Year in review 2005
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Look back on the big corporate, economic and political stories of the year and view a gallery of the best news images of 2005. Our full package includes a profile of our person of the year, our critics’ choices on everything from gadgets to books and our predictions for the year ahead.
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The future is nuclear and shares go on rising
FT writers predict the events and issues that will shape the year ahead in world affairs, economics, business and sport.
Utilities to feel the heat of gas price rises
Concerns over domestic and international gas prices are likely to be the preoccupations of UK utilities executives in 2006.
Experts sceptical on official growth forecasts
Economists are broadly sceptical of the Treasury and Bank of England’s forecast of a rebound in economic growth starting at the end of this year, a Financial Times survey reveals.
A year in the life of the European Union
George Parker, FT Brussels bureau chief, on how a grim year for the EU finally ended in something of a revelation: Europe’s politicians discovered to their surprise they could still work together.
Related content and features
Business news review
A bumper year
2005 was a year of breakneck growth at Google, multibillion dollar mergers in telecoms, soaring oil prices, a record number of new listings, scandals and boardroom battles. FT.com looks back at the most significant business and financial stories of the year.
Interactive gallery
The year in pictures 2005
FT.com’s design team picks out the most striking images of 2005 - from earthquakes, hurricanes and floods to the fear and devastation of terrorist attacks and the Pope’s funeral.
Technology in 2006
Creatives face a closed Net
Technology will make it easier for content owners to control access to their material, and how it is used, writes Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School
Best business books
Jonathan Guthrie: For your New Year to-do-list
I have just ploughed through a stack of business books seeking volumes readers can peruse over Christmas, or at least put aside to read in the New Year, when the daily gym visits and harpsichord lessons are also due to begin.
FT-IT Review
A great year for design
FT writers identify winners and losers in 2005, a year when consumer technology dominated.
Gadgets and gizmos
Paul Taylor: The year’s best digital buys
In the final days of the holiday shopping season Paul Taylor takes a look at some popular personal technology categories and lists his top 10 products of the year.
Critics’ choice
Review of Music 2005: The Best Pop
A decade on from the original, a second wave of Britpop crashed down upon us this year.
The best fiction
Review of Books 2005
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro’s foray into speculative fiction, is even more chilling for occurring in our own times and in a traditional English setting.
