10:00pm

Towards a more disarmed world

US and Russia should push harder cut nuclear arms

8:26pm

Extreme politics

France’s UMP will lose from flirtation with far right

8:19pm

Britain’s pointless cap on talent

UK should not limit the inflow of foreign students

May 14, 2012

US gay marriage

Presidential rivals should not use issue as political football

May 14, 2012

Merkel’s big test

Poll loss should not deter Berlin from boosting demand

May 14, 2012

Gas blowout at Chesapeake

It is time for investors to take a tighter grip on the company

May 11, 2012

Fishing for success

Campaign to preserve wild salmon nets economic gains

May 11, 2012

Europe’s painful democratic renewal

The sovereign debt crisis challenges mainstream parties

May 10, 2012

Inelegant U-turn on UK defence

F-35 decision is embarrassing but makes strategic sense

May 10, 2012

Lugar’s demise

Republicans should challenge not ape the Tea Party

May 10, 2012

Berlin reaches out to the periphery

Bundesbank and Schäuble views on inflation and pay offer hope

May 9, 2012

A hole in the heart of Spanish banking

Investors in savings bank’s IPO are right to be incensed

May 9, 2012

Cameron must get a grip on his team

The UK coalition badly needs some strategic direction

May 8, 2012

Greece alone must decide its fate

Europe should prepare for Greek exit from eurozone

May 8, 2012

The paradox of Putin’s third term

For Russia to advance, Putinism must be loosened

May 7, 2012

Stopping a slide to Afghanistan redux

Obama should launch a full-blown diplomatic surge

May 6, 2012

A touch of the mid-term blues

The coalition needs to recover its sense of purpose

May 6, 2012

Bibi gets a barrage

Israel’s securocrats break ranks with Netanyahu on Iran

May 6, 2012

America’s era of fiscal choices

Neither Obama nor Romney is levelling with voters

May 4, 2012

Irresistible rise of the angry investor

Shareholders should be given a binding say on pay deals

Comment Awards


The Financial Times has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards including best comment pages, business commentator: John Gapper, cultural commentator: Simon Kuper and foreign commentator: David Pilling

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