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The HTSI Holiday Gift Guide 2025

It’s never too early to sort your holiday shopping. The HTSI gift guide has a present for every type — from globetrotters and gadget gurus to gardeners and gourmets. Free to read with your FT account.

16 gifts for homebodies – with a taste for granny chic

The HTSI editor wants fancy fabrics, floral linens and a frou-frou shade

16 gifts for foodies – with a small side of kitsch

HTSI’s food columnist is hungry for Somerset cheese, Turkish delight and a Soft Serve lighter

16 gifts for art lovers who like a lick of gilt

The HTSI deputy editor is going high-culture or all-out gaudy

23 stocking fillers by independent makers

Smart gift ideas from traditional, family-owned labels

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Cocktails in a can: the new frontier for drooping drinks giants

Despite their popularity, ready-mixed drinks are unlikely to turn the tide for big beverage companies

Fine wine investors find little cheer in third year of falls

Jamie Laing on building sweet brand Candy Kittens: ‘I don’t really like weekends’

Spy chief Andrew Shearer: ‘I’ve never seen our agencies so stretched’

The head of Australian intelligence on the Hanukkah attack at Bondi Beach, the risk of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan — and his new role as ambassador to Japan

A year of Trumpian attacks on the rules-based international order