Joe Cummings' illustration of Tim Cook Person in the news 7:23pm

Tim Cook: Apple’s quiet leader

A defence of the tech group’s tax affairs has boosted the chief’s profile, writes Tim Bradshaw

The A-list

The Latin American giant needs someone like the Facebook CEO to support immigration reform
– Moisés Naím
A recovery in the global economy would appear to be hallucinatory
– Stephen King
Like Apple, valuation has become divorced from fundamentals
– Mohamed El-Erian
A builder is seen silhouetted as he works on the roof timbers of a new house at a Persimmon Plc construction site for residential housing in Salisbury, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Persimmon, the U.K.'s largest homebuilder by market value, widened its operating margin to 12.2 percent in the first half from 9 percent a year earlier. ©Bloomberg Chris Giles Chris Giles from COLUMNISTS 6:55pm

Risk of creating another housing bubble

The chancellor should be working to build homes, not push prices up further

Christopher Caldwell from COLUMNISTS 7:29pm

A manifesto for the language of youth

Michel Serres thinks this texting, tweeting, Instagramming world is not stupid

OPINION 6:44pm

Clacton offers the future of politics

British political parties must engage with voters online, writes Douglas Carswell

Undercover Economist from OPINION 6:51pm

Loose money in all that spare change

The disappearance of small coins will be little noticed, writes Tim Harford

FT Editorial
Jurek Martin from COLUMNISTS 4:20pm

United we stand, together we brawl

Disasters used to bring the US together, now they expose the country’s political faultlines

Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival ©AP OBITUARIES 6:47pm

Magical musician who kept alight the fire

Ray Manzarek, keyboard player, 1939-2013

Gillian Tett from LIFE & ARTS 5:34pm

In with the ‘on’ crowd

Having a Bloomberg terminal has become tantamount to being part of the club of the modern global financial elite

Ingram Pinn illustration ©Ingram Pinn Philip Stephens from COLUMNISTS May 23, 2013

Abe will not help by rewriting history

The Japanese prime minister offers two positives but one dangerous negative

Martin Wolf from COLUMNISTS May 23, 2013

Osborne should not be complacent

It is odd for the IMF to criticise the policies of a G7 member for being too tight