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FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Rural England considers redrawing the map
Greater Manchester could boost Derbyshire communities but historical attempts to alter local government administrations have been unpopular

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Who will build Britain?
The UK needs to develop a pipeline of construction skills and knowledge

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Miners' hunt for new listing venues is as old as the hills
Glencore is considering moving its primary listing location from London to New York

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

It is bulldozers at dawn in the acquisitive world of equipment rental
Fragmented market creates fertile hunting grounds for would-be consolidators

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Britain's productivity puzzle is turning into a crisis
If the data can be believed, the UK economy is losing its economic dynamism

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Who will now stabilise the world economy?
Neither the US nor China is willing to assume the responsibility

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Europe's dependence on US tech is a critical weakness
In order to protect their sovereignty, the continent's leaders must invest in a digital ecosystem independent of America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

The trouble with IPOs
Is it really all that bad out there?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

How to fix Europe's securitisation market
Unclogging the pipes

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Can I sell my ailing father's Spanish home?
We have a lasting power of attorney set up, but will it be valid abroad?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Innovation and the cult of the firestarter
George Bernard Shaw was right — progress depends on ‘unreasonable' people

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

Science suggests we should stop using ‘bird brain' as a barb
The gap between avian and mammalian cognition may be narrower than we think

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 19, 2025

The water industry's big problem? Toxic levels of complexity
Jon Cunliffe has his work cut out with review that will try to find a fix for problems decades in the making

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

The emerging winners in Asia amid the trade wars
Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and increasingly India stand to gain

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

BYD's strategy shift is bad news for global automakers
The Chinese company is undercutting rivals by making advanced driver assistance systems a standard feature at no extra cost

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Europe and the crumbling Atlantic alliance
The continent has been shocked by Trump's antagonism but not yet jolted into action on defence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

European gas faces déjà vu all over again
Until the continent fixes its underlying energy mix it will find it hard to fully quash the siren song of Russian imports

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

In defence of the state
A complex society is best served by a competent, professional and neutral public service

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Elon Musk's wrecking ball
The world's richest man is taking a torch to the American state on behalf of Donald Trump

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Tencent changes the messaging on its AI strategy
By choosing DeepSeek instead of its own model, the tech giant is opting for flexibility over full in-house control

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Musk and markets: why Doge is not cutting through
Also in today's newsletter, JD Vance gives investors something other than tariffs to chew on for a change

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Paul Weiss's legal raid on London is a boost for the City
The UK expansion of the quintessential New York firm is a long-term bet on the importance of English commercial law

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

How European defence companies can rise to the challenge
Despite a fragmented landscape, industry momentum has been rising since Russia invaded Ukraine

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Don't dismiss Trump's idea of a Maga SWF
Proposal for a sovereign wealth fund should be taken seriously

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 18, 2025

Blame bad laws on an excess of coyness
Cutting corners in debate has only one result: poorly formulated policy

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Trump's reckless experiment with financial deregulation
Mindless slashing of red tape poses a threat to market stability

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Protections afforded to refugees benefit us all
Disregard for the rights of asylum seekers is the canary in the coal mine for international law

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Diet Coke is a symbol of modern office culture
Caffeinated soda is a productivity boost for those who claim to work punishingly long hours

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

The checkout button wars have come for PayPal
Worries that the payments group is losing ground to rivals including Apple and Shopify has led to a fall in shares

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Show me the evidence that City deregulation will help growth
There is a severe risk of ‘Treasury capture' as consumers are outgunned in the battle for the ear of policymakers

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Foxconn buckles up for the electric vehicle great race
Contract electronics manufacturer can get valuable industry experience from a partnership with Nissan

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Vance's real warning to Europe
Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Grok, o3 and ELMo — there's a reason AI names are so weird
Incoherent nomenclature is a tradition in the tech sector, where titles are often designed to amuse teams, not users

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Gen Z has turned against taking middle management roles
Such roles are seen as thankless slog by the youngest cohort of employees

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Before we build 1.5mn homes, we need to take a long hard look at what we already have
With hundreds of thousands of empty homes across the country, it's tragic that the UK can't accommodate its extensive need with existing buildings. Not only that — it's an opportunity to rethink how we want to live

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

We must fund oppositions properly to save democracy
Without resources, they will be grossly unprepared for the difficult business of governing

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 17, 2025

Trade isn't all about Trump
World business and commerce are changing in ways that have nothing to do with the US president's tariff threats

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The human resources reckoning
Few have sympathy for HR, but in difficult circumstances people managers are needed more than ever

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The jobs AI can do — and those it shouldn't
Business school professors pose four questions companies must ask about automation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

What social mobility policy gets wrong: the view from Blackpool
The UK needs a strategy to support young people not destined for university facing complex social problems

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The US must play to its strengths to compete with China in Latin America
Washington can no longer afford to stand idle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

Time to put Thames Water out of its misery
The government should place the struggling utility into special administration

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The human mind is in a recession
Technology strains our brain health, capacity and skills

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The exasperating state of modern marketing
Why is simple, straightforward clarity beyond so many organisations?

