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From the Financial Times: Globalisation is failing in advanced western countries, where a process once hailed for delivering universal benefit now faces a political backlash. Why? The establishment view, in Europe at least, is that states have neglected to forge

Edward Luce of the Financial Times says that bookies give Donald Trump “a one in four chance of becoming the next US president” but that number might be “too low.”

The Financial Times has today published an article insisting that mass immigration from Africa and Asia into Europe is here to stay, so we’d better all get used to it. The article goes so far as to suggest that the

The Communist Party-run Xinhua News Agency is bombarding readers with reasons why China’s two-child population policy is beneficial for the country and the world, while completely ignoring the core complaints of human rights activists who say that the policy changes little or nothing.

Common Core publishing giant Pearson PLC will sell its Financial Times newspaper to focus more sharply on its education businesses.

The  London-based Financial Times has been sold to Nikkei, Japan’s largest media company, in a deal said to be worth £844m. The sale of the British publishing icon was announced on Thursday hours after owners Pearson confirmed that it was in “advanced talks” to

In its predictions for 2015, the Financial Times bets on Russian President Vladmir Putin, London house prices and Bitcoin… Follow Breitbart London on Twitter @BreitbartLondon

Conservative Members of Parliament have been accused of attempting to filibuster a Bill set to go through Parliament next Thursday, which seeks to enshrine the commitment to spend 0.7 percent of GDP on aid. Outspoken Tory MP Philip Davies said

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will allow Northern Ireland to set its own level of corporation tax in a move which could help Prime Minister David Cameron to hold on to power after May’s national election, the Financial Times reported on

A petition has been started to get Myleene Klass fired from her role at Littlewoods after she humiliated Ed Miliband on ITV’s political programme ‘The Agenda’. And the half-Austrian, half-Filipino musician and model has also been told by a Labour

As it picks through the rubble of the midterm elections, one of the bigger challenges for the Democrat party is recognizing not so much that its policies are perhaps too left-wing for the public, but that they are largely irrelevant.

Members of Parliament will not have to pay Labour’s proposed Mansion Tax. Instead, the bill will be picked up by taxpayers, as the tax on homes worth over £2m will be claimable on expenses, the Express has revealed. Under current

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials and student leaders will hold talks Tuesday to try to end pro-democracy protests that have gripped the southern Chinese city for more than three weeks, though chances of success are slim given the

(Reuters) – Labour Party is expected to announce plans on Thursday that will ban buy-to-let investors from purchasing new flats in London and other parts of Britain, the Financial Times reported. The plans, part of the Lyons review authorised by

Here is a brilliant Internet business plan: We get rich by creating a service that goes viral and generates 175 million customers. We then make $.08 a year on each and every one of them! All we have to do

The boss of British retailing giant John Lewis has launched into a diatribe against France, labelling the country “sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat”, and advising investors to pull out as quickly as possible. The company tried to brush off the remarks

MOSCOW, Sept. 24 (UPI) — Foreign ownership of Russian media outlets will be limited to 20 percent, in a bill passed by Russia’s Parliament and supported by the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It targets publications critical of Putin

Just as world leaders–well, world leaders without China, India, and several other important fossil fuel-using countries–gathered at the UN Climate Summit in New York on Tuesday, a curious piece of news crossed the wires. The Financial Times reported that, for the

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld part of a complaint by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) that adverts for clean coal being run by Peabody Energy were misleading and should not be used, EurActiv is reporting. The Peabody-backed Advanced

An article in yesterday’s Financial Times (FT) claiming that American banks are planning to move some of their activities to Dublin in the event of a British exit from the EU has been dismissed as “poorly briefed rubbish” and “wholly

Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s state-owned energy entity will consume 83 percent of the country’s proven and probable oil reserves, the AP reports. Mexican Energy Secretary Joaquin Coldwell said that Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) share of the oil supply will equal 2.5 million

I was involved in a very minor spat on Twitter last week. On the day Forest and the Hands Off Our Packs campaign delivered 53,000 letters to Downing Street opposing plain packaging of tobacco, journalist Pat Long tweeted:  Corporate stooges

Local UKIP activists in South Thanet have been quoted in the Financial Times saying that Nigel Farage will run for the seat at the 2015 General Election. In July Breitbart London exclusively revealed that Farage had been forced to delay his

The left wing across Europe is in uproar after Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban declared he wanted to build an “illiberal” state based on the Hungarian nation “while of course respecting the values of Christianity, freedom and human rights.” The

The Financial Times reports that a drop in ad sales at the New York Times caused the left-wing newspaper’s profits to collapse 54% in the second quarter of this year. The Times netted only $9.2 million this quarter compared to

A jihadist group has left Syria and is heading for Norway to carry out a terrorist attack, according to Norwegian security officials. The statement comes the day after the head of the Norwegian Security Service, the Norwegian Police Commissioner and

A computer hacker has breached security at the European Central Bank and stolen information from a public website, an attack which emerged only after officials at the ECB received a blackmail email demanding money in return for the data stolen.

German authorities have uncovered a price-fixing cartel among some of the country’s best-known sausage makers, claiming food manufacturers colluded for decades to rig the price of “Wurst” and related products. According to the Financial Times, Germany’s Federal Cartel Authority will

John Gapper in a Financial Times article titled “US Banks Will Pay Dearly For Their Failure To Modernize” warns that the United States banking system is failing to modernize and is actually falling behind England, India, and Africa, as the

Jean-Claude Juncker has demanded Britain send a woman to be our next European Commissioner, replacing Baroness (Cathy) Ashton, whose term has ended. The soon-to-be-installed President of the European Commission made the demand as he wants half of his cabinet to

From the Financial Times: It is not a corporation and does not have shareholders, but the military success and brutality of the jihadi group surging through Iraq have been recorded with the level of precision often reserved for company accounts.

The European Commission has borrowed €500m (£400m) in the capital markets to lend on to Ukraine, part of a €1.6bn (£1.3bn) programme of so-called Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) which is meant to draw the former Soviet bloc country closer into the

A column in the paper of record for the globalist “Party of Davos” argues that a Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush battle for the White House in 2016 will be a win-win for America. Writing in the Financial Times, Ed

IHS Consultants just published a report that lifting the U.S. oil export ban would cause U.S. crude oil production to rise by an average of 1.2 million barrels a day. The study argues that allowing crude oil exports would improve the fit