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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Can Jane Austen help my teenager?
The writer's Regency settings hold lessons for making friends on social media

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Interest rates take fright
The market's calm in the face of war is beginning to crack

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

The case for slicing up consumer conglomerates further
Investors are better able to value pure plays, while lacklustre units can dilute overall growth and margins at sprawling companies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Small rituals of survival in Tehran
War feels like something that should have been left behind in a more brutal century

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Quiet rituals of survival in Tehran
War feels like something that should have been left behind in a more brutal century

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Rituals of survival in Tehran
War feels like something that should have been left behind in a more brutal century

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Maritime security is key to global energy supplies
Companies need to know their vessels can pass through busy shipping lanes repeatedly and safely

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

The war over tail risks is in full swing
Trump's financial fight with insurers will affect business confidence as much as the kinetic battle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 20, 2026

Musks remain at the top table of first-class roses
The centenary of the great rosarian Joseph Pemberton's death is a beautiful excuse to revisit these hardy, floriferous and intensely scented varieties

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

This gas crisis is bad — but not as bad as the last one
Whatever happens in the Middle East, European prices are unlikely to rise as much as they did in 2022

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Investors' important bet on nuclear fusion
The elusive power source is gradually moving closer to becoming a reality

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Europe needs to prepare now for an extended energy shock
Flows of oil and gas do not resume like turning a tap back on

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

War between Afghanistan and Pakistan has much wider consequences
When these countries become arenas for militancy, the repercussions reverberate far beyond their borders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Tokens may soon drive the AI economy
Jensen Huang of Nvidia has outlined a future based around the production, consumption and monetisation of output units

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

The UK must accept it is no longer a global power
Starmer has failed to level with the public that Britain's control over its destiny is limited

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Being stranded abroad sold me on AI travel agents
Some users may be reluctant to increase their dependence on Big Tech companies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Trustpilot deserves a more favourable appraisal
The online review platform floated in 2021 and now trades below its debut price

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

The dynamic globalisation machine will overcome the Iran shock
Short-term crisis management in shipping should not be mistaken for fatal weakness in trade

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

How (not) to help with high energy prices
Heed the lessons from 2022

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Trump's wars are made for TV
And, tragically, the real life death toll seems irrelevant

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

The Fed can only wait and wonder
Plus, the stock market's wartime reversal

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Spain is a role model in weathering Iranian oil shocks
Hedge funds are getting battered by a sharp spike in oil prices and a broad market selloff unraveling crowded trades as the Iran war continues.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Scale is not everything in asset management
Seeking size for its own sake can distract fund managers from focusing on clients and shareholders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Is AI improving economics?
It's expanding the scope of research but challenging the profession's process of weeding out mistakes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Economists have caught the AI bug
It's expanding the scope of research but challenging the profession's process of weeding out mistakes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Trump sails into battle with Lloyd's of London
The market's historic strength in marine war insurance is being challenged by the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

When it comes to your pension, don't believe the hype about private equity
Individual investors should be wary of the claims made — especially when they come from politicians

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 19, 2026

Why bank cards may be heading the way of the cheque book
The £100 cap on contactless card spending is lifted today — but digital wallets matter more for future growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

AI is moving from answering questions to taking action
China is likely to be both the testing ground and a leader in the use of agents

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

America's war on Iran is a gift to Vladimir Putin
Ukraine's other allies need to limit the windfall to Moscow

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Silver linings to the heavy cloud of higher energy prices
Natural gas consumption has fallen and resilience has improved across Europe and in the UK

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Nintendo wins by not playing the power game
The company's exclusive titles have kept gamers loyal without chasing technological superiority

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

How hard will war hit the Gulf's economies?
The highly globalised UAE has felt the impact of conflict more than insular Saudi Arabia

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Ingredients for a successful LBO: lots of equity, and some Trump stardust
The financing of Electronic Arts is the biggest of its kind since the financial crisis

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

How the world learned to love the bomb
Nuclear proliferation could be the way of the future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Can AI help me find a home?
New technology is transforming house-hunting — but will Machine vision and Gaussian splats replace portals and estate agents?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Cyborg cockroaches are coming to a pipeline near you
The remote-controlled insects are equipped with cameras to search disaster zones and check for infrastructure damage

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

What Reeves misses in pursuit of ‘securonomics'
UK is too slow to boost defence spending while underfunding areas of comparative advantage

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

K-shaped consumer credit
Plus, investing in the Ukraine build-out

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Tech Exchange
This series features conversations between FT journalists and the technology industry's leaders, innovators, and thinkers. In the latest instalment, GV's Tom Hulme talks about the AI investment cycle and predicts a comeback for Google Glass-style smart glasses

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Trump has broken it. Now he owns it
Continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens the movement of gas and fertilisers as well as oil

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Now it's Paramount that faces one battle after another
Media mogul David Ellison has bagged the prize — but the deal needs to work for shareholders

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

How can we tell good AI from bad?
More lessons from the jagged frontiers of new technology

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Europe's airlines eye opportunities from Iran war fallout
With services of dominant Gulf rivals disrupted, there is a brief window to provide direct flights that avoid the region's hubs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

Private credit's game of footsie is getting riskier
Stronger guardrails are needed before these funds seep into the $9tn US retirement market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

What happens to a joint mortgage when one person moves out?
I'm separating from my wife and have left the family home

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 18, 2026

How a vast refinery could mend Nigeria's relationship with oil
When supply becomes boringly reliable, the economy and the national mood can shift

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Reeves' ambitious growth rhetoric clashes with reality
The chancellor's plans for a reset with the EU lack credibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

The era of US dominance in economic warfare is over
America has long used sanctions to coerce adversaries, but Iran and China can wield powerful economic weapons too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Salesforce reckons software and debt do mix after all
The company is making use of one market trend to offset the unhelpful effects of another