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

Copyright battles loom over artists and AI
Large language models allow image generators to produce pictures where infringement is hard to prove

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 16, 2025

The rights and wrongs of politicians ‘doing God'
JD Vance's musings on Catholic theology drew a rebuke from the pope himself

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

Who do you want to sound like?
Keir Starmer and the gift of a great voice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

What eggflation teaches us about must-have goods
Some researchers argue inelasticity is becoming a feature of the stock market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

Culture is a major tourist draw for the UK — let's start charging to preserve it
Rather than introduce paid museum entry as the Louvre plans to do, a UK hotel tax should help fund our global collections

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

Another blow for bordeaux: most 2021 reds are acidic and overpriced
A recent tasting of the four-year-old vintage was not a joyful experience

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

How to understand Elon Musk
His attack on government is not ideologically coherent but it can be traced to an engineering mindset that values radical ideas

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

Michelin and the return of deference
The more information there is in the world, the more people crave guidance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 15, 2025

Private equity should be wary of wooing retail investors
The industry risks becoming just another overregulated public market

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Smaller countries learn to hedge their bets in the age of Trump
This is a world in which no one can ‘price' peace any more

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Ukraine peace dividend spurs Europe's stock rally
The pessimists are on the back foot amid one of the strongest starts to any year in the region since 1987

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Forget the US — Europe has successfully put tariffs on itself
High internal barriers and regulatory hurdles are far more damaging for growth than anything America might impose

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Diversity and inclusion? We need more of it in our tree planting
British hawthorn, oak and birch enrich the landscape, but so do varieties hailing from as far away as China and Chile

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Donald Trump's boost to the bribery business
Rolling back anti-graft laws would turn global dealmaking into a free-for-all

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Family values cosplay takes over the Oval Office
Save us from the ‘performative parenting' of Musk and Vance

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

The tragedy of Britain's assisted dying debate
If the bill does go through, it is so narrowly drawn that few people will qualify

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Bank results poke a hole through UK economic clouds
Barclays and NatWest's numbers suggest there are reasons to be optimistic

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Investing in bank shares is not for the faint-hearted
Earnings multiples may look juicy, but banks are not like other companies

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

A feast for readers: why a good anthology is a gateway to great writing
The best of these literary collections are like an inviting home, filled with rooms you want to explore

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Ask Shrimsley: Help, I'm trapped by Martin Lewis!
Some are in danger of taking money-saving advice too far

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Is there a war discount in Europe?
Markets struggle to price politics

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Applovin's super-rally will be bittersweet for KKR
Some say the adtech start-up should be added as a member to an augmented Magnificent Eight

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

The mounting risks to US exceptionalism
Trump's fire hose of policy changes could make companies more cautious on spending and investment

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

Trump has put the ball back in Putin's court on Ukraine
The Russian president has to decide whether he is prepared to sacrifice some of his maximalist demands

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

What Elon can learn from the original Doge
Governance matters and other lessons from 13th century

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 14, 2025

What Elon Musk can learn from the original Doge
Why governance matters and other lessons from 13th century Venice

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Cage rattler Elliott may spy big value in a smaller BP
A deleveraged and refocused oil major will help to return it to the pack

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Trump's dangerous approach to peace in Ukraine
European leaders need to speed up efforts to take control of their defence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Satellite telephony launches into low-earning orbit
Mobile operators are striking deals to use satellites to deliver services in areas terrestrial networks cannot reach

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Big Tech is moving on from the DeepSeek shock
The industry is turning to packaging of AI technologies rather than focusing on model training

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

The jobs are there but America must now create the workers
Investment in training is crucial to produce the talent needed for the work of the future

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Make AI safe again
It is a fallacy to believe there is a trade-off between regulation and innovation

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Nikola could be the shiniest wreck in the EV scrapheap
Bet on hydrogen differentiates electric-truck maker from other auto start-ups littering the side of the road

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Tech should be the ally of the creative industries
In this global race, the UK risks squandering its chance to lead

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Britain will not thrive in a might is right world
Attacks on attorney-general Lord Hermer illuminate a wider battle about how to defend UK interests

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Big Tech's hinterland of ideas
Surveying the thinking that animates America's new oligarchs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Can Europe get over its break-up with the US?
Divorce sucks but could be a chance to restart from a better place

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Snobby's, Bristol: ‘It proved me wrong' — restaurant review
Don't hate the player, hate the name

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Inflation is back on the agenda
Plus markets and the constitutional order

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Magnificent 7? Try the Magnificent 47 for size
European banking stocks have had a blistering run, but there is still room for expansion

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

South Africa has been blindsided by Donald Trump
The US president's attacks on the country might actually unite its people

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Ask a Stylist: how to dress for a more senior role
Think beyond your base office wear and look for quirky aesthetics, standout details and items that sparkle

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Everything I wish I'd known before buying my first flat
Property market pitfalls are legion, only matched by a first-time buyer's naivety and emotion. Forewarned is forearmed

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Drax's power is not really green — but Britain needs it
The UK government's deal to retain the biomass electricity generating station is a painful but necessary compromise

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the anti-corruption cause
Recent moves by the president will open America's doors to bad actors

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Two key steps the UK could take on fiscal pressures and growth
Government should consider handing over inflation target to BoE and issue more index-linked gilts

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 13, 2025

Trump fought the trade law, and Trump won
Neither international nor domestic courts on their own will stop the US president's destructive tariffs

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

Shareholder capitalism, the Japanese way
An obsession with the UN's SDGs allows companies to create a smokescreen

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

The new AI arms race
America and China are vying for dominance, while Europe tries to compete

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

Why Argentina is back in love with the peso — for now
Despite Javier Milei's pledge to dollarise the economy, the national currency is having a resurgence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

China leaves Merck in need of a new profit injection
Sometimes the best offence can be good defence

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

SoftBank brings vision and volatility to big tech bets
AI is Masayoshi Son's most ambitious bet yet

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

Tariffs won't bring back America's unipolar moment
Trade is wrongly blamed for the relative decline of the US

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

The EU knows aid is not only a moral duty but a strategic necessity
As the winds of isolationism whip across the world, nations that value stability and prosperity must step up

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

Trump trade goes down, gold goes up
And emerging market stock indeces

FT.com - Comment & Analysis
Feb 12, 2025

The great climate disconnect
New attempts to prolong the fossil fuel era have come at precisely the wrong time

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