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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

An editing error resulted in an Opinion column on January 23 stating that the chal­lenge facing UK uni­versit­ies had been exacerbated by the current gov­ern­ment’s indus­trial strategy ...

Mark Wahlberg undertakes a hairy journey in a film from a leading light of Donald Trump’s new Hollywood task force ...

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Decoding Trumponomics’ Katie Martin He’s back and he’s busy.

Boeing has said it expects a fourth-quarter loss and is taking $2.8bn in charges stemming from a six-week-long strike, higher costs in its defence business and cuts to its workforce. The plane maker ...