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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

thursday 10

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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

04.11.2026 20

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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

Blue wave sweeps markets back towards normality

US midterm results may point to more restraints on the Trump administration

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Equities

The Big Read. The $20bn scandal shaking Turkey

Investors have lost billions. Critics denounce Erdoğan’s administration for cronyism

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Turkish Politics

Are we ready for an AI bust?

The longer the investment surge and the associated financial engineering continue, the bigger the negative impact is likely to be when it ends

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Equities

The FT View. A chill wind in the AI credit market

Investors are demanding more to finance the data centre boom

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Corporate Bonds

The hidden power of electricity

The energy transition is not as impossible as we’ve been led to think

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Renewable Energy

Our current AI moment has darker historical echoes

If you are looking for past instances of transformative capitalist mobilisation, you need to consider the age of empire

03.11.2026 20

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Artificial Intelligence

What Weil Gotshal teaches us about how law firms die

When partners start leaving to earn more money elsewhere, collapse becomes inevitable

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Weil Gotshal & Manges Llp

The Big Read. Why America is struggling to power the AI boom

The US is building electricity lines at a quarter the rate of a decade ago

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Us

The AI problem we feared is not the AI problem we got

Lay-offs are low by historical standards but young people may still need help finding a foothold in the labour market

03.11.2026 20

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Uk Employment

Business has a crucial role in helping the Neets to work

Saving an entire generation is a whole-systems challenge

02.11.2026 10

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Social Affairs

The inconvenient truths of Nixon’s legacy

Maga supporters would do well to ponder his economic shadow, which continues to do damage today

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Us Politics & Policy

How Putin has split the west

Three different camps have emerged within the western alliance on how to deal with Russia

02.11.2026 20

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Russian Politics

The FT View. Poland’s struggle to restore the rule of law

The battle to undo PiS’s legacy needs to be conducted within the rules

02.11.2026 20

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Poland

What caused the $6.3bn Binance hack?

Blockchains are not the problem; it is the ecosystem around them that has introduced technological vulnerabilities

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Cyber Security

AI mania can’t survive higher interest rates

The price of money is the pin that deflates market bubbles

02.11.2026 20

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Us Interest Rates

The Big Read. Why rich Ireland still feels poor

Dublin is precariously reliant on corporation taxes, with half coming from Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft

02.11.2026 20

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Irish Economy

The meaning of the midterms

This week will tell us many important things about the future of American politics

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

France and the UK require a new entente

The Suez crisis offers valuable lessons on troubled relations since the birth of the European project

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Eu Defence

The FT View. America needs a real Congress

Trump has faced little scrutiny. The midterm elections could change that

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Congress Of The United States

No amount of money can make a war zone safe for seafarers

The international community and shipping industry must act together to protect the people who keep world trade moving

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Shipping

EU leaders risk breaking their promise to help European start-ups

The bloc is addressing the funding gap for innovators but going the wrong way on harmonising rules to help them stay in Europe

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Eu Economy

The great Airbnb chore reprieve

Woe betide those who require guests to strip the bed and clean the kitchen

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Airbnb Inc

The bonkers business of tax breaks for entrepreneurs

Encouraging start-ups and scale-ups is a good idea but is not best served by Healey’s new Founders’ Relief

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Entrepreneurship

Is this the first clear evidence of AI’s impact on the labour market?

Productivity is up and employment is down in the tech sector but elsewhere the picture is muddier

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Technology Sector