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Hollywood recasts tech tycoons as bad billionaires

This new twist may portend a backlash against wealth creation in America

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Technology Sector

Trump’s bid to make America cheap again has failed

Voters are increasingly linking rising energy prices to the administration’s policies

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Us Economy

The FT View. Trump’s losing battle with green energy

The Iran war and AI boom are strengthening the case for clean power, despite the president’s efforts to curb it

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Renewable Energy

The Big Read. The world’s fastest-growing cities are not where you think

The continent’s urban centres are set to expand by 19mn people annually, or by nearly two Londons a year. But urbanisation is not following a...

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African Economy

The US needs a social compact on data centres

Building them at home would allow policymakers to advance the interests of American companies and workers

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Artificial Intelligence

Europe must liberate Belgium from its huge Russian assets risk

What happens if the US tries to take control of the hundreds of billions blocked in Euroclear?

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European Banks

The Trump administration has entered its utter shambles era

A disastrous five-day stint for the president’s new press secretary is just the latest sign of chaos in the White House

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Donald Trump

The Big Read. The monster El Niño putting AI to the test

The technology is being used to anticipate everything from forest fires to futures contracts. Some fear that’s a mistake

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Extreme Weather

Obituary. Margaret Hamilton, software engineer, 1936-2026

Trailblazing computer scientist whose software saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

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Margaret Hamilton

The financial double life of barristers

It is wrong to assume that legal professionals have no money worries

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Law

The National Trust is breaking Rules

The only thing the restaurant has in common with the kind of houses in which they shoot ‘Antiques Roadshow’ is that it’s full of old stuff

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Restaurants

Why have screens replaced socialising?

The economics of why we increasingly avoid the company of both other humans and books

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Uk Society

The FT View. Can consultants reinvent themselves once again?

As AI becomes more capable, human advisers must find new ways to prove their worth

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Accounting & Consulting Services

Welfare reform is possible: we did it before, we can do it again

All sides agree that the costs are unsustainable and we can’t continue to write people off

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Uk Welfare Reform

Trump has failed to listen to voters on inflation

People elect presidents to fix problems, not to diagnose their causes

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Us Inflation

The Big Read. Italy’s brewing problems with scale

It can be difficult to run companies around the Sunday lunch table

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European Companies

US business leaders are waking up to the perils of plutopopulism

Companies wanted a president who would cut taxes and rules, they got one who has blown holes in free trade and global alliances

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Global Trade

The secret fight around financial flows

Quicker responses to trade challenges mean companies can free up capital

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Supply Chains

Hold philanthropists accountable when their projects fail

Despite disappointing results, an African agricultural initiative funded by prominent foundations is being recapitalised

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Philanthropy

What happens when AI can read our minds?

Brain-computer interfaces are already being used to treat Parkinson’s disease and allow paralysed patients to operate computers

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Artificial Intelligence

The housing plan for London is no plan at all

Without radical changes, the GLA’s building targets are a fantasy — with dire consequences

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Uk Economy

How the Greens lost their party to the hard left

The drift from climate politics towards becoming a portmanteau party of the left heralds a nastier, less consensual era

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Green Party Uk

The Big Read. Why a drug gang appointed a director for corporate governance

Fear of armed groups has fuelled the rise of Latin America’s radical right

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Organised Crime

London’s gold market enjoys the Trump effect

The City’s dominance of physical trading in the metal is being reinforced by global instability

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Gold

Is the K-shaped economy really more of an E?

America remains a very unequal place, but on many metrics inequality is not increasing

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Us Inequality

The aesthetics of quantum computing

Data centres show that tech is not usually this clever about design

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Quantum Technologies

Healey’s Budget is a moment he must not miss

Avoiding bold choices this time would just mean postponing political and economic pain

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Uk Autumn Budget 2026

The FT View. Unshackle workers from non-compete clauses

The restrictions on labour mobility hold back Britain’s growth and innovation

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Uk Economy

This is an era of Davids, not Goliaths

Why smaller powers are thwarting bigger ones

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Geopolitics

The Big Read. Pakistan’s demographic time bomb

Young people are already angry about the country’s lack of jobs, and their numbers are growing rapidly

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Pakistani Politics

How I used AI to become a chess grandmaster at 16

Ignore the doomsayers, this technology has transformed the game for the better and it can do the same for education

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Artificial Intelligence

The global economy and the art of living dangerously

It would be nice to think that the world will become less shock-prone, but it probably won’t

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Global Economic Growth

How not to revive Europe’s auto industry

The electric vehicle market shows how legacy EU companies continue to fail when it comes to countering Chinese competition

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Eu Trade

Why we need a proper conversation about death

Philanthropy needs to step up to meet the needs that a National Care Service never will

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Uk Social Care

The Big Read. The elections that could remake Europe

In the space of 12 months, four of the five biggest EU member states will go to the ballot box. The bloc may never be the same

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Populism In Europe

HR doesn’t need to be the CIA

Fraudulent use of AI in the jobs process is forcing the warm and fuzzy realms of the former to work with the suspicious minds of the latter

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Employment

Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular

No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence

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Us Foreign Policy

The FT View. Trump’s Russian diesel gambit is cynical and won’t work

The US president risks harming Ukraine to curb prices driven up by his own war

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War In Ukraine

The diesel crisis is testing the limits of globalisation

Seemingly rational choices by individual states will weaken collective energy security and accelerate fragmentation

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Energy Sector

It’s time for the UK to reward whistleblowers financially

Incentivising insiders to come forward will transform how we tackle fraud

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Whistleblowing

Why AI won’t kill the creative class

Used right, the technology can unleash human creativity rather than destroy it

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Artificial Intelligence

A tale of two possums

In Australia the marsupials are treated with reverence, while in New Zealand they are being turned into ponchos

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Retail & Consumer Industry

Britain, Brexit and the cat-flap option

The political, strategic and economic momentum for a reversal of Brexit is growing

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Uk Politics

There is a smarter way to tax the rich

Increasing US corporate tax raises government revenues without harming the tax base

12.10.2026 20

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Us Tax

The Big Read. Trump’s midterm peril

Losing the Republican majority in the chamber would be bruising for the president. A vote in rural Iowa may determine his fate

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Us Midterm Elections 2026

How to pay for social care

Automatic enrolment worked for pensions — a similar scheme could pool the risk of heavy costs from illness and infirmity in later life

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Uk Social Care

Foreign policy matters — and the Democrats need one

Trump’s approach to the world has left Republicans floundering as the midterms approach. Liberals should plan their own strategy now

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Us Foreign Policy

The FT View. The collective global duty to safeguard time

World powers need to agree on standardisation crucial for infrastructure and space travel

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Science

Why are our children not flourishing at school?

AI is detonating the tired system of factory education that has predominated since the last century

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Uk Schools

The problem with your AI therapist

Millions are turning to chatbots for help with mental health but a technology that can’t go beyond words won’t heal them

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Mental Health