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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 22, 2026

It is time for Europe to weaponise its chokepoints
China and others have long been adept at using supply chains to their advantage — the EU should do the same

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 22, 2026

Smart glasses give a glimpse of how AI threatens physical goods too
It's now possible to see a future where smart eyewear could be ubiquitous

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 22, 2026

This meeting is being recorded. Did you know?
AI is fuelling a surge in recorded work meetings that we need to think about more carefully

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

Year of the equal-weighted S&P 500?
The tide has turned against the cap-weighted index

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

The Supreme Court's tariff blow to Trump
Uncertainty will linger as the president tests alternative legal options

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

What social media gave us
The bans on it are right but it added to the intellectual life of the world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

The royal crisis of un-prince Andrew
By endorsing the independence of the police, his family is eager to show it will be held accountable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

The haven asset status of US Treasuries is eroding
Trump has come close to exploding one of the great myths of the investment world

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

Britain lacks a Magnificent Seven, but at least it has a meme stock
Raspberry Pi has more substance than some former retail-investor darlings

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

This Winter Olympics has been a crash course in being human
Milan-Cortina has offered wipeouts, weird scandals and a bracing reminder that painful failure is an essential part of sport — and life

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

The value of tenderness
How can we remain open in a world that seems to insist on encouraging indifference and self-interest?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

The Porter's Table, London: A brand extension too far for Guinness — restaurant review
The grill restaurant in Covent Garden's new brewery-meets-merch shop has all the charm of a new-build hotel

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 21, 2026

How to sum up Spanish wine in six glasses (none of them sherry)
Plus, a dispatch from Barcelona Wine Week

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Main Street banks are pushing into markets and trading
Consumer-facing institutions are expanding in areas considered more Wall Street territory

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Starmer's government hasn't practised what it preached
The prime minister was elected on a promise to clean up Westminster — he has failed to deliver

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

The message of Britain's royal arrest
Probe into former Prince Andrew over Epstein ties is an example for the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

The Supreme Court has delivered an overdue rebuke to Donald Trump on tariffs
It turns out that even conservative justices will only accept so many assaults on legal and constitutional norms

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Only an army — and true integration — will solve Europe's defence problem
Atlanticists fear this would hasten America's departure from the continent, but what is the alternative?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence
Insufficient details about the US data intelligence company's recent contract have been made public

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

New York Knicks spin-off puts quirks of sports M&A at centre court
Separating its two assets would be a whole new ball game for Madison Square Garden Sports

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

How BrewDog got punked
Self-belief and ambition become flaws when amplified by managerial power and big money

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Tides of tax drive high earners to offshore bonds
Higher rates and frozen thresholds are pushing more higher earners towards the niche investment vehicle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Can AI improve my personal life?
Face-recognition tech is to be avoided, but there could be other potential wins

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

A dash of ‘schmuck insurance' could help Netflix win Warner Bros
A little financial creativity from the streaming giant should not be a stretch

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Nobody knows very much about where alpha comes from
Statistics Theory

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

OpenClaw and the privacy problem of agentic AI
How can you be sure that personal digital agents will always be working in your best interests

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

The fund manager pay gap persists
Even in a competitive, performance-driven industry, female and minority managers are paid less and are more likely to be fired

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Reasons to worry about America's investment position with the rest of the world
Data shows that our global financial system is plagued with serious but often ignored imbalances

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

‘Is university still worth it?' is the wrong question
The graduate earnings premium isn't really measuring what most people think

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

Dear ChatGPT, please construct me an optimal portfolio
AI is already smarter and more knowledgeable than all financial advisers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

How the UK accidentally shackled itself to Mastercard
Instead of wresting power from a banking oligopoly, the UK's payments regulator ended up strengthening a duopoly

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 20, 2026

The genius and joys of pelargoniums
Order in bulk now and admire their floriferous charms for months on end

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

America must share the benefits of AI leadership
We cannot allow the adoption gap between advanced and developing economies to grow

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Why Iran is betting on war
Tehran thinks a drawn-out conflict could eventually yield a better deal than what Trump is offering today

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Metals traders will benefit from a fractured world
Tariffs have supercharged turbulence in commodity markets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Nestlé is finally changing its formula for the better
Swiss consumer goods group has collapsed its multipronged business down to four units

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Nestlé is finally changing its recipe for the better
Swiss consumer goods group has collapsed its multipronged business down to four units

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Europe's resurgent peripheral economies
Fiscal discipline and structural reforms are paying off

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

How ‘homeland' put America on the path to illiberalism
A phrase from the 1990s altered America's sense of itself — and its political trajectory

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

The Conservatives' foundational sin
A party that once mocked the ‘magic money tree' appears to have built its own house in the branches

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

British politics has a small-money problem
Cheap to buy, under-regulated, no wonder the UK is vulnerable to corruption by foreigners

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Europe is not thinking straight on competitiveness
Policy debate is held back by unresolved contradictions in how leaders understand the economic challenge

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Dollar doldrums
We don't believe in regime change, yet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Private equity spies a way to cut the cost of Electronic Arts' buyout
EA's owners have invoked a ‘defeasance' clause in the bond documentation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Who's afraid of the big bad trade deficit?
The divergence between the British and American attitudes isn't entirely justified

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Why UK small-caps might benefit from global shift by investors
An undervalued and overlooked sector is starting to draw more support

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2026

Hampstead's retro cafés fight back against a revamp
London life is a muddle, but not all locals want to see things tidied up

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Is an AI price war about to begin?
Assumptions underpinning valuations of big US groups might be too optimistic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

When China is chic, European luxury brands should worry
Country is no longer seen as a factory pumping out cheap copycat goods

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

An old party touts a new beginning in Bangladesh
The BNP has won back power but must change the nation's politics to satisfy voters

