Andy Burnham’s first appearance in the Commons as Prime Minister was meant to signal a change of direction. He walked out of Downing Street with the air of a man ready to confront the country’s long‑ignored structural problems — water, energy, transport — the basic machinery of daily life that has been left to rot … Continue reading
How the 2026 oil crunch could spiral into a global rupture The FT Weekend headline — “Oil market four weeks from crunch” — reads like a warning whispered through the polite grammar of financial journalism. But beneath the restrained phrasing lies something far more consequential: the early architecture of a systemic crisis. The numbers are … Continue reading