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 ...

China, as always, plays a long game. The longer-run solution to the objective of providing renminbi to other countries for trade and settlement is foreign direct investment — that is, swapping ...

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

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

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 ...

Much has been said about UK spinouts being at risk of being swallowed up by conglomerates (“UK biotech keeps selling itself to America”, Report, January 28) but it’s no surprise that growing companies ...

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 ...

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

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

The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that a student loan borrower with an outstanding loan of £50,000 needs to earn more than £63,000 to see their loan balance start to come down, not £66,000 as ...

UK universities have been told by the government to step up their defences against intimidation and censorship from China and other states, as the security services launch an advisory scheme for ...

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 ...