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

What's with all the AI lobsters?
OpenClaw's phenomenally popular agent is a reminder of pre-techlash days

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

When Amazon and JD.com lock horns, it's shoppers that win
The risk for the Chinese contender is one of cash burn as it pursues expansion at home and overseas

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

China is not going to bail Trump out
The US president has a better chance of cajoling help from Nato partners

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Oil producers: buy the peace, not the war
Plus, PCE data drama

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Who is winning the Middle East war?
Iran has taken a beating but it retains the advantages of geography, time and a superior tolerance for pain

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Why it's hard for humans to have the final say over AI
We need to learn from the mistakes we have made in the past

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

What the world can learn from Ireland's battle to power data centres
The country is a canary in the coal mine for dealing with the strains of a boom in energy demand

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Oil prices reignite great airline debate: to hedge or not?
There is a case for bosses to accept that market forces, like bad weather, just have to be navigated as they arise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Should you date someone with the same taste in architecture?
You look for a soulmate with similar tastes in food and music — why not design? It might reduce the number of arguments if you do decide to move in together

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 17, 2026

Europe is also at risk from credit cockroaches
Lenders should brace for US-style legal action over acting in co-operation over debt restructuring

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Trump's coalition of the unwilling
US allies have a right to avoid being sucked into a war they never sought

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Orcel's brash M&A tactics inch UniCredit closer to success
Few shareholders will accept the miserly offer for Commerzbank — but that doesn't matter

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Labour must not lose my generation of voters
The defeat by the Greens in Greater Manchester demonstrates the danger of failing to address economic burdens

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

AI world models need to understand cause and effect
They should be able to map how reality works, not just how it looks

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Why Trump is obsessed with this Chicago-based shoe label
The president may buy Florsheim's cap-toe Oxfords for his cabinet members. But its parent company is suing his government over tariffs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

What do we really gain from no-cry onions?
Frankensteining low-pungency vegetables is popular, but with food the longer way round is often more enjoyable

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Why Hormuz will haunt us long after this war ends
Iran has shown that control of the strait gives it a stranglehold over the world economy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

2022 redux?
War makes it possible.

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

The UK is struggling to achieve its aims on clean energy
Our economy remains highly fossil fuel-dependent partly because we are not electrifying in the desired way

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Was Revolut's banking licence worth the wait?
Group would be wise to move gradually with its lending ambitions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Private credit is key to keep Main Street moving
Despite recent concerns, it helps sustain job creation and economic growth

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Boards must feel they can think for themselves
More companies should use the flexibility in the UK corporate governance code

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 16, 2026

Highly skilled workers have been training AI — that comes at a cost
Students entering this new labour market should plan what they share, rethink competition and consider collective bargaining

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

Concierge Nation: welcome to white-glove America
Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

Trump has undermined the US national security apparatus
War against Iran does not seem to have undergone the normal stress-testing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

Iran war should prompt a North Sea rethink
Sweating the UK's natural gas assets can support the country's green transition

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

Trump's ‘shock and war' makes this economic crisis different
Conflict with Iran will leave deeper and more lasting scars than last year's tariffs crisis

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

Wealth taxes' design flaws consign them to failure
It may be easier for countries sitting on large deficits to tighten the screws on existing levies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

All respect, Timothée, art is about more than popularity
Some of the outrage appears disingenuous but the actor is wrong in his dismissal of opera and ballet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 15, 2026

The endlessly fascinating office protected species
Being deemed close to the boss lets you get away with murder — until it doesn't

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Higher oil prices are just a short-term worry
Long-term inflation expectations are staying steady

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Sovereign AI is a bet on the economies of anti-scale
Deglobalisation is expensive for individual countries, but a windfall for their suppliers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

The Noma affair will leave a very nasty taste in the mouth
High-end restaurants as a force for moral good was an idea long lacking in self-awareness

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Pinterest's mood board should include a potential sale
Many of its users may gather ideas on the platform but shop somewhere else

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights
The problem is not that the law is unfit for the 21st century but that it is being flouted

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Are markets being too complacent about the Iran war?
Sometimes crises do not blow over as investors might hope

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Donald Trump, globalist
It should not have taken the Iran war to finish the idea that he is ‘isolationist'

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Why Iran could become the next Iraq
The first Gulf war left a weakened regime in place without a political settlement — paving the way for future conflict

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Deepfakes, wigs and the war on truth
Amid the online slop of casual deceptions, everything now requires a second look

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

What to do when you own more wine than you'll ever drink
A generation of serious collectors are confronting an enviable problem: more bottles than time

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

What a food truck and a fine dining restaurant can tell us about life in Puerto Rico — restaurant review
Leña Eh and 1919 sit at opposite ends of San Juan's restaurant scene

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Under 40? Open a Lifetime Isa while you still can
A replacement Isa for first-time buyers risks losing important benefits of investing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 14, 2026

Is your Isa strategy up to date?
Upcoming changes to pensions rules will have a significant impact on how people use Isas in retirement

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Show me a leader who doesn't love a crisis
Global events hide mistakes, confer agency and are exciting to boot

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran war will further damage fragile inflation psychology
Business and households alike are worrying — the Fed should be too

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

How Labour should deal with the backbench rebel alliance
Their influence is not inherently problematic — but such visible challenges to key policy proposals are

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Iran and the rising perils of AI in warfare
Limits on the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems are urgent

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Private credit has half the ingredients of a financial crisis
Worries arise that valuations shown on balance sheets don't match reality

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Lessons from an unwise banking photo shoot
An interview with four young men in finance dressed in Armani jackets and Hermès ties exposes several tensions

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Mar 13, 2026

Should I go to the reunion?
If you're even halfway happy with your life choices, I say go for it

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