Italy is turning to deep-pocketed China in the hope Beijing will help stave off its financial crisis by making “significant” purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strategic companies, reports the FT. If true, this could help allay fears that Greece’s debt fiasco will engulf the entire eurozone; indeed, FT’s article late yesterday helped the euro and Wall Street stoc...

Italy is turning to deep-pocketed China in the hope Beijing will help stave off its financial crisis by making “significant” purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strategic companies, reports the FT. If true, this could help allay fears that Greece’s debt fiasco will engulf the entire eurozone; indeed, FT’s article late yesterday helped the euro and Wall Street stoc...

The Conservative party leader speaks to Financial Times editor Lionel Barber, and George Parker and Jean Eaglesham from the FT's Westminster team

One financial insider take to the pages of the FT to make the case for putting more women on the boards of the major firms.

The Financial Times hasn’t recently been a Tory cheerleader.  New Labour’s business-friendly attitude won it no little approval in the FT, and Livingstone’s London suited the FT’s equally suited readers rather better than one might think.   With that in mind, check out (free registration required) the warning shot across the bows of HMS Boris this ...

The Financial Times hasn’t recently been a Tory cheerleader.  New Labour’s business-friendly attitude won it no little approval in the FT, and Livingstone’s London suited the FT’s equally suited readers rather better than one might think.   With that in mind, check out (free registration required) the warning shot across the bows of HMS Boris this ...

The leader in today's FT says that the Tory plans to close down the Financial Services Authority and give its powers to the Bank of England represent unnecessary and counter-productive butchery: Under the Tory plans...an unchecked and unchallenged Bank may fall into groupthink about financial stability – as it did during the decade before the crisis. The Conservatives propose recruiting a handfu...

The op-ed page of the FT today is pretty essential. Both John Monks, now of the ETUC, but my old boss, and Nick Clegg , of the Liberal Democrats, stress the need for a European response to the financial crisis. The anger in the UK government at the Irish decision to provide unlimited protection for...

The Financial Times is for three things: big public spending, big Europe and big unaccountable elites. The FT's editorial today is a classic, if disappointing, example of the genre. Too often in FT-World, the powerful, distant elites of Brussels and...

  Here it is, a sneak preview of the new look FT.com. Judging by the new format, there shouldn’t be any problems with accessibility compliance. It makes me realise how much the FT online has been making me squint all these years.