UK must drop ‘post-imperial delusions’ over trade, warns Douglas Alexander
The UK’s new trade minister Douglas Alexander has vowed to put Europe back at the heart of Britain’s commercial policy, ...
Letter: Why universal basic income is an attractive proposition
From Mariano Torras, Professor of Economics, Chair, Department of Finance and Economics, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, US ...
Letter: Harris, a San Francisco radical? That’s fine by me
In The Big Read (July 27) you quote Donald Trump describing Kamala Harris as “a San Francisco radical”. Having been in the city since 1979 I fail to fathom the implied negative connotation. My ...
Letter: Wealth inequality is a more pernicious part of the story
One of the key insights in Thomas Piketty’s influential book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is that as wealth accumulates over time and passes between generations, the effects of wealth ...
Letter: Starmer’s ‘reset’ must befit UK’s extraordinary history
Having lived, worked, loved and shed a few tears in the UK for 36 years, and holding the place and its people close to my heart, I can only hope that its “reset”, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ...
Letter: Low Victorian cunning?
Alexandra Goss’s piece on high ceilings (“High fidelity”, House & Home, July 27) made me reconsider our home. We live in a modest house — at least by the standards of the dwellings generally featured ...
Letter: Reason British politics retains its moderate tone
Simon Kuper credits the monarchical principle for the moderate undertone of British politics, compared to the US and France (Spectrum, July 27). This is spot on. Constitutional monarchies provide a ...
Letter: Pet food carbon paw print
In 2017, Gregory Okin, a UCLA professor, made a splash when pointing out if America’s 163mn Fidos and Felixes comprised a separate country, their fluffy nation would rank fifth in global meat ...
Letter: This has been dogging me
I understand and applaud the fact that in his magazine column, Robert Shrimsley is very circumspect about his family — the most we get is a reference to “the spawn” ( Magazine, FT Weekend, July 27).
Big Tech groups say their $100bn AI spending spree is just beginning
Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta all revealed massive increases in spending in the first six months of 2024 — totalling $106bn — in their latest quarterly earnings reports, as their leaders ...
Transcript: Is Labour facing a summer of unrest?
On the menu for today’s episode: can Keir Starmer grip the violent protests, or are we facing a summer of unrest? Plus, is it a case of down with the old, up with the young? Labour peers are willing ...
US economy cools more than expected in July with 114,000 jobs added
The US labour market cooled more than expected in July, adding 114,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose, prompting traders ...