From Annette Idler, Associate Professor in Global Security, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK ...

UK consumer confidence fell sharply in January to the lowest level in more than a year as a spike in government borrowing costs and warnings of job cuts took a toll on economic sentiment.

Chronological age is certainly not a good yardstick for defining “old age”, and besides you don’t receive the state pension because you are “old”. Rather you are entitled to it because you have made ...

Every day there are around 100,000 international flights, each delivering a well-mixed volume of human excreta from up to 400 random (if not representative) people from every country in the world; the ...

Trump pardons January 6 rioters on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

That same month, the world also lost another great social scientist, the Dutch sociologist Ruut Veenhoven, founder of the World Database of Happiness. When I interviewed Veenhoven a few years ago, he ...

London must rapidly understand that it is not feasible for the exchequer to find 10-year money priced at 4.5 to 5 per cent yields. Time to read the runes and thank the markets for holding up their ...

The frustration of the Financial Conduct Authority at being asked by the government to support growth, without being provided with a clear articulation of what levels of customer harm or risk are ...

The writer, cook and Chinese-food champion gets ready to greet the Year of the Snake. Plus, FT correspondents reveal how their cities will mark the occasion ...