Sunday’s election to the lower house of parliament follows the shortest campaign in the postwar period. It is being fought in ...

Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on ...

Kevin Warsh’s invocation of Alan Greenspan’s productivity wager (“Fed nominee channels former chair Greenspan with AI ...

Set up as a fully funded pension scheme in 1922, like all final salary schemes, it has had its vicissitudes, notably after ...

Hearing politicians react to the revelations about Peter Mandelson, what comes to mind is the film Casablanca and the feigned ...

Re Raj Parkash’s letter “What those early blooming daffodils really tell us” (February 5), in Cornwall, where daffodils are ...

Sir Keir Starmer is battling to save his premiership after the dramatic resignation on Sunday of his most trusted aide Morgan ...

We start in Japan, where Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide in a snap general election, securing her governing Liberal ...

Iran’s security forces have arrested at least four senior reformist politicians on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Islamic system, increasing tensions just weeks after the country’s deadliest ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has described the student loan system as “fair and reasonable”. For many young people, it is neither. It represents a broken social contract (“Britain’s inequitable student ...

You report that Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto focuses on free school meals and health checks (“Under Prabowo, Indonesia is veering off course”, FT View, February 4). You note that this comes ...

Former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos in his Lunch with the FT (Life & Arts, January 17) presents a view of Colombia’s recent history that deserves careful challenge. It is repeatedly ...