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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 08, 2026

Bitcoin is still about $69,000 too high
The crypto crash is coming — and the landing won't be pretty

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 08, 2026

Disney's magic might find a home in Big Tech's kingdom
New chief Josh D'Amaro takes over as group faces pressing challenges

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 08, 2026

Is mid-life career malaise a joke?
A film about one professional's move into comedy shows the highs and lows of finding a new vocation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Lloyds Bank can afford to add some Wall Street swagger
The lender's push into corporate and institutional banking is a better idea than it sounds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Tech wreck signals a market reset
Rising tide might no longer support all sector stocks, let alone speculative dross like crypto

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Should you overpay your mortgage — or invest the money instead?
A new app aims to help homeowners clear loans faster

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Mandelson and the two elites
What the public sees as a ruling class is divided against itself

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

The treacherous business of screen-to-stage
A theatrical adaptation for ‘The Traitors' shows how audiences are being kept in the comfort zone

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

The Trevi Fountain is not just a cultural vending machine
Charging €2 to look creates a physical and psychological barrier between Rome and one of its best-loved monuments

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Restaurant reviewers are nothing if they're not critical
Critics shouldn't ‘be kind', they should be fair

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

For fashionable wine, look to the Loire
The region has everything that modern drinkers look for in a wine

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

‘I doubt I will eat better than I did here' — Jay Rayner reviews Mezzogiorno, Westminster
Francesco Mazzei's new restaurant gives Italian comfort food the grand hotel treatment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

A glimmer in the dark
We are all called in some way to invest in our collective humanity. The question is whether we show up

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

AI disrupting traditional careers may not be bad for children
If the normal pathways to financial security are vanishing, why not let your child follow their passions?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 07, 2026

Scotland faces its own revolt on the right
An unprecedented surge for Reform in May's Holyrood vote will challenge the nation's self-image

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Designers must carry the flame of friendship and co-operation
The Olympic torch expresses human values that are under attack today

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

How to design an Olympic torch
The flame expresses human values that are under attack today

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Prediction markets' warp-speed growth is their biggest risk
More wagers will draw even greater attention to a market already under regulatory scrutiny

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

The disappointing randomness of currency hegemony
We cannot know what the next dominant currency regime will be because all regimes are different

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Keir Starmer's weakening grip on power
Mandelson's ties to Epstein have damaged the prime minister, perhaps fatally

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Rio Tinto and Glencore may yet get their happy ending
Time will ratchet up the pressure on both sides to come together

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Counting the cost of money in politics
Revelations of Mandelson's cabinet leaks spotlight the symbiotic relationship between government and bankers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Funding the Muskverse will require even more audacious moves
If folding xAI into SpaceX proves the key to unlocking the next trove of capital, why stop there?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Funding the Muskverse will require ever more audacious moves
If folding xAI into SpaceX proves the key to unlocking the next trove of capital, why stop there?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Do I need to cut back on Deliveroo?
If you are asking, you already know the answer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Privatising the Fed's balance sheet
It can be done. But why bother?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Regulators should let me buy whatever I want
If the definition is doing it for money — aren't all investors professional?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

The perilous age of quantum politics
Think of Donald Trump as an energised particle colliding with a sensitive geopolitical nucleus

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Trump and the normalisation of deviance
Allowing dangerous behaviour to become the norm desensitises us, paving the way for disaster

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Why private equity won't rescue the UK's housebuilding efforts
Investors have little interest in build-to-rent projects given the dismal level of profits

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 06, 2026

Are tillandsias the ultimate house plants?
The popularity of air plants, remarkable orchids that do not need soil, has been soaring in the past decade

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Puma's new Chinese backer will give Nike a run for its money
Anta's sales have grown on average 17 per cent a year for the past five years, with the US maker of the famous swoosh managing 4 per cent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

The cautionary tale of gold and silver
Precious metals mania is just one area of excess in the financial system

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Venezuelan business looks to post-Maduro opportunities
Trump's military intervention has delivered the scenario corporate leaders always wanted — but can it last?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

AI agents are prompting human boom scrolling
Moltbook and Claude Cowork are pushing the ‘vibe coding' revolution forward

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

As software sinks, US oil majors are regaining their lustre
The date at which the world is supposed to hit peak oil keeps receding

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Airport screening won't stop the next pandemic
An outbreak of the Nipah virus near Kolkata is a reminder that hospital containment matters more than thermal scanning

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Mandelson and the money that never sleeps
This is truly grim for Keir Starmer, raising questions about his ethics as well as his judgment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Bringing euros to a weaponised currency fight
In monetary matters, the EU must live up to the current geopolitical moment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Trump is Europe's best enemy yet
Lack of a common foe enfeebled Europe — but not any more

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

It's not just a tech sell-off
And more on the sentiment puzzle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

There are good reasons to be cheerful about global trade
Donald Trump's inept tariff campaign hasn't yet derailed globalisation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

Where is AI showing up in the productivity data?
Signs of its effects are already starting to peek through

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

The beauty of friction
We are conditioned to treat resistance as a defect, but suppressing it comes with its own risks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 05, 2026

China has seized Sony's television halo
The company's planned joint venture with TCL marks a historic global shift

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Britain's inequitable student loan system
Graduate discontent is growing over their repayment terms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Novo Nordisk is biggest loser in weight-loss duopoly
Danish group's share of global GLP-1 market is shrinking while Eli Lilly's products are gaining ground

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Novo Nordisk is the biggest loser in the weight-loss duopoly
The Danish group's share of the global GLP-1 market is shrinking, while Eli Lilly's products are gaining ground

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Not all software faces the same threat from AI
From security services to those able to reinvent themselves, many may survive the AI armageddon

