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Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has been dealt a stinging blow in elections in Buenos Aires, the country’s largest province, as voters questioned his reform programme and a corruption ...
The “echoes” to which Brian James Gross from Austin, Texas alludes — between the autocratic tendencies of Donald Trump and those of Louis XIV of France ( Letters, September 2) — are hardly new. After ...
As a junior banker, I was taught that, no matter what fancy models and Nobel Prize-winning formulas say, the true value of something is how much someone else will pay for it. Is this not just a sign ...
By framing concessions as a necessary “poison” to protect Iran’s sovereignty, Khamenei might navigate internal dissent and external sanctions, balancing ideology with pragmatism to avert war and ...
Regarding William Hanson’s piece in the House & Home supplement “Let’s repatriate the British table setting” ( FT Weekend, August 16), are we going to pretend that “proper manners” and etiquette isn’t ...
Aside from reporting the Reform UK party’s views on local authority final salary pension schemes, your article (“Reform calls for cut to local government pension scheme fees”, Report, September 2) ...
“While falling somewhat short of the gravity of the decision to marry,” Swensen noted, “funding a private equity firm represents a long-term commitment.” This is the paradox of the Ivy League’s wealth ...
Tottenham Hotspur said that the English football club is not for sale and that its majority shareholder Enic had turned down takeover interest from two parties, including dealmaker Amanda Staveley.
But stability without democracy is an illusion. Societies that lack functioning institutions are fragile, not resilient. Instead of long-term security, stabilocracy has produced chronic insecurity: a ...
Gideon Rachman is correct in writing that “Trump thrives on sycophancy” ( Opinion, September 2). But frankly, Donald Trump’s divisive personality and style obscure what could be the greatest challenge ...
Calculate the approximate debt service bill if the UK’s debt-to-GDP ratio increased to 100 per cent with a debt service requirement of 6 per cent ...
Britain’s defence ministry will pledge to channel £250mn into spending to rejuvenate the UK local economy as part of a new “defence industrial strategy” to be released on Monday.