The Brexit Effect: How Leaving the EU Hit the UK | FT Film | Reupload

Oct 18, 2022 | The UK's recent disastrous "mini" Budget can trace its origins back to Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave, the effect has become clear. In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a 'Brexit dividend'. | Produced, directed and edited by Daniel Garrahan

Brexit: We Must Be Given a New Referendum

Michael Heseltine is one of the best of Tories. A politician of great wisdom and understanding: a gentleman to boot. – © Mark Alexander

The Brexit Effect: How Leaving the EU Hit the UK | FT Film

The UK's recent disastrous "mini" Budget can trace its origins back to Britain's decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave, the effect has become clear. In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a 'Brexit dividend'.

The Case for a Universal Basic Income | Free Lunch on Film

Dec 20, 2021 • The coronavirus pandemic has opened the door to radical economic reform, argues FT columnist Martin Sandbu. A no-strings regular cash transfer to everyone could shake up the welfare system, bring new economic security, and create more opportunities for all. Welcome to Free Lunch on Film where unorthodox economic ideas are put to the test.

North Korea Threat after Trump Vows ‘Fire and Fury’ | FT World

Oliver Stone on How the US Misunderstands Putin

The Oscar-winning filmmaker spent 20 hours shooting a documentary with the Russian president, and tells the FT's Matthew Garrahan that the western world has Vladimir Putin all wrong.

Martin Wolf on the Rise of Populism | Opinion

FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf explores with comment editor Jonathan Derbyshire the causes of populism today, cultural and economic, and they also discuss why populism has become more potent nearly a decade after the financial crisis.

Saudi Succession Change | World

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has promoted his favoured son, Mohammed bin Salman, to crown prince in a shake-up of the established succession order that clears the young royal’s path to the throne.

Why Macron Is On the Rise in France | World

The FT’s Paris bureau chief Anne-Sylvaine Chassany looks at what’s behind the rise in popularity of Emmanuel Macron in the Frenc

Inside Brexit: How Britain Lost Europe

Brexit and the UK's Rôle in 2017

Lionel Barber, editor of the FT, and Janan Ganesh discuss they key factors that led to the UK's Brexit vote, the prospects for the UK in 2017 and what role the country will play in the world.

The Case for Change
Britain needs a stable and legitimate government to navigate its fiscal crisis and punch its weight abroad. On balance, the Conservative party best fits the bill. – FT
FT – Editorial: The word “change” has ricocheted around the British election campaign. All the main parties, including the incumbent Labour government, have promised it, with varying degrees of plausibility. None has managed to convince a wary public.

To some extent this is because the electorate is uncertain about the change it wants. The national mood veers between cynicism and contempt towards politicians. The main beneficiaries have been the Liberal Democrats, who have transformed themselves, partly by virtue of novelty, from marginal players into potential partners in a future government.

But the parties have not articulated convincingly what change means. The campaign has focused too much on personalities rather than matters of substance. The televised debates between the party leaders briefly captured the popular imagination, but the price was to foster the idea of politics as game show. Real differences on policy have been obscured.

None of the parties has tackled head-on the question of how to restore Britain’s public finances. This year, the UK is expected to run a fiscal deficit of 11.1 per cent of national output – or £163bn. The parties have not been straight with the public about the austerity that lies ahead. Whoever enters Number 10 may suffer a form of winner’s curse.

The Financial Times has no fixed political allegiances. We stand for a liberal agenda: a small state, social justice and open international markets. But we do have a vision of the changes needed for economic and political renewal. It is on this basis that we judge the fitness of the contenders for power.

The problems facing the UK are daunting – more so than at any time since the 1970s. Then, as now, there was much talk of national decline. But Britain’s difficulties are not insurmountable. Strong leadership under Margaret Thatcher made the difference in 1979. Similar resolve is required today.

The economic challenge goes beyond the need to restore the public finances. The state has grown too large, accounting for 48 per cent of national output. Its sprawling size threatens to stifle the economy, crimping private enterprise and the wealth creation vital to preserve Britain’s standing in the world. It must be hacked back. >>> FT Editorial | Monday, May 03, 2010

FT Switches Allegiance To The Tories
SKY NEWS: The Financial Times has switched allegiance to the Tories having backed Labour at the previous four General Elections. >>> Miranda Richardson, Sky News Online | Tuesday, May 04, 2010

LE POINT: Le Financial Times apporte son soutien à David Cameron : Le Financial Times a apporté mardi son soutien aux conservateurs, à deux jours des élections générales en Grande-Bretagne, affirmant que le principal parti d'opposition, s'il arrive au pouvoir, instaurera le meilleur climat pour les entreprises. >>> LePoint.fr | Mardi 04 Mai 2010

God Help Europe! Even the Financial Times Buys Into the Idea of the Reformation of Islam and the Rôle of Turkey in that ‘Reformation’
FINANCIAL TIMES: Aficionados of the clash of civilisations are fond of the thesis that the Muslim world’s problem is that it has not undergone a reformation. This imperiously ignores that Islam, by retrieving the classics of Greek science and philosophy, dragged Europe out of the dark ages and made possible the Renaissance.

It is nonetheless true that the articulation of modern Islamic thinking is hampered by a number of self-inflicted handicaps. News that Turkey’s religious establishment is close to completing a modern reinterpretation of Islam is therefore a potentially huge – and highly controversial – development.

Theologians at Ankara University, backed by the Diyanet, Turkey’s state authority for religious affairs, are re-examining the Hadith, the sayings and deeds attributed to the Prophet Mohammed. The Hadith were not codified until two centuries after the Prophet’s death in 632. While the Koran is held by Muslims to be the revealed word of God to the Prophet, the Hadith – initially an orally transmitted tradition of the Prophet’s time – are the origin of the majority of Sharia law.

Modern scholars believe many Hadith betray cultural traditions and mechanisms of social control – particularly of women – alien to the original message of Islam. Practices such as female genital mutilation, common in Egypt, are African customs alien to the Arabian peninsula. Even the veiling of women is thought to be a borrowing from the Byzantine aristocracy.

The “Ankara School” plans to strip away the accretions and apocrypha of the Hadith, looking at the texts through the contextual techniques of hermeneutics. The idea, encouraged by Turkey’s government of neo-Islamist reformists, is of a truly modernised Islam. Rethinking the message of Islam >>>

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