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Does ChatGPT think you're Welsh too?
In spite of glitches, the tech sector is certain that voice is the next frontier in AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

The relentless rise of liberal tax Nimbys
People love progressive changes in theory but hate them in practice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Warner Bros battle would be so much simpler in the UK
The fight for WBD has various quirks unknown on the other side of the pond

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Maga will regret embracing Europe's hard right
Nationalists on the continent have historically opposed America more than anything else

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Help make the world financially literate
The FT's campaign has reached thousands of schools and with your help can reach many more

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Europe should treat energy security as defence policy
We must move beyond thinking solely in terms of efficiency and decarbonisation to prioritise resilience

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Australia's social media ban is a high-stakes experiment
Compliance with the law barring access for under-16s does not guarantee teenage safety online

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

The software sell-off, part II
A new kind of competition?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Tech Exchange
This series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry's leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, Synthesia's Victor Riparbelli talks about his mission to reinvent video content creation and how Europe can compete in the global AI race

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Church of England pension fund tempts an earthly reckoning
The fund is in surplus after a period of high interest rates, but it is heavily invested in risky assets

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Brain drain is undermining America's scientific edge
Policy decisions grounded in Maga talking points are helping to fuel a PhD exodus from government

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

The truth about population decline
Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Why is the UK falling back in love with credit cards?
Rising unemployment and record consumer debt do not tell the whole story

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

Europe's creaking carbon tax is in need of repair
The emissions trading system has been a success so far but the next phase will be harder to pull off

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

How can I settle the boundary row with my neighbour?
I don't want to fall out with them or get into an expensive dispute

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

If US regulators won't hold auditors to account, will the courts?
Trio of cases provides rulings on how responsible accountants are for spotting fraud and errors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2026

The link between material and moral flourishing is real
Two decades after he wrote it, an economics professor's thesis is still one of this century's most prescient

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

A new era of US antitrust-lite leaves investors little better off
A Texas federal court has invalidated Biden-era rules demanding more details when seeking approval for deals

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Labour's own goals on jobs
Raising payroll taxes and the minimum wage has hurt young workers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Russia is using monuments to peddle misinformation
Statues are not always about memory — they are becoming Moscow's latest weapon

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

It's Gavin Newsom's show for now
But America's Democratic voters will be a much tougher sell for the California governor than foreigners

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

The housing market is not getting much better
And neither is inflation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Perhaps we should all be banned from social media
Focusing only on under-16s obscures the lack of internet safeguards for everyone else

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

We have to stop calling some jobs ‘low skilled'
Freeing ourselves of these labels might help young people to think more creatively about the future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

US markets and the economy are heading into uncharted territory
The Fed might cut rates despite a healthy economy and a weakening dollar

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Should you have a television in the bedroom?
For some, it is sacrilege, a terrible slide into slobbishness — for others it's the ultimate indulgence, cosplaying life in a five-star hotel

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Software isn't dead, but its cosy business model might be
Companies must rethink charging policy to reflect tasks completed rather than number of users

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2026

Software isn't dead, but its cozy business model might be
Companies must rethink their charging policy to reflect tasks completed rather than number of users

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Europe's path to security without the US
The heads of Nato and EU Commission offer competing visions. Both have a point

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Lunar New Year brings nonstop nagging for childless Chinese
Young people are sharing tips on how to deflect parental inquisitions during the holidays

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Everything you thought about the US labour market is wrong
The conventional view has struggled to contend with robust economic growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

It's time for the great and mostly pointless yearly analyst bake-off
For rankings to really matter, they should improve the end-product

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Africa needs its own credit rating agency
How and on what basis the continent's governments can secure financing should not be based on external discretion

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Souping up data centres could give industrial firms an extra AI boost
Rethinking the boiler rooms of artificial intelligence lacks glamour but is big on impact

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Why Rubio failed to repair the transatlantic rift
A moment of calm in relations between Europe and the US is a prelude to crises ahead

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Student loans show that hard policy choices will only get harder
The debate over university funding is a good example of the intractable challenges facing the UK government

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Boardroom pay deserves a rethink
As demands intensify and listed companies compete for talent with private capital, pay needs to be re-evaluated

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

This time really could be different on jobs
Three catalysts are driving an intensifying divergence between a cooling US labour market and strong GDP growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2026

Are we killing birds with kindness?
New evidence suggests that feeding our feathered friends is spreading disease and diminishing numbers. But stopping seems cruel

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Why teaching business ethics matters more than ever
With legal guardrails being dismantled, it is crucial that MBA students learn to wrestle with moral questions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Being retired shouldn't mean working for free
‘Quick asks' from former colleagues and friends must respect professional boundaries

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

How China could win the geopolitical game by default
Mercurial shifts in US foreign policy under Trump have left leaders of other countries baffled

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Yes, we should preserve western culture but not like this?.?.?.
The idea that we must rely on the likes of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kid Rock as custodians is laughable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Britain's penchant for self-destruction
Political instability saps confidence, investment and policymakers' bandwidth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

The great software stock meltdown
Sell-off may be overdone, but companies need to move faster to respond to AI

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Bad Bunny and the real America
The NFL halftime show was great entertainment — and a roadmap for a better US foreign policy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Hims & Hers is a brave bet on solving the disrupter's dilemma
Plan to make longevity affordable means muscling in on territory occupied by drugs giants and pharmacies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

Hims & Hers is a brave bet on solving the disruptor's dilemma
Plan to make longevity affordable means muscling in on territory occupied by drugs giants and pharmacies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

The age of the disposable leader
Chief executive churnover is less visible than political headrolling but can be just as disruptive

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2026

The AI productivity take-off is finally visible
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

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