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What’s really going on in the UK labour market?

Getting clear about how much slack there is will tell us how tight monetary policy should be

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Uk Economy

Lex. Meet the Willy Wonka of failed US microcaps

Billionaire investor Brad Jacobs once again is using a small unloved company as his acquisition vehicle

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Mergers & Acquisitions

The wonderful shallowness of Andy Burnham

He makes leftwing gestures to avoid taking leftwing action. Britain should thank its stars

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Uk Politics

We need to test drugs on newborns despite the risks

Very few medicines are developed with young infants in mind, and this can have devastating consequences

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Medical Science

The Big Read. The end of cheap money is coming for corporate America

Borrowing costs are rising. That’s hurting some companies more than others

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Us Companies

Three cheers for an independent American judiciary

Strong rulings to protect electoral integrity helped pave the way for a peaceful and decisive midterm vote

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

Democracy’s future is at stake in Ukraine

Elections show the importance of victory in the conflict between despotism and democracy

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War In Ukraine

Why the Grand Canyon is missing a billion years of rocks

A new paper on the Great Unconformity advances a novel theory on one of geology’s great mysteries

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Science

The FT View. Battle to reclaim the Republican Party

The choice is America First without Trump or a swing to a broader pragmatism

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Us Politics & Policy

Burnham’s fiscal devolution leap is crucial — and long overdue

Trying to get stuff done without these new powers and funding streams has been too difficult for elected mayors

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English Devolution

Trump is taking the Alamo route

Accepting defeat with grace would go against a lifetime of going for broke

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Donald Trump

The Big Read. The last of the Botíns

The Santander chief says she will be the last in her family to run the bank

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Ana Botin

No, Brits have not fallen out of love with work

There is a more straightforward reason for employees’ decreased willingness to go above and beyond — not enough money and control

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Social Affairs

The high price of Japan’s disaster-proof society

Telling people to stock up is one thing but the Japanese know that building a stockpile of civil credibility requires greater effort

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Japanese Society

Democrats need to use the power of the purse

Through using their strengths on spending, they can stymie and reverse much of Trump’s agenda

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Us Politics & Policy

The FT View. Nvidia’s ‘key man’ risk

Some of the leading AI companies are dangerously reliant on single executives

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Corporate Governance

Despite protests in Paris, Céline Dion will go on

A sold-out run by the queen of power ballads, extended into 2027, is a rare bit of good news for France amid nationwide strikes

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Ft Edit

The UK Treasury needs to keep consumers front and centre

The Financial Services and Markets Bill sees the pendulum swinging purposefully towards deregulation

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Uk Financial Regulation

Trump, Putin and the short war illusion

The American and Russian leaders have both launched failed wars. Will Xi Jinping learn the right lesson?

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Geopolitics

Britain must take a cue from the Nordics on total defence

Our partners in the High North understand that every citizen, community and company has a duty

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Uk Defence

The Big Read. The great British sell-off

Companies worth half a trillion pounds have been snapped up by foreign buyers over the past decade

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Mergers & Acquisitions

What Democrats must do now

To keep power and make real change, they need to tell the American people painful truths

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Us Politics & Policy

A new economic agenda for America

Pro-growth policies on their own won’t address the concerns of voters worried about the cost of living

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Us Economy

The FT View. Hacks expose the flaws of the connected world

Binance and supermarket freezers reveal the costs of digitisation

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Cyber Security

Is Europe getting serious about ending tech dependence?

Brussels is moving in the right direction but could push national governments further

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Eu Tech Regulation

America is craving a return to community

The midterms are only the latest sign of hope

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Us Politics & Policy

Obituary. John Frieda, celebrity hairstylist and businessman, 1951-2026

The coiffeur revolutionised hairdressing with his line of styling products

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John Frieda

The Big Read. Trump’s defeat heralds a US retreat

American retrenchment could change Middle East balance of power and signify opportunities for China

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Us Foreign Policy

The UK has few easy options for rejoining a ‘traumatised’ EU

Accession is really not a negotiation. It is a process and candidates must tick all the relevant boxes

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Brexit

An apology for slavery will help build trust across the Commonwealth

The Caribbean Community has 10 relatively modest proposals for repairing relations with the UK

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Uk Foreign Policy

No, ‘mogging’ does not signal the decline of the English language

The popularity of manosphere vocabulary takes the sting out of a harmful ideology

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Us Society

The mother of all American course corrections

US midterms are the latest confirmation that reports of the death of liberal democracy have been much exaggerated

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

The FT View. A new phase in the tech market correction

Investors are no longer pricing in accelerating AI growth

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Us Equities

Can Labour unpick the immigration knot?

The Home Office must restore public faith wrecked by the gulf between political rhetoric and reality

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Uk Immigration

James Talarico: the Democrats’ rising star who turned Texas blue

The 37-year-old senator-elect combined Christian faith and anti-corruption messaging to give the left its first statewide win in decades

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Us Politics & Policy

The Big Read. Xi Jinping’s great purge

Millions have been disciplined

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Chinese Politics & Policy

The post-midterms playbook for America Inc

Robust institutions have been and always will be the bedrock of US capitalism

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

The FT View. The UK-EU reset is a deal worth doing

But Britain’s hard-pressed universities should not be left worse off

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Uk Universities

South Africa’s incredible shrinking ANC

The movement of Nelson Mandela has been reduced to a minority party in the country’s largest cities

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South African Politics

The onward march of cognitive capitalism

Billions can now access AI. This could spread wealth, or concentrate power further among the tech elite

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Artificial Intelligence

If migrants want better lives for their kids, where do they get them?

In continental Europe, migrants’ daughters are more mobile than their sons

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Us Immigration

Politicians, voters really don’t care about your broad statistics

Positive facts mean nothing if people are not personally experiencing solid real income growth

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

Europe can’t assume the old America is coming back

The end of Trumpism doesn’t ensure the return of an outward-looking superpower willing to underwrite other countries’ defence

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Donald Trump

The Big Read. The next US presidential race has begun

The Republicans and Democrats positioning themselves for a run at the Oval Office in 2028

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Us Presidential Election 2028

Trump’s economic agenda wasn’t Republican enough

The president promised — but did not deliver — more manufacturing jobs and higher employment rates for native-born Americans

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

The FT View. The beginning of the end of the age of Trump

A stunning rebuke by Americans offers a chance to start rebuilding US democracy

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

The party’s over for the Trumpsterz

Dancing gives way to dejection at Florida festivities

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

Trump’s slapdown by America is one for the ages

In multiple midterm races the president’s heavy-handed input boomeranged

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

Anthropic is an opportunity to rethink IPO rules

To protect retail investors, we should stop permitting the deferral of stock-based employee compensation costs

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Technology Sector

How the Trump era crashed

The US president forgot the economic bit of populism

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Us Midterm Elections 2026