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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2m
Tens of thousands of Italian drivers have purchased Polish number plates for their cars and motorbikes in an elaborate scheme to evade road taxes and pay lower insurance premiums. ft.trib.al/pQ3FE3M
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h
Investors look to shelter portfolios from rising AI concentration risks ft.trib.al/0zCz27q
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Investors look to shelter portfolios from rising AI concentration risks
Fund managers see hedge funds and emerging markets assets as bulwarks against sudden shift in sentiment on artificial intelligence
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h
The US is looking more like Italy ft.trib.al/V5GVvf0 | opinion
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The US is looking more like Italy
America is not so exceptional any more — and the New World is becoming more like the Old
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2h
EU countries shoot themselves in the foot when they veto sanctions ft.trib.al/3FKmceB | opinion
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EU countries shoot themselves in the foot when they veto sanctions
A recent move by France makes talk of ‘strategic autonomy’ look like hot air
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h
Opinion: London is tiring, so we complain about being tired, and about being tired of being tired. ft.trib.al/MaINQoV
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h
What can we learn from the office AI superusers? ft.trib.al/NGHozuB
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What can we learn from the office AI superusers?
Leaders who have gone all-in on new tech tools describe how they are reimagining their working lives
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h
BT weighs improved TalkTalk offer after initial approach rejected ft.trib.al/cHhpF9m
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BT weighs improved TalkTalk offer after initial approach rejected
Telecoms group seeks deal within days for debt-laden broadband provider
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h
In defence of big business ft.trib.al/QYoxqiK
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In defence of big business
Despite the lionisation of small companies, prosperity hinges on a handful of large firms
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h
Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks ft.trib.al/afQxSGx
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Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 3h
Everybody loves small businesses. But prosperity hinges on the big ones. My latest for @financialtimes.com. In defence of big business: as.ft.com/r/6b18cb3d-3...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h
Australian authorities probe Flydubai attacker’s links to the country ft.trib.al/C85QrUI
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Australian authorities probe Flydubai attacker’s links to the country
Recriminations among various governments have escalated after the attempted hijacking of a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h
Britain’s Budget needs to tame spending and boost growth ft.trib.al/4r9j9RU
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Britain’s Budget needs to tame spending and boost growth
Chancellor Healey can still make a low-key fiscal event a constructive one
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h
With surrogacy illegal in China, an industry of agencies, consultants and fertility clinics has emerged to connect clients with women overseas willing to carry their children. ft.trib.al/R9ulxiR
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4h
Why the IPO market is booming and busting ft.trib.al/1DejWPo
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Why the IPO market is booming and busting
Flotations have stalled and returns from new listings have been weak
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5h
How 60,000 Polish number plates exposed Italy’s tax allergy ft.trib.al/FZ0svPz
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How 60,000 Polish number plates exposed Italy’s tax allergy
Giorgia Meloni is moving to cut unpopular road levies that have spawned evasion schemes using cars registered in Poland
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5h
Bosnia elections pit EU hopes against Russian influence ft.trib.al/2Ed9pd0
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Bosnia elections pit EU hopes against Russian influence
Serbian nationalists find ready support from Moscow and a US eager for deals
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h
Germany’s Merz arrives in Kyiv to show support for Ukraine ft.trib.al/fH1D57P
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Germany’s Merz arrives in Kyiv to show support for Ukraine
Trip comes as Russia expands its air war against Ukraine ahead of winter and escalates ‘hybrid’ attacks on Europe
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h
In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’: ft.trib.al/qWVhqpK
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Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com · 7h
Trouble in India’s ‘City of Dawn’. Founded as a utopian experiment in the 1960s, Auroville is now engulfed in a bitter political struggle over its future. My latest for the @ftweekend.com magazine | as.ft.com/r/92b7590e-5...
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Trouble in Auroville, India’s ‘City of Dawn’
Founded as a utopian experiment in the 1960s, the township is now engulfed in a bitter political struggle over its future
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h
Wall Street’s IPO fervour cools on tepid demand and valuation worries ft.trib.al/Pz6ITeT
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Wall Street’s IPO fervour cools on tepid demand and valuation worries
Several listings have been paused in recent weeks as delay in Anthropic’s public debut sends a chill through markets
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8h
Dear all: how bosses should talk to the troops ft.trib.al/6DhSEpH | opinion
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Dear all: how bosses should talk to the troops
And what they should always try to avoid
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9h
Today’s youth would like to give back modernity, thank you very much ft.trib.al/tSCyOIj | opinion
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Today’s youth would like to give back modernity, thank you very much
Has any previous generation been so down on the present?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9h
Andy Burnham and the art of corporate pitch-rolling ft.trib.al/8C8yMbb | opinion
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Andy Burnham and the art of corporate pitch-rolling
The UK prime minister has many grand plans, but most won’t kick in until 2030 or even later
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h
China closes hundreds of banks to bolster financial system ft.trib.al/SnZKaPA
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China closes hundreds of banks to bolster financial system
More than 670 lenders, a record, shut down last year as Fitch says smaller players remain sector’s weakest part
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15h
Tories vow to scrap £100,000 ‘tax trap’ for UK’s higher earners ft.trib.al/T8qGLRA
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Tories vow to scrap £100,000 ‘tax trap’ for UK’s higher earners
Badenoch says current threshold, introduced by previous Conservative government, punishes parents for working more
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h
The town where 94% voted for Lula — and some now waver ft.trib.al/t6DDMVO
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The town where 94% voted for Lula — and some now waver
Despite his hallowed status, some voters are growing disaffected with Brazil’s president in Guaribas, the cradle of his flagship Bolsa Família welfare programme
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h
'There are doubtless multiple forms of passive aggression where you don’t quite tell people to remove their footwear but behave sufficiently boorishly to make clear to all but the most inattentive visitor that this is a shoeless household' ft.trib.al/Wt5QqNU
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
There are many different ways to measure how well a country is doing.  Read ‘Dear England’ playwright James Graham's column on writing a drama about the economist who saw that wellbeing could not be captured by an index: ft.trib.al/ecrhwAa
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Temu’s UK sales more than double to $171mn ft.trib.al/eXNNiD7
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Temu’s UK sales more than double to $171mn
Chinese ecommerce company has been exploiting tax loophole that exempts small parcels from customs duty
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Tempted to go freelance? Here’s six financial tips for success ft.trib.al/X3Z5gjc | opinion
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Tempted to go freelance? Here’s six financial tips for success
Becoming your own boss offers more flexibility, but you have to know your numbers
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
When £35 New Zealand Chardonnay meets £1,000 white burgundy ft.trib.al/HV1GHy0 | opinion
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When £35 New Zealand Chardonnay meets £1,000 white burgundy
Jancis Robinson joins a formidable line-up of tasters to put New Zealand wines alongside some top bottles from Burgundy — with results that may surprise you
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
‘An awful lot better than a restaurant here needs to be’ — Jay Rayner reviews Lardon, Gloucestershire ft.trib.al/PPuJh54 | opinion
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‘An awful lot better than a restaurant here needs to be’ — Jay Rayner reviews Lardon, Gloucestershire
Amid the padel courts and wellness spaces of a Cotswolds lifestyle hub, a new venue serves excellent southern European cooking, from salt cod croquettes to wood-fired pork belly
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Can you survive a home renovation with your relationship intact? ft.trib.al/0bWrnEf | opinion
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Can you survive a home renovation with your relationship intact?
