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Trump has undermined the US national security apparatus

Trump has undermined the US national security apparatus

War against Iran does not seem to have undergone the normal stress-testing

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Us Foreign Policy

Concierge Nation: welcome to white-glove America

Concierge Nation: welcome to white-glove America

Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything

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Personal finance

All respect, Timothée, art is about more than popularity

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

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Arts

Trump’s ‘shock and war’ makes this economic crisis different

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

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Global Economy

The Noma affair will leave a very nasty taste in the mouth

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

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Restaurants

Why Iran could become the next Iraq

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

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Middle Eastern Politics & Society

AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights

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

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Intellectual property

The Big Read. The oil price war

For an Iranian regime facing existential struggle, pushing crude up is key measure of success

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Middle east war

Show me a leader who doesn’t love a crisis

Show me a leader who doesn’t love a crisis

Global events hide mistakes, confer agency and are exciting to boot

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Companies

An Iran shock will further damage fragile inflation psychology

Business and households alike are worrying — the Fed should be too

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Us inflation

The FT View. Iran and the rising perils of AI in warfare

The FT View. Iran and the rising perils of AI in warfare

Limits on the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems are urgent

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Artificial Intelligence

How Labour should deal with the backbench rebel alliance

How Labour should deal with the backbench rebel alliance

Their influence is not inherently problematic — but such visible challenges to key policy proposals are

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Uk Politics

Iran is playing a long game

Iran is playing a long game

An asymmetric war that brings the global economy to a standstill could exhaust the US and force a ceasefire

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Middle east war

Iran, private credit and the echoes of 2008

Iran, private credit and the echoes of 2008

The investor exodus is unnerving, but the wider financial system is better prepared for shocks

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Economy

The Big Read. The Iranian school bombing and the information war

The Big Read. The Iranian school bombing and the information war

Evidence suggests that the US was most likely to be behind the attack that killed over 100 children

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Middle east war

The FT View. How the Iran war will change global business

The FT View. How the Iran war will change global business

Damage from the conflict is already having an impact on corporate strategy

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Global Economy

Silence is not golden when it comes to science and AI

Silence is not golden when it comes to science and AI

The scope of scientific inquiry is contracting as research focuses on data-rich problems

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Scientific research

British politicians have the wrong kind of money on the brain

British politicians have the wrong kind of money on the brain

Westminster struggles to talk seriously about most topics and in particular about the economy

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Uk Politics

Trump’s foreign policy will only push China and Russia closer together

Trump’s foreign policy will only push China and Russia closer together

Beijing and Moscow look to one another for energy and economic security amid geopolitical turbulence

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Chinese politics & policy

America risks financial credibility with payments deficit obsession

Imposing tariffs in response threatens to create a problem where none exists

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Us Economy

Which chokepoint wins in a game of geoeconomic Top Trumps?

It depends on its damage to the target, potential for blowback and durability

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Global Economy

Trump’s Iran folly is handing Xi Jinping weapons in the trade war

Despite China being a huge oil importer, US mismanagement will give Beijing the upper hand in upcoming talks

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Us-china trade dispute

The Big Read. JPMorgan and Jeffrey Epstein: the long goodbye

Red flags were raised about the sex offender’s activity since the early 2000s — but the bank continued with him for years after his arrest

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Financial Services

Europe needs to stop bickering to compete with China

The fight over ‘Made in Europe’ versus ‘Made with Europe’ is a pointless one

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Eu trade

The FT View. Turbulence tests South Korea’s stock market revival

Sharp swings are a reminder to Seoul that its reform agenda is incomplete

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South korean business & finance

In LA’s ‘Tehrangeles’, Trump’s war is popular

The largest community outside Iran danced in the streets but diverges with the president on a return to monarchy

11.03.2026 9

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Middle east war

Trump’s revolutionary sense of time is changing politics

Trump’s revolutionary sense of time is changing politics

The US president doesn’t think in terms of long-term strategy but rather in terms of deadlines

