UK lenders raise mortgage rates amid warnings over inflation and energy prices
Market mood ‘has completely changed’ following outbreak of Middle East war
The war of unintended consequences
Israel and the US have achieved many military aims in Iran, but the unpredictable fallout poses threats to everyone
Can Crispin Odey convince a judge he was the victim of a regulatory crusade?
Financier is appealing UK watchdog’s decision to ban and fine him in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations
Trump’s war on Iran is spreading. Where does it stop?
US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to. Historian Eugene Rogan on what it means for the Middle East
We’ll always have Dubai
Why the newly endangered city will endure
Allowing 401ks to invest in private markets is a bad move at a bad time
The move might help asset managers but hurt savers and the economy more broadly
How mackerel became Schrödinger’s fish
We sure as hell aren’t buying that much in Waitrose
Amid European energy fears, coal creeps back into favour
A protracted conflict in the Middle East would dent expectations that global coal consumption will start to fall
Britain is now the home of the Middle Man
Rules don’t even have to be effective to provide gainful employment for advisers
‘Being honest about my debts is helping others — and it’s helped me’
‘Finfluencer’ Megan Archer-Fox has cleared £40,000 of credit card debt, urging others to drop the shame and secrecy
America rethinks how to train its workforce
A ‘skills gap’ is not some blight on free enterprise that someone else will fix
Papier founder: ‘I don’t own stocks or shares — it’s too much risk’
Taymoor Atighetchi on how he picked a sector ripe for disruption
Dan Duckhorn, winemaker, 1938-2026
Known as ‘Mr Merlot’, he successfully championed the grape in the US
The real-world paths to hell
How tourists became obsessed with finding the gates to the underworld of Greek mythology
Water, Japanese paper and a vacuum cleaner — the secrets of restoring Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
As the Sistine Chapel masterpiece is given a facelift, new aspects of the painter’s genius are coming to light
Are attention spans really shrinking?
Bear with me for 47 seconds — here’s why our fizzing brains still have the ability to focus
Why we should embrace human complexity
Sometimes we forget to acknowledge our multiple identities
Tax ‘cliff edges’ remove incentive to work, save and invest, say finance experts
Effective marginal tax rates discourage higher earners from pursuing career advancement
The AI pension advisers are already here
Millions of people are already turning to chatbots such as ChatGPT to plan their retirement
Notebook, Abu Dhabi: Where the UAE’s working classes eat — restaurant review
Forget the flash options. This Keralan chain restaurant in a mall is your key to the city
How we all got Marianne Faithfull wrong
The new film ‘Broken English’, shot shortly before the singer’s death, shows how powerful she was from her teenage breakthrough to her last days
Marinelli: my 15-year quest to ski the biggest face in the Alps
The FT’s travel editor on falling down a rabbit hole of obsession with the ‘most difficult, most beautiful’ descent in Europe
Cinema that feeds on — and into — our dreams
As new film ‘Resurrection’ plunges viewers into a world where no one dreams, we survey screen reveries from Hitchcock to Lynch and beyond
Odes to Ovid: 2,000 years of art inspired by Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
With works from Caravaggio to Louise Bourgeois, this spectacular Amsterdam show reminds us of art’s eternal pleasures