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

How the Bank of England can improve its decision-making
New role gives the central bank the opportunity to expand its rate-setting committee

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Santander's Ana Botín gets back to the family business: dealmaking
There is an industrial logic that justifies the risk in Webster Financial acquisition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

The angelic Meloni behind a fresco fiasco
A figure resembling Italy's prime minister on a Rome church wall blurred the lines between religion and politics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Are UK consumers about to rediscover their mojo?
The pieces are falling into place, but are not quite there yet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Britain can't ignore Europe and China at the same time
Tory criticism of Sir Keir Starmer's foreign policy shows the party is unserious

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Market concentration is nothing to worry about
It's just what markets do

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Tech Exchange
This series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry's leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, Chinese AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee talks about the competition between the technology's two superpowers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Reading the runes on a Warsh Fed
The presumptive next chair might be better than others on the list, but he is a confusing, perhaps confused, figure

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

How copper miners are squeezing their way out of a shortage
With demand set to soar, the industry has got inventive over extracting the metal using leaching initiatives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

The tyranny of targets
Not only is quantification changing our behaviour, but we're failing to notice this has happened

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

The Treasury market is treading in dangerous waters
Bank balance sheets lack capacity to intermediate the surging amount of trading in the US government bonds

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Who killed the British flat?
The government needs to revive the appeal of flats — but capping ground rents at £250 a year won't cut it

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Why absolutely everyone is peddling an AI application
We are either on the verge of widespread adoption or a terrible crash

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Everyone and their mother is peddling an AI application
We are either on the verge of widespread adoption or a terrible crash

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

Can I ask my ex-husband for more financial support?
When we divorced he claimed he was struggling, but I now suspect him of transferring wealth to a relative

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 04, 2026

How can I protect my children's inheritance?
I'm divorcing in my late 60s and my ex husband's new partner is much younger

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Can Tesla make its own chips?
History suggests such a venture is particularly prone to value destruction

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

The new rules of finance, courtesy of Elon Musk
Merger of SpaceX and xAI epitomises the way Big Tech has turned the corporate world on its head

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Iran's people stand to lose whether or not talks succeed
Trump is not negotiating to ease the burden of the regime's victims — and war will not make them safer

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Under Prabowo, Indonesia is veering off course
Investors are jittery about the government's fiscal and political record

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Artemis is a throwback to the golden age of lunar exploration
This US programme must contend with the difficulties of returning humans to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

The Epstein rot goes deep
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

The consumer sentiment puzzle deepens
The data is better; vibes are worse

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Scheming, joking, complaining: Moltbook's AI agents are just like us
Like humans, rules will need to be set and comings and goings tracked, highlighting how managers will always be needed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

No, the public is not irredeemably ignorant
But there is a disconnect between economists' metrics and people's perceptions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

UBI fans must remember a job is about more than the money
The value of work often gets left out of discussions about AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

Craft advertising lifts Lucky Saint's non-alcoholic beer
The London brand has drawn on British marketing traditions for its irreverent image

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 03, 2026

It's time for gardeners to ask some prickly questions about invasive species
We inherit gardens but not their histories. We love them but don't always know how plants got there, what damage they might be doing, and what to do with that knowledge

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Global investors need to go on Japan watch right now
Rises in government bond yields and weakness in the yen could have spillover effects on other markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Devon Energy's merger with Coterra looks a little too defensive
With oil prices stagnant and development costs high, investors seem none too impressed by this all-stock deal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

This is what a proper Brexit looks like
Prosperity and security will be driven by removing unnecessary barriers that hold businesses back

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

American brands have lost their cool
As boycotts spread, the US is discovering the price of being politically unpopular

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Xi's ominous purge of his top general
President's power play bodes badly whether it is a sign of strength or weakness

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Human connection still needed in credit investing
AI is a natural technology for the industry, but traders and investors still need to stress-test strategies with experts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

China is the main beneficiary of Trump's Arctic antics
As the US redeploys its navy and alienates allies, Beijing is filling the void

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

The melting of North America's ancient ice roads
Climate change is threatening traditions and livelihoods in the US Midwest and Canada

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

The ‘lipstick effect' now has a counterpart in the cake aisle
Consumers buying upmarket treats is a boost for supermarkets and suppliers alike

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Why Chinese electronics makers are betting on a TV revival
Taking majority control at Sony lets TCL spread fixed costs across a larger base

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Kevin Warsh: you have to make a bet
What comes after data dependence?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Markets are set to test Warsh
Persistent inflation may make it harder for Trump's choice of Fed chair to cut rates

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

The dilemmas for the UK created by a rupturing world
New priorities are needed to succeed amid unreliable and competing great powers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 02, 2026

Wanted: CEOs with backbone
The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis is a moment for leaders to challenge America's direction

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

Have you considered hiring a chief bullshit officer?
A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

How Russia weaponised global banking to silence dissidents
The Financial Action Task Force does not check whether terrorism labels are justified, letting autocrats abuse the system

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

Americans have drawn a red line in Minnesota
The Trump administration's partial retreat will not mend the damage to trust and lives

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

Don't fear the AI ‘jobpocalypse'
The technology hasn't yet hit employment notably, and could create more openings

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

How to deal with defecting MPs
Voters should be able to force parliamentarians who change parties to face the electorate

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

Who wants to live forever?
The idea of immortality is no longer confined to science fiction

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

What Davos taught me about corporate jargon
Business speak continues to astonish and is spreading far beyond the corporation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 01, 2026

Leaseholds and fleeceholds are a blot on the UK housing market
If more homes are to be built, the problem of rogue estate management companies has to be addressed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Jan 31, 2026

Will metals lose their lustre?
Unpacking the dramatic rallies in gold, silver and copper

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