Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli ...

An influential think-tank has urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to break one of Labour’s key manifesto pledges by raising income tax in her November Budget, while at the same time ...

Sir Keir Starmer is pressing ahead with the introduction of digital IDs, with an announcement expected as early as his party conference this month, as the British prime minister tries to show he has a ...

Meta, which adopted the simple camera idea with its first smart glasses four years ago, is taking things further. It had already brought artificial intelligence to the frames, in the form of a ...

Switzerland’s conservative central bank has quietly become one of the world’s biggest tech investors, amassing a stock portfolio that is equivalent in value to nearly a fifth of the national economy’s ...

Winston Weinberg’s company is making lawyers ‘a lot more productive’, but critics say it offers little more than ChatGPT ...

Nato fighter jets have shot down Russian drones over Polish airspace for the first time, after what Warsaw described as an “unprecedented violation” of its territory that prompted the alliance to hold ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the mid-2010s, a spate of start-ups hoping to transform the laborious process of finding new drugs launched ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Democrats in Washington have published a birthday message that Donald Trump allegedly sent Jeffrey Epstein more than ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US has informed countries in Europe that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from ...

The British housing market is, by common consent, among the most dysfunctional in the developed world. Sky-high house prices, regressive property taxes, obstacles to productivity growth, economic and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China and Russia have signed an agreement to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, a huge gas project that ...