Nearly one in five couples says a home improvement project pushed them to the brink of splitting up — or ended the relationship entirely
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Who let the dogs out? Please put them back ft.trib.al/RVeQhX3 | opinion
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Who let the dogs out? Please put them back
Nowhere is safe from the tide of Shih Tzus and spaniels — not restaurants, offices or even cinemas
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Stop messing with our favourite TV shows ft.trib.al/cCZ2ifu | opinion
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Stop messing with our favourite TV shows
What the audience wants is the same thing every week, but different
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
The coming futures market in AI compute ft.trib.al/8g4AikH | opinion
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The coming futures market in AI compute
Big swings in the price of chip rentals are spurring the creation of a trading opportunity
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Dethroning FICO won’t much help US homeowners ft.trib.al/faBZFBr | opinion
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Dethroning FICO won’t much help US homeowners
Housing tsar Bill Pulte wants more competition among consumer credit agencies, but borrowers may just seek the most lenient
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
China launches anti-dumping probe into European chemical exports ft.trib.al/0yprtha
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China launches anti-dumping probe into European chemical exports
Latest tit-for-tat move follows three similar investigations launched by the EU last week
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
What’s driving the global bond sell-off? ft.trib.al/W4wZg3T | opinion
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What’s driving the global bond sell-off?
Looking at the most cited factors reveals a mixed picture
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
The ever-shrinking case for expanding Heathrow ft.trib.al/TWfNRzx | opinion
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The ever-shrinking case for expanding Heathrow
Need for giant airport hubs is being challenged by rise of long-range narrow-body planes that go to places their bigger predecessors couldn’t
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Co-pilot used axe to carry out ‘terrorist act’ on Flydubai flight ft.trib.al/Sndjzv7
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Co-pilot used axe to carry out ‘terrorist act’ on Flydubai flight
Flight 1073 was heading to Tel Aviv when the attack was launched in the cockpit
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
Which power will ultimately prevail? As in the 19th-century struggle between the UK and Russia, the answer may depend on forces beyond either’s control, says Rana Foroohar: ft.trib.al/ffLIz1Z
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
China, America and the new Great Game ft.trib.al/2h3b9Fu
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China, America and the new Great Game
Which power will prevail? As in the 19th-century struggle between the UK and Russia, the answer may depend on forces beyond either’s control
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/10/2026
The Conservative leader on wading into culture wars, why the Tories have been too ‘complacent’ about business — and ruling out a rightwing coalition with Reform: ft.trib.al/OBKRhcE
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Two Iranian small-boat migrants charged with plotting attack on Jewish targets in Manchester ft.trib.al/GCU0tPd
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Two Iranian small-boat migrants charged with plotting attack on Jewish targets in Manchester
UK’s Counter Terrorism Policing said Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi may have been directed from Iran
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Black voters rally against redrawn electoral maps ft.trib.al/fFrmSIj
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Black voters rally against redrawn electoral maps
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
US justice department will not reopen criminal probe of Fed’s Jay Powell ft.trib.al/8clTUlA
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US justice department will not reopen criminal probe of Fed’s Jay Powell
US attorney-general Todd Blanche says not having ‘any oversight’ of the central bank’s $2.5bn renovation project ‘isn’t necessarily a crime’
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Healey set to delay difficult choices with ‘breathing space’ UK Budget ft.trib.al/0VVwoIn
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Healey set to delay difficult choices with ‘breathing space’ UK Budget
Chancellor expected to focus statement on targeted help for households and businesses rather than tax rises on the scale of recent budgets
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
The US Department of Justice will not reopen its criminal probe of Jay Powell over the Federal Reserve’s $2.5bn renovation project, after an investigation by the central bank’s watchdog cleared the former chair of criminal wrongdoing. ft.trib.al/X3hfP3B
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Arctic sea routes boom as Gulf war and global warming divert shipping ft.trib.al/8YIYQ97
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Arctic sea routes boom as Gulf war and global warming divert shipping
Transits via Northern Sea Route quadruple as melting ice makes journey more passable and vessels avoid the Middle East
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