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    Janan Ganesh

    International politics commentator

    Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
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    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Geography is (almost) everything

      Physical realities do more to shape world events than ideas

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Protectionism
      The west will rue its embrace of protectionism

      It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think

      The pod has replaced the TV drama as a way of not reading and feeling good about it

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Populism
      What the NHS and royal crises in the UK have in common

      The British find it worryingly hard to think ill of non-commercial, non-political institutions

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      What to look for in a restaurant

      A year of prolific dining out has left me with a shortlist of criteria

    • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
      Populism
      Drama has cost populists more votes than incompetence

      Demagogues can’t see that most people want a quiet life between elections

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The God-fearing case for immigration

      Religion in England is increasingly being propped up by immigrants and their descendants

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      German politics
      Rarity of the German coup plot is a triumph of democracy

      Liberals should notice what doesn’t happen in politics, not just what does

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Privilege doesn’t start with the super-rich

      The upper middle class are not much less detached from the average earner than the one per cent

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Geopolitics
      The year Europe’s innocent worldview fell apart

      Having achieved a legalistic peace at home, the continent grew blind to conflict outside it

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      When politics wasn’t a team sport

      Far from heralding the partisan age, Gore Vidal and William Buckley thought for themselves

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      Brexit
      How Brexit made Britain a more European country

      With a cheaper currency, higher taxes and messier politics, the UK has become continental

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      A lament for the age of apathy

      The growth of political engagement doesn’t make for better governance or more interesting conversations

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      FIFA World Cup
      Qatar World Cup critics are unprepared for the rest of this century

      The west will have to make far worse moral compromises as the centre of global power creeps elsewhere

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      How the humanities lost their prestige

      The liberal arts have been tainted by a politicisation that can’t afflict science

    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Populism
      This was the year liberal democracy fought back

      Populists have lost elections and autocrats have lost the aura of competence

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The real reason to get off Twitter

      It isn’t the abuse or the misinformation — it just reeks of low status

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      When the elite fights the elite

      Attacks on north London from other rich people will backfire

    • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
      Populism
      The public is not blameless in the crisis of democracy

      Elites are scared to say that voters want dangerous or contradictory things for fear of being seen as snobs

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Rishi Sunak puts the non-urban immigrant on the map

      Minorities in non-obvious places don’t have their story told 

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      UK Government
      Sunak will be a cleaner but not much better prime minister

      His competence is overrated but his rectitude offers a reprieve for Britain’s despoiled democracy

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Knowing what you want is the ultimate life skill

      It is more foundational to happiness than either talent or hard work

    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Labour’s progressive dream has died along with the Tories’ libertarian one

      If he is elected UK premier, Keir Starmer won’t have the money to do very much

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Why the business world is so bad at politics

      From Elon Musk to woke CEOs, the commercial cast of mind doesn’t understand fanaticism

    • Tuesday, 11 October, 2022
      Populism
      Why Tories and Republicans can’t do populism properly

      The liberal impulse in those countries stops the right building a paternalistic state

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