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The Big Read: Besides CryptoKitties, Yat Siu’s investments seemed unlikely to ever pay off. Then when Covid arrived, crypto speculation boomed and suddenly Animoca hit the big time. But the collapse in the market was as dramatic as its rise
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Stephen Bush: Information hoarding won’t benefit governments in the long run
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The brunt of these battles is falling on America’s librarians, who never expected to find themselves at the heart of the culture wars, writes Patti Waldmeir.
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The decision by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to move the hands of its doomsday clock closer to midnight should, logically, give the bunker business a recession-defying sales spike - but it's more likely to get a collective shrug, warns Leo Lewis
Leo Lewis visited a Japanese nuclear shelter-maker. He writes: ‘I am shown into one with eggshell blue padded walls and, optimistically given the post-Armageddon broadcasting constraints, shown a wall-mounted TV’
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Cordelia Jenkins makes the case for mess. She asks: ‘When did we get so organised?’
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. says that the Chinese spy balloon episode is ‘particularly inflammatory given America’s already heated political debate about China’.
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Welcome to the working week. In case you missed them, here are some of our most popular pieces from the weekend.
writes: ‘The land under my house has increased enormously in value over the past few decades. I did nothing to earn this’
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Rana Foroohar: What Biden should say in his State of the Union address
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The Big Read:Because of his age and underwhelming approval ratings, Biden gave the impression for much of last year that he was floundering. But the mood in the party is now completely different
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Gideon Rachman says Brexit could be reversed — and in his column he tells us how
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Gillian Tett: The hidden cost of back to work
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The DoJ has insisted on a jury to stop the public being blinded by industry jargon and Byzantine explanations of simple concepts in its latest antitrust case against Google, says Rana Foroohar
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Even before the current crisis, there was very little trust or warmth left between Washington and Beijing. Tensions are dangerously high, says Gideon Rachman
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FT View: Pakistan is facing its worst set of challenges in its modern history. Riven with political incompetence, an economy that is on the brink, devastation wrought by climate change and last week a terrorist attack that left 100 dead
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Stephen Bush: Truss has a ready and willing audience in Tory party
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Brooke Masters: Asset management: Fallout from the Adani Group
The Big Read: Biden starts making his case for a second term
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Martin Wolf: The case for a land value tax is overwhelming
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Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, 1943 — 2023
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Pilita Clark: Apple blundered when it killed off Dark Sky
The Big Read: Can the pioneer of blockchain gaming survive the crypto winter?
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Leo Lewis: Death and Japan’s nuclear shelter salesman
Boosting statistical capability is a long-term effort, and the results are often not immediately tangible, writes Alan Smith.
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The country needs an honest conversation about what an ageing population and a more dangerous world means for taxation, writes Nicholas Macpherson
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Janan Ganesh: The Premier League is global because it is local
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John Gapper: Toyota has a tragic flaw in the electric vehicle drama
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Camilla Cavendish: Tempting back older workers means ditching business as usual
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The Big Read: The Adani affair: the fallout for Modi’s India
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Robert Shrimsley: Memo to staff: dress fabulously
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Stephen Bush: ‘Generational warfare’ disguises the real divide in society
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Gillian Tett: The battle for the Colorado River is a water warning to us all
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"We should stop looking at the rise in private wealth as a magical source of revenue to solve society’s problems and instead focus on what else we can do to attack the lack of social mobility" -
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Helen Thomas: Shell is having a use-of-cash flow crisis
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In case you missed it, this was one of our most-read opinion pieces today: Robin Harding on batterymania.
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In case you missed it, this was one of our most-read opinion pieces yesterday. Robin Harding on batterymania.
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Martin Sandbu: The bad news in the good economic news
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The Big Read: The massive subsidies and buy-America provisions of the US $369bn Inflation Reduction Act are prompting a brutal reckoning in the EU on.ft.com/40w26LE
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Stephen Bush: Dominic Raab affair: Labour’s stick to dent Rishi Sunak’s ratings further
