May 28, 2012

At last I see the genius of London’s Olympics

For a month or so London will actually work

Ingram Pinn May 24, 2012

Summits that cap the west’s decline

The rebalancing of power was never going to be easy but the speed of the turnround has been breathtaking

May 21, 2012

Cameron forgets his first political lesson

This PM should understand better than most the need to navigate according to circumstance

Daniel Pudles illustration ©Daniel Pudles May 17, 2012

The last chance to rescue the euro

Austerity policies designed to sustain credibility have begun to have the opposite effect

May 14, 2012

How to shame those overpaid executives

Shareholders and politicians must shine a brighter light on offending companies

Ferguson illustration May 10, 2012

Greece is falling out of Europe

Athens can say no to Brussels, Berlin and the IMF, and it can unshackle itself from the euro, but it cannot avoid austerity

May 7, 2012

A tip for Cameron: listen to Mario Monti

Differences between the UK and French leaders are as much about tone as substance

Ingram Pinn illustration: Hollande May 3, 2012

Stop fretting about a French revolution

The really ‘dangerous’ notion in Europe is that things can go on as they are

Apr 30, 2012

Cameron can save his premiership – by fixing Heathrow

At times like this the best a prime minister can do is take the side of the voters against the government

Pinn illustration Apr 26, 2012

The great middle class power grab

Even the most conservative assumptions point to an irrevocable redistribution of economic power

Apr 23, 2012

What do you want to do with all that power, Mr Cameron?

Unflattering assessments of the PM are seeping into public consciousness

Apr 19, 2012

A transatlantic tale of paralysis

Politicians in Europe and the US prefer to be prisoners of circumstance

Apr 16, 2012

Philanthropy is no alternative to paying tax

Mr Osborne’s charity proposal is reasonable – possibly over-generous

Mar 29, 2012

France votes to shut out the world

This campaign has no glimmer of recognition of the shifting geopolitical balance

Mar 26, 2012

Baby boomers are the wrong target

To listen to the debate about equity between generations is to be swept up in distortions

Mar 22, 2012

Obama gets the conservative vote

The Republicans are trailing in places where they have traditionally had a strong edge – both home and abroad

Mar 21, 2012

A roll of the dice on the top rate of tax

The measures were all about coalition dynamics

Mar 19, 2012

Business, beware, the rules of the game have changed

Custom and practice is no longer sufficient defence

Mar 15, 2012

New friends race to end an old war

If the war was ever winnable, it was lost when the US decided to invade Iraq

Mar 12, 2012

Irrelevant tax debate shows the sorry state of the coalition

The Tory right thinks the PM lacks backbone. Clegg’s troops worry he has sold out to Cameron

About Philip

Philip Stephens Philip Stephens is a commentator and author. He is associate editor of the Financial Times where as chief political commentator he writes twice-weekly columns on global and British affairs.

He joined the Financial Times in 1983 after working as a correspondent for Reuters in Brussels and has been the FT’s Economics Editor, Political Editor and Editor of the UK edition. He was educated at Wimbledon College and at Oxford university.

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