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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.
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    An unwelcome surge of rightwing populism in Britain

    Rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK threatens the Labour-Conservative duopoly

    Nigel Farage celebrates his party’s Runcorn and Helsby by-election victory
  • Thursday, 1 May, 2025
    The editorial board
    A dangerous stand-off between India and Pakistan

    Shooting of tourists in Kashmir could reignite conflict across a key geopolitical faultline

    Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol in Srinagar
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    The Iberian blackout is a wake-up call

    Governments must invest in electricity resilience alongside the green transition

    A station employee speaks into a megaphone at Santa railway station in Barcelona
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    The improbable triumph of Canada’s Mark Carney

    The prime minister owes his job to Donald Trump. Now he must take him on

    Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney dances during an event at the Liberal Party election night headquarters
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s 100 days of chaos

    The real battle to save the American republic may have just begun

    US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order
  • Sunday, 27 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Musk needs to become a more normal CEO

    And Tesla should become a more normal company

    Elon Musk
  • Friday, 25 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    How to pass unpopular reforms

    The low-growth, high-debt bind requires bold but difficult fixes

    Fuel Subsidy protests in Nigeria
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s shameful Crimea ultimatum to Ukraine

    Washington is trying to force on Kyiv a peace deal on Russia’s terms

    An explosion of a ballistic missile lights up the sky over Kyiv during a Russian missile and drone strike
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump and the art of the retreat

    Reputational damage to the Fed and US assets will not be easily reversed

    President Donald Trump flanked by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent to his right and commerce secretary Howard Lutnick to his left
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Europe’s opportunity amid Trump’s chaos

    The EU must move swiftly on growth reforms to capitalise on investors’ rising interest

    Euronext trading exchange
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    The legacy of a compassionate reformist pope

    Francis was an inspiring moderniser though his changes fell short of supporters’ hopes

  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Allies start to question the US nuclear umbrella

    Lack of coherence in Trump’s policies raises risks of proliferation

    A missile firing from HMS Vigilant
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Harvard’s bold stand against Trump’s bullying

    University’s readiness to fight for academic freedoms is an example to others

    Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Asia’s straining middle class

    For sustained income growth, policymakers must bolster economic resilience

    A worker arranges rolls of thread for a weaving loom at the Trisula Textile Industries factory in Cimahi, West Java
  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    The UK government needs a proper plan for steel

    The future is not in the Scunthorpe blast furnaces that ministers have rescued

    The British Steel Scunthorpe Site
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    The narrow window for a nuclear deal with Iran

    Trump team should accept that both Washington and Tehran need to make compromises

    Young women walk past a dove of peace mural in Tehran
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump should offer Panama more than threats

    Washington has extracted concessions, but now needs to give something back

    Cargo containers sit stacked as cranes load and unload containers from cargo ships at the Panama Canal’s Balboa port
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    What China should do next

    To weather Trump’s global storm, Beijing’s economic strategy must evolve

    Chinese President Xi Jinping
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Donald Trump bends to the power of the markets

    But trade war with China and tariffs on most US imports still risk great harm

    US President Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    How Britain misuses its fiscal watchdog

    Limited spending buffers and poor support undermine the OBR

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s self-defeating tariffs on south-east Asia

    Forced to choose between the US and China, the likes of Vietnam may opt for Beijing

    Vietnamese workers sew fabric at a factory in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    A market rout made in the White House

    Those with the president’s ear must urge him to change course on tariffs

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    A dark hour for American science

    Other countries have a chance to attract US talent driven out by Trump’s policies

    Employees work in a lab focused on cancer vaccine research at the Moderna headquarters in Cambridge
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    Trump’s destruction of global alliances

    America’s tariff onslaught will drive upheaval well beyond trade

    President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    The editorial board
    America’s astonishing act of self-harm

    Trump’s tariffs will upend the global economic order and tarnish US prosperity

    US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order from a desk in the Rose Garden
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