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“Without fear and without favour”: Since 1888, this newspaper has argued for free markets, free trade, and liberal democracy. These commitments are renewed daily by the editorial board, which offers opinion and analysis on behalf of the FT.
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    The Brics lose their clout

    The bloc of heavyweight emerging markets has grown bigger but less coherent

    Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, speaks at the Brics summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    The Hong Kong stock market’s tentative revival

    City’s standing as a global financial hub still faces several hurdles

    Evening view of Hong Kong skyscrapers
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    BCG gets caught up in a scandal in Gaza

    The episode raises serious questions over processes at the global consulting firm

    A general view of damaged buildings and ruins in northern Gaza
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    It’s a bad time to be a graduate

    AI is only one of the many pressures facing university leavers

    Students look on a wait for the start of the Commencement Ceremony at Columbia University
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    The age of fiscal excess

    The US isn’t the only nation showing a troubling lack of discipline

    Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, seated, shakes hand with fellow party member Rudy Yakym after passing the budget bill. It appears as though today’s leaders are hoping whoever follows them will do the hard work on reducing public debt
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    Labour’s squandered promise of stability

    The prime minister has failed to provide political cover for his chancellor

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves crying as Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    Give commerce a chance in eastern DR Congo

    Truce with Rwanda is a test case for Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy

    President Donald Trump delivers remarks as he meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Rwanda Olivier Nduhungirehe and the Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner in the Oval Office
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    The editorial board
    A new front in Trump’s war on the global economy

    Exemptions granted to the US on taxation make cross-border business even harder

    The leaders of Japan, Italy, France, Canada, the US, the UK and Germany during the G7 summit in Alberta
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    An inauspicious anniversary for Labour

    Prime minister’s U-turn on welfare reform has badly dented his authority with MPs

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    The US Federal Reserve’s Trump problem

    The president is undermining his own desire for lower interest rates

    Fed chair Jay Powell. For now, keeping rates on hold feels like the safest option given all the uncertainty
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    The eternal dilemma of how to tax the super-rich

    It is becoming harder to keep wealthy nomads and ordinary voters happy

  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Britain’s industrial strategy will not guarantee growth

    Labour must focus its efforts on improving the business environment

    The head of a 155mm artillery shell casing is turned during its manufacturing process at the BAE Systems factory in Washington
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    A fragile truce in the Middle East

    Trump should champion diplomatic efforts if he wants peace to endure

    Smoke rises in Tehran amid the third day of Israel’s waves of strikes against Iran
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    A test for global public health

    The decline in funding for vaccinations poses a worldwide threat

    A nurse administers a malaria vaccine to an infant at a health centre in Datcheka, Cameroon
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    A road map to rebalance the Nato alliance

    Higher European spending may please Trump but will not be enough to rebuild confidence

    Flags of the Alliance members at NATO headquarters in Brussels
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s step into the dark

    America’s gamble in Iran makes the world a more dangerous place

    US President Donald Trump at the White House announces the strikes on Iran
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Investors are shaken, but not yet stirred

    Amid global turmoil, markets are focused on the hit to economic fundamentals

    View of Iranian flags in Tehran and flames in the distance from the Israeli strike on the Sharan Oil depot
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Why Vietnam should revamp its economic model

    Donald Trump’s trade shock is a wake-up call for faster reform

    Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s fateful choice on Iran

    The US president may be dragged into another regime change folly in the Middle East

    A plume of heavy smoke and fire rise over an oil refinery in southern Tehran
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Labour’s miscalculation on taxing non-doms

    The government must reverse an exodus of the wealthy that will harm the UK economy

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    How to cut Britain’s sky-high electricity prices

    The UK needs to ensure natural gas is less dominant in setting costs

    The gas fired Grain power station
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    Remittance crackdown is a tax on the poor

    Planned US levy is part of a bigger squeeze on capital flows to poor countries

    Western Union sign sitting atop the roof of the business in Oklahoma
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    The war that should have been avoided

    Only Trump has leverage with both Netanyahu and Tehran. He must use it

    A person reacts as residential buildings in Nobonyad Square are shown following Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran.
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    The editorial board
    It is time to reform the ECHR

    Without compromising its values, the rights treaty’s application needs updating

    European Court of Human Rights
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    UK spending review
    Rachel Reeves opens the cheque book

    The UK government must now show it can turn investment into growth

    Rachel Reeves
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