11.03.2026 9

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Donald Trump

China and Russia are capturing the global space sector

Beijing and Moscow are exploiting the extraplanetary ambitions of less developed countries

11.03.2026 7

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Space Industry

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern

In domestic and foreign policy, the British right’s vulnerability is its America-worship

11.03.2026 8

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Nigel Farage

The economic consequences of war with Iran

There are lasting lessons about energy resilience to be learnt from this conflict

11.03.2026 8

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Global Economy

How to fight deepfakes

People are now little better than chance at telling what’s real and what’s not

11.03.2026 8

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Artificial Intelligence

The Big Read. Pushing private assets: are Europe’s investors at risk of a mis-selling scandal?

New vehicles are being marketed to ordinary investors just as some similar products in the US have run into trouble

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Investing in funds

The FT View. There is no easy exit to Trump’s war

The US and Israeli attacks on Iran will leave the Middle East in greater turmoil

10.03.2026 7

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Middle east war

America has become an agent of chaos in world energy markets

A succession of US foreign policy choices has destabilised the oil industry

10.03.2026 10

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Us Foreign Policy

Taco on Iran will come too late for Trump

Taco on Iran will come too late for Trump

The US president has already done lasting damage to international trust in America

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Middle east war

Iran is a crucial test case for the American way of war

Iran is a crucial test case for the American way of war

The conflict in Ukraine seemed to cast doubt on a military model based on overwhelming air power

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Us department of defense

Britain’s safety net isn’t set up for a widespread jobs shock

Britain’s safety net isn’t set up for a widespread jobs shock

The state does not offer a temporary cushion to support those who were previously in work

10.03.2026 8

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Employment

The Big Read. The battle for France’s cities sets the stage for presidential showdown

Political trends set to shape next year’s pivotal vote are on display in this month’s municipal elections

10.03.2026 6

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French Politics

The FT View. The déjà vu of Europe’s energy shock

The UK and EU must raise their game on power security

09.03.2026 8

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Global Economy

The new food fad sweeping Korea

The new food fad sweeping Korea

Purchase limits had to be imposed on Dubai chewy cookies

09.03.2026 9

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Retail & consumer industry

Trump’s Venezuela strategy has failed in Iran

The appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei has dashed the US president’s hope of picking Iran’s new leader

09.03.2026 7

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Us Foreign Policy

The Big Read. China said it ended poverty. Did it?

The country has lifted more than 700mn people out of indigence, but some doubt Xi Jinping’s claim that the mission is complete

09.03.2026 8

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Chinese society

Think geopolitics is bad? Look at geoeconomics

Markets suggest the lran ramifications are likely to drag on and spread

09.03.2026 10

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Global Economy

China’s growth target is a global problem

Beijing’s export offensive could be more destabilising than Trump’s tariffs

09.03.2026 9

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Chinese Economy

Latin America’s lithium triangle is now in the hands of the right

Latin America’s lithium triangle is now in the hands of the right

A reversal of political fortune in the region has major implications for critical minerals

08.03.2026 10

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Energy sector

Europe’s impotence extends to energy

The political momentum behind decarbonising the continent’s energy system has dissipated

08.03.2026 10

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Eu energy

The FT View. Why California’s plan to tax billionaires is misguided

The FT View. Why California’s plan to tax billionaires is misguided

In America’s federal system, the rich can easily shift to more competitive states

08.03.2026 9

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California

America chose this war — and must now choose how to end it

However this conflict concludes, the US and Iran’s new leaders will have to revisit the same issues that sparked hostilities

08.03.2026 9

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Us Foreign Policy

Liberals should be less shy about saying what they stand for

Liberals should be less shy about saying what they stand for

Failure to defend their ideology has created an intellectual vacuum on the American left

08.03.2026 7

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Us politics & policy

The war of unintended consequences

The war of unintended consequences

Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone

07.03.2026 8

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Middle east war