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The past decade has been transformational for our finances, but the next could be more challenging 




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Wanted: bright ideas on how to tax the wealthy 

Ahead of the Budget, chancellor Sajid Javid has some tough choices to make




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Winter fuel payments: time to throw them on the fire? 

A move to donate universal benefits to charity could turn up the political heat  




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Should we keep calm and carry on investing? 

Money worries have taken on a new meaning with the market woes and the Budget next week




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Help for the self-employed won’t save everybody

The chancellor’s support package is welcome, but many self employed people are excluded 




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How are your spending habits changing under lockdown? 

Join a live discussion with our FT Money editor at 12pm and 5pm UK time on Wednesday April 8




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Ronan Farrow: ‘Reporters ultimately don’t stop’

The investigative journalist on #MeToo and the perils of taking on the powerful




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Psychologist Carol Dweck: ‘Everyone is a work in progress’

The guru of the ‘growth mindset’ on why your qualities are not set in stone




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Nicola Benedetti: ‘Classical music is like a novel, not a tweet’

The violinist on making high art popular and what #MeToo means for musicians




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Best of Lunch with the FT 2019

Whose back feels like an anatomy textbook in Braille? Who sparred with Trump? Who’s too posh for her target base? Have lunch again with Federer, Schwarzenegger and Beckham . . . 




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Alisher Usmanov: ‘I was never what you could call an oligarch’

The Russian billionaire on working with Putin, his Premier League plans and making a fortune in the 1990s




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Ken Clarke: ‘Do we carry on with crash, bang, wallop nationalism?’

The Tory grandee on Thatcher, Johnson — and how centrist complacency fuelled Brexit




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Cho Nam-joo: the writer inspiring Asia’s #MeToo movement

Her bestselling novel showed South Korea’s everyday sexism — and struck a chord around the region




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Chrystia Freeland: ‘We liberals have had a rude awakening’

Canada’s deputy PM on moving from the ‘snark’ of journalism to the ‘smarm’ of politics




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Olga Tokarczuk: why populist nostalgia will pass

The Polish novelist on confronting history and her battles with the nationalist right




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Ebola co-discoverer Peter Piot on how to respond to the coronavirus

The ‘Mick Jagger of microbes’ on a life of fighting disease — and the severity of the current crisis




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Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler: ‘Everything was chaos’

The former engineer on bullying, tech firm culture and breaking the silence




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Rachel Maddow: ‘I’m not trying to end the Trump presidency’

US liberals’ favourite TV host on polarisation, the primaries and staying sane




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Anne Wojcicki: ‘This is the way the world is going’

As chief executive of 23andMe, she holds the key to a vast genetic database. What will she do with it?




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Kiril Sokoloff: ‘There will have to be massive debt relief’

The Wall Street strategist talks about debt, lessons from losing his hearing — and his latest predictions for the world




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Moeen Ali: ‘You would play for free, honestly’

The England cricketer on finding his faith, burnout — and why he can’t wait to get back on the pitch




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Diamond sector grinds to halt as India’s lockdown bites

Restrictions in nation that processes 90% of world’s stones upend global industry 




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Australia’s Lynas warns on rare earths supply chain 

Main non-China producer says it may need public funds to weather coronavirus downturn




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Papua New Guinea threatens to seize Barrick’s Porgera gold mine

Prime minister escalates dispute over Canada-listed group’s licence




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Willett rises as Spieth learns to lose

Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta




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BBC Olympics wins medal in hype

Commentators have forsworn understatement




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The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again

A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects




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Are we seeing the strange, lingering death of Labour England?

In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions




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All work and no play? The new ‘uni’ experience

Academics and students on campus life in the era of ‘knowledge corporations’




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Why is Britain so disenchanted with its politicians?

Matthew Engel tours Middle England in search of the root of voter disillusionment




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That’s the Way it Crumbles by Matthew Engel — the conquest of English

An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British




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Summer books of 2017: new titles by FT writers

Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter




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Johanna Konta and the sporting citizens of nowhere

National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport




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The Last Wolf by Robert Winder — island stories

Geography is destiny in this historical meditation on the peculiarities of the English




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Child prodigy Tiger Woods becomes the ultimate comeback kid

The holder of this title until now would, for me, have been Muhammad Ali




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England face Ashes test after World Cup glory

Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled




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The foreign states that own Britain’s railways

Train travel in the UK now combines the worst features of capitalism and socialism




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How Britain fell back in love with the railways

A pledge to roll back the Beeching cuts has rekindled a strange national obsession




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Will I be hit by CGT rule change on my property sale?

My buyer asked to delay due to Covid-19 and now I understand I need to pay capital gains tax within 30 days of sale




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SoftBank warns of $9.6bn investment losses due to coronavirus

Pandemic puts more pressure on Masayoshi Son’s bet on beleaguered WeWork




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The end of the office? Outbreak may change work forever

Business ease in adapting to lockdowns changes attitudes to remote set-ups




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Property law: can I work from home if it is rented?

Some leases prohibit doing business — plus what to do when coronavirus halts completion of a sale




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UK shopping centre owner Intu wins breathing space from lenders

Owner of some of UK’s biggest shopping malls still faces uphill struggle




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The gift of isolation: my weekend at a writers’ retreat

Before the world went into lockdown, Rebecca Watson found herself in a very different kind of confinement




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Neumann accuses SoftBank of abuse of power over WeWork deal

Office group founder files lawsuit over largest investor’s decision to pull out of $3bn tender offer




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Revolut’s founder should take some M&A lessons from Warren Buffett

Company must not bet the bank on expansion; estate agents have nowhere to go




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López Obrador’s virus nonchalance risks deepening Mexico’s woes

President acts as though Latin America’s second-largest economy is immune to pandemic




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This is the time to waive sanctions on Venezuela

The need for an effective fight against coronavirus trumps other considerations




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Bolsonaro doubles down on denialism

Behaviour of Brazil’s ‘walking crisis’ president sparks backlash among one-time allies




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Bolsonaro sparks political feud over coronavirus lockdowns

Flashpoint between Brazil’s populist leader and political establishment over response to virus