for success, and yet.?.?.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Lost in translation
Even in the language app era there are benefits to learning a foreign tongue

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Why wrangling risk at banks is so hard
It is still a struggle for management and regulators to get a clear view of what is really happening inside lenders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

UFC fans, including one in the White House, push its ascent
The once niche sport has reached the big time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

The matcha shortage will keep this green gold rush in check
A poor harvest and fewer tea fields mean production cannot keep up with social media-driven demand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Lessons in spinach
America's Seabrook family built a frozen vegetable empire from its pioneering spinach farms. For gardeners — as for business leaders — its story provides both inspiration and caution

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Europe now needs to step off the sidelines in Ukraine
If EU leaders genuinely believe Kyiv's independence matters, they must deploy combat troops to guarantee any ceasefire

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Europe now needs to step off the sidelines on Ukraine
If EU leaders genuinely believe Kyiv's independence matters, they must deploy combat troops to guarantee any ceasefire

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Miranda Green: Why am I still scared of tech?
I have a fear of technology verging on the Luddite, and yet I hate feeling left out

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Worried about IHT? Don't miss the trust deadline
Farm and business owners should take heed of the 10th Duke of Devonshire's unexpected demise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Why am I still scared of tech?
I have a fear of technology verging on the Luddite, and yet I hate feeling left out

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Defensive stocks' offensive performance
And Chinese deflation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

How to invest in a stock market bubble
The three lessons I learned as a professional money manager

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Reports of the death of Canary Wharf were exaggerated
Valuations of offices are improving and leasing volumes are on track to top 2024

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Opponents of Trump's tariffs should be wary of relying on the courts
Judicial limits on the executive today will bind the hands of future presidents tomorrow

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 15, 2025

Doom sells: why everyone's talking about the end times
The apocalypse is in vogue because our fascination with catastrophe is lucrative

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

AI is having some relationship issues
Companies such as OpenAI are running what amounts to a giant social experiment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Big Pharma is falling out of love with Britain
Life sciences should be a natural place to look for growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Westminster forgets that inflation matters
Most of those in the political world chafe at higher costs but, unlike voters, they are not at the sharp end

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Student digs merger gets a pass mark
The Unite-Empiric deal reflects tough conditions in the sector

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Why investors are losing their appetite for salad bowl chains
Amid pressure on consumer spending, fast food operators and casual dining chains are fighting back

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Trump could transform Caucasus with Armenia-Azerbaijan peace
Sidelining Russia and Iran and creating a lucrative new transit corridor would be a diplomatic coup

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Immersive art is much more than a digital light show
This way of presenting work is bringing in new audiences

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Chief executives can just be ‘good enough'
No leader can do it all. Recognising what is sufficient can be liberating.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

How to break out of a summer reading slump
The important thing is enjoyment. Find your slow lane and stick in it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Donald Trump's firing of US stats chief doesn't add up
Political attacks on independent data threaten public trust

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

The bond market stand-off
Plus survey response rates and the BLS

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Japan's pacifist self-image is under attack from realpolitik
At a Tokyo defence show, the shocking reality of preparing for possible future wars was unmissable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

Ad agencies are down but not yet out
The lavish Madison Avenue era is a distant memory as a leaner industry adapts to AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

What I witnessed at the battle of Orgreave
An inquiry into the pivotal confrontation of the 1984-85 miners' strike should not sanitise history

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

How dogs replaced children in Italy
As birth rates plummet, the country is fawning over — and spending on — pets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 14, 2025

The gold market is too important to be left to private clubs
The institutions underpinning the trading and storage of the precious metal remain opaque and under-regulated

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

Trump's tariffs turn from confused to chaotic
US trade policy is a cautionary tale but not yet a catalyst of global disaster

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

Lessons from an upbeat US earnings season
The Q2 results are an unreliable gauge of America's ability to weather tariffs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

Direct-to-consumer IPOs go from boom to bust
Broadly speaking, there is no longer a neat distinction between those pursuing physical and online sales

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

The AI dealmaking circus continues with Perplexity's bid for Chrome
Several things in this mooted deal are odd

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

Baltic foreign ministers: We know Russian occupation is never temporary
Land swaps and de facto annexation in Ukraine won't bring peace and could lead to decades of brutal subjugation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

It's time to consider shorts in the office
It's getting hotter — and men need to rethink the way they dress for work

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

Why bad ideas are always with us
Tariffs, Nimbyism, high debt — the victims of these things don't even know what they're losing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

What are my chances of ending up in a care home?
For many it's the big concern when it comes to pension planning — but the financial risk may not be as bad as you think

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Aug 13, 2025

UN plastics treaty is being hampered by climate obstruction tactics
Conflicting interests are coming to a head as countries attempt to end the scourge of pollution

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