• April 20 2025
  Jemima Kelly

  It’s the hope that saves you

  Far from being foolish or self-indulgent, it should be considered a virtue

  
• April 19 2025
  Alex von Tunzelmann

  Are you AI, or simply a grammar pedant?

  Use of em dashes is being taken as a tell-tale sign of machine-generated writing

  
• April 19 2025
  Camilla Cavendish

  It would be so much easier if we said what we thought

  Non-Brits can find it hard to interpret the ‘polite-isms’ that conceal annoyance

  
• April 14 2025
  Rosie Jones

  Rosie Jones: ‘I was a disabled person who didn’t know the meaning of ableism’

  At 21 and fresh out of university, I was grateful to have a job. Even now, discrimination of people with disabilities remains

  
• April 11 2025
  Financial Conduct Authority UK

  FCA probes banks on bereavement and power of attorney policies

  Watchdog review highlights inability to access funds to pay essential bills

  
• April 11 2025
  Law

  Creditors struggle to recover unpaid debts in England and Wales

  Funding pressures have led to ‘slow and ineffective’ enforcement of court orders, Civil Justice Council says

  
• April 7 2025
  FT WealthCharles Spencer

  Country houses turn to attic sales to pay tax bills and repair the roof

  Holkham Hall’s recent auction is the latest in a long tradition of offering aristocratic taste at affordable prices

  
• April 6 2025
  Pilita Clark

  The weird state of April fooling

  An abundance of timidity in a volatile world means Fool’s gold is losing its shine

  
• April 5 2025
  Miranda Green

  Your call is important to us . . . please hold

  The 1.52bn hours a year Britons spend on personal admin are both enraging and hitting our productivity

  
• April 4 2025
  UK anti-abortion activist convicted in case that drew US attention

  Livia Tossici-Bolt ordered to pay £20,000 in costs and given a conditional discharge

  
• April 2 2025
  UK crime

  Fabric of UK at risk of ‘unravelling’ due to street crime, says attorney-general

  Unpunished offences one of country’s biggest law and order challenges, warns Lord Richard Hermer

  
• March 29 2025
  Ella Risbridger

  Paddington Bear represents the Britain we like to think we are

  Small and nice, the character forms part of our national myth

  
• March 29 2025
  Camilla Cavendish

  Boys and young men are in crisis — but it’s adults who need educating

  The real problem is one that hand-wringing over ‘toxic masculinity’ won’t solve

  
• March 28 2025
  UK Government

  Sentencing Council rejects calls to abandon ‘two-tier’ justice guidelines

  Government ‘disappointed’ after body stands firm on pre-sentence reports for offenders from certain backgrounds

  
• March 28 2025
  FT MagazineMiranda Green

  Ask Green: Where do you go when you’re lonely?

  Sainsbury’s cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?

  
• March 25 2025
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain — lessons from a radical city

  Sam Wetherell’s provocative history explores a postwar struggle against obsolescence and its relevance for the country’s urban future

  
• March 21 2025
  Camilla Cavendish

  The non-dom brain drain is starting to hit the UK

  At a time of political turmoil elsewhere, Britain should be offering stability

  
• March 15 2025
  Edwin Heathcote

  Who is Manchester United’s new stadium for?

  Norman Foster’s redesign of Old Trafford brings to the fore a long-standing uneasiness about the monetisation of football

  
• March 12 2025
  Health

  First NHS vape clinic treating addicts as young as 11

  Pilot scheme could be rolled out across England to help tackle growing nicotine problem affecting adolescents

  
• March 9 2025
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  How to cut Britain’s rising welfare bill

  Reforms rather than quick fixes will save more money in the long term

  
• March 7 2025
  Just Stop Oil activists’ sentences reduced in Court of Appeal

  Co-founder of climate protest group has five-year jail term cut by a year but appeals of 10 other protesters are dismissed

  
• March 5 2025
  UK crime

  UK justice secretary to over-rule new sentencing advice over ‘double standards’

  Shabana Mahmood will recommend reversing guidelines that appear to favour offenders from ethnic minorities

  
• February 27 2025
  UK employment

  Sharp rise in UK young people not in work, education or training

  Figures are uncertain but suggest men in particular are struggling to enter slowing labour market

  
• February 23 2025
  Jemima Kelly

  When we politicise everything we make society stupider

  By losing our ability to see things at face value we are losing our grip on reality

  
• February 20 2025
  Part megachurch, part political rally: inside London’s ‘rightwing Davos’

  Three-day Arc conference attracts US and Australian speakers with blend of culture wars and religious urgency