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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · Jul 29

Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA

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Beware the forever 35-year-old face on.ft.com/4q33bXQ #FTEdit

Beware the forever 35-year-old face

In a ‘golden age’ of surgery, we’re all in danger of becoming freaks

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 16h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/46KyTSf #FTEdit

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

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Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be on.ft.com/3J1EL0b #FTEdit

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17h

Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’ on.ft.com/4o4sVlz

Must you chew so loud? The trials of suffering from ‘misophonia’

The strange emerging science behind a little-understood medical condition

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 17h

Former US trade chief Robert Lighthizer: ‘Economists have been wrong on everything!’ on.ft.com/3VZfYgo

Former US trade chief Robert Lighthizer: ‘Economists have been wrong on everything!’

The architect of Trump’s first-term tariff policy on the end of free trade, swapping the White House for Wall Street — and why he considers the president ‘the most honest person’

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Should we put a high price on work visas? on.ft.com/4h54IJ4 #FTEdit

Should we put a high price on work visas?

The US wants to make the immigration of skilled workers more expensive; the UK cheaper. Who’s wrong?

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My favourite fonts in Paris – a typographical tour on.ft.com/4h3URTy #FTEdit

My favourite fonts in Paris – a typographical tour

Graphic designer Yorgo Tloupas explores the signs, signatures and inscriptions of the French capital

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The quest to make young blood into a drug on.ft.com/3VYvLvP #FTEdit

The quest to make young blood into a drug

Scientists are trying to prove whether plasma can slow ageing

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A utopian future is still possible (just) on.ft.com/4q4S9l2 #FTEdit

A utopian future is still possible (just)

Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

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The global trend for matcha in all forms — lattes, ice creams, even KitKats — is driving suppliers to the brink as what was once a niche tea goes mainstream. Are you a fan? Let us know in today's #FTEdit poll: on.ft.com/3L4satN

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Inside Intel’s big bet to save US chipmaking — and itself on.ft.com/42xQFFV #FTEdit

Inside Intel’s big bet to save US chipmaking — and itself

Claims of a breakthrough at the chips company’s new Arizona facility will be tested by sceptical Big Tech customers

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JPMorgan requiring biometric data for staff access to new headquarters on.ft.com/3VYFbra #FTEdit

JPMorgan requiring biometric data for staff access to new headquarters

New York bank is imposing eye and fingerprint scans amid heightened security concerns at corporate offices

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Is it time to get into gold? It depends on your age on.ft.com/47hSJEC #FTEdit

Is it time to get into gold? It depends on your age

There is little upside for the young, but the yellow metal is perfect for protecting your pension — and global uncertainty is not going away

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Discord at the Venice opera house on.ft.com/4o4Byfg #FTEdit

Discord at the Venice opera house

La Fenice’s orchestra has objected loudly to the appointment of a conductor aligned with Giorgia Meloni’s party

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Why the vibes are wrong for ‘vibe working’ on.ft.com/4nI8jiw #FTEdit

Why the vibes are wrong for ‘vibe working’

The phrase used by Microsoft is the latest in a long list of vibe-related phenomena

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Syrians return home to a land littered with explosives on.ft.com/4ovRDLt #FTEdit

Syrians return home to a land littered with explosives

Mines and IEDs have killed hundreds since civil war ended and have held back investment and reconstruction

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The Davos set in decline: can the World Economic Forum save itself? on.ft.com/42zTS7L

The Davos set in decline: can the World Economic Forum save itself?

Battered by scandal, the Swiss organisation behind the annual summit faces a moment of crisis. Insiders say its future may depend on the success of next year’s meeting

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Trump looms large over Nobel Peace Prize on.ft.com/4nMHUQM #FTEdit

Trump looms large over Nobel Peace Prize

US president pressures Norwegian government and independent committee to select him on Friday

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Are you paying too much council tax? Explore our interactive tools in today’s article, which you can read for free when you register for FT Edit 👉 on.ft.com/3VZWVCy

How unfair is your council tax?

FT analysis highlights arbitrary nature of system, allowing readers to discover how their bill compares in their area

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Moving your house into a different band is no easy task. You can appeal, but 65 per cent of attempts were unsuccessful in 2023-24. Past administrations have wondered about reform — and then opted not to. It’s going to take bold thinking and an even braver government to fix this tax that time forgot.

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This often seems to benefit more affluent areas. Take Burnley. Most homes cost £125,000 and are in the lowest band A. They pay roughly £1,337 a year in council tax.

Compare that to Westminster, where the average house price is just shy of £1mn. They pay an average £1,057.

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This weirdness is because council tax bills are based on property values from 1991 — regardless of how much house prices have changed since. For context, in 1991 John Major was PM, the Cold War had just ended, and 2G was launched but nobody cared because cell phones were bigger than home phones.

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A new FT analysis has revealed that the majority of all houses in England are in the wrong council tax band, with many homeowners paying too much or too little. You may well be one of them! Modest homes are often paying more than mansions.

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