©AFP
10:33pm
- Help
- •Contact us
- •About us
- •Sitemap
- •Advertise with the FT
- •Terms & conditions
- •Privacy policy
- •Copyright
© The Financial Times Ltd 2013 FT and 'Financial Times' are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
©AFP
10:33pm
10:31pm
Brazil is our invaluable partner in global race
From Robert Halfon MP and others. Sir, We were concerned to read that the Home Office wants to remove the current visa travel arrangements between Brazil and the UK
10:29pm
Japan’s monetary kite unlikely to take off soon
From Mr Alok Sheel. Sir, Martin Wolf raises some interesting issues regarding the strategy that the new team in Bank of Japan could adopt in trying to address deflation
10:26pm
‘Bureaucrats’ not behind bonus cap proposal
From Sharon Bowles MEP. Sir, Andrea Leadsom claims that the cap on bankers’ bonuses is a ‘vengeful’ proposal from the European Commission, aiming to restrict the UK financial services industry
10:25pm
Problem summed up in one sentence
From Mr Peter Malmqvist. Sir, Andrea Leadsom writes: ‘A banker in London can literally put the phone down on Friday evening and pick it up on Monday morning in New York and carry on’
10:17pm
Doubtful about amount of NFC surplus
From Mr Gareth Williams. Sir, Martin Wolf (‘The sad record of fiscal austerity’) highlights the structural financial surplus of UK non-financial companies as an area for policy attention
10:08pm
Hypocrisy of the BP protesters
From Mr Noah Johnson. Sir, A picture can say a thousand words, and the picture of activists bearing signs shouted three: irony, hypocrisy and irresponsibility
9:59pm
PCC election was a pointless exercise
From Dr Alex May. Sir, Gus O’Donnell bewails the ‘pathetic’ turnout for the police and crime commissioners’ elections as evidence of our woeful political participation
9:56pm
Act before student debt holds UK back
From Dr Michael Cross. Sir, We learn – again – that student debt is not a great way to fund higher education
9:54pm
If this is a stealth tax then it is justified
From Prof Richard Croucher and Dr Marian Rizov. Sir, As researchers long concerned with minimum wages and their effects, we support the sentiments expressed in your editorial
9:45pm
Drone policy a proper subject for open debate
From Mr Paul Bloustein. Sir, I find myself rejecting the idea that killing one’s enemies by drone, in our battle against Islamist terror, will render our society unfit for polite folk
Mar 5, 2013
South Africa’s voters must be educated
From Mr Graham Thomas. Sir, Alec Russell’s insightful report on his interview with African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma ends with a rather chilling statement from Mr Zuma
Mar 5, 2013
Grillo’s methods are unorthodox – but effective
From Ms Sylvia Cossich Goodman. Sir, It is interesting to me how Beppe Grillo is portrayed mostly as being a stand-up comic
Mar 5, 2013
What to do if elected
From Mr Peter W. Gerrard. Sir, Beppe Grillo, when asked what he would do if elected, responded: ‘I don’t know’
Mar 5, 2013
Hitch-hiker’s guide to monetary infrastructure
From Prof Richard A. Werner. Sir, Good to know that the deputy governor knows that negative interest rates on banks’ reserves at the Bank of England cannot be ‘the answer to the universe’
Mar 5, 2013
A chance of care for more HIV sufferers
From Mr Mark Harrington and Mr Tim Horn. Sir, Christine Livoti’s article sheds considerable light on the pending availability of generic HIV treatment regimens in the US
Mar 5, 2013
No signs of extremism despite warnings
From Prof Michael Burleigh. Sir, I would like to congratulate Gideon Rachman on his sensible and unhysterical article ‘Europe’s crisis is breeding comedians not fascists’
Mar 5, 2013
Quite unacceptable – even as a joke
From Mr Anthony Smith-Meyer. Sir, Lucy Kellaway makes reference to her one instance of being improperly propositioned by a senior colleague
Mar 5, 2013
Lucy is right, it was a compliment
From Dr Ruth White. Sir, Lucy Kellaway’s article this week is the reason she is my favourite columnist on both sides of the ocean
Mar 5, 2013
Reticence means one thing only
From Dr John Tiffany. Sir, Your editorial ‘Lessons from Iraq a decade after war’ refers to ‘this new reticence to intervene’
Featured
More stories
Offers
JOIN THE BUSINESS ELITEMore people at the top read the FT*
*FT has grown in every major readership survey
*FT has grown in every major readership survey YOUR VIEWS
Send an email to the editor of the FT
ANALYSIS
IN DEPTH
MOST POPULAR IN COMMENT & ANALYSIS
TOOLS & SERVICES
Multimedia
Tools
- Portfolio
- FT Lexicon
- FT clippings
- Currency converter
- MBA rankings
- Newslines
- Today's newspaper
- FT press cuttings
- FT ebooks
- FT ePaper
- Economic calendar