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      The first days in office of Donald Trump and Sean Spicer

      Rarely has a press secretary launched such an attack on the White House press corps

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      Lucy Colback on why Chongqing epitomises China’s breakneck pace

      The FT Lex writer returns to a region she last visited in 1990 — and feels she could almost be in Manhattan

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      The FT political correspondent’s resolutions for his personal journal in 2017

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      The co-founder of the Syrian Trojan Women Project attends a symposium in Thailand

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      The FT’s Frankfurt bureau chief sees immigration dilemmas played out in one of Mozart’s great operas

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      The FT columnist on a ‘polycentric world’ and Russia’s restrained mood in light of Trump’s victory

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      The FT editor gets a sense of a nation on the move, with its people eager to escape a savage Stalinist past

    • Friday, 21 October, 2016
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      The author plays cricket in the ‘Jungle’ with minors who want to reach the UK

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      The FT’s technology correspondent chases Swedish unicorns and discovers that the Scandinavian city has gone cashless

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      Florida Diary: Courtney Weaver

      The FT’s US political correspondent visits a battleground state in the US presidential election

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      Russia Diary: Charlotte Mendelson

      On a visit to Russia, the novelist makes new intellectual friends and wants to cry as she sees so much beauty

    • Friday, 16 September, 2016
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      Accra Diary: Maggie Fick

      The FT correspondent learns that young Ghanaians are trying to shape the future in spite of forces they have less control of

    • Friday, 26 August, 2016
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      Corfu Diary: Frederick Studemann

      The FT’s comment and analysis editor remembers with pride one of his family’s more notable ancestors

    • Friday, 19 August, 2016
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      The Diary: Jeremy Paxman

      The FT’s contributing editor thinks the most striking thing about rooms full of old people is how very little you see them laughing

    • Friday, 12 August, 2016
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      Amazon Diary: Misha Glenny

      The UK journalist on Brazil’s evangelisation, cyber technology, university of crime, and the Amazon’s wanton destruction

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      The Diary: Josh Spero

      The FT’s deputy special reports editor on watching Wagner’s ‘Ring’ and visiting Bishop Auckland

    • Friday, 24 June, 2016
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      The Diary: John Kampfner

      Night after night, the champagne flows as corporates vie for the glitziest party on the beach or, better still, on the yacht

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      My 44-year-old eider duck sleeping bag is my long-stop in life, even if the pound collapses next week

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      Singapore Diary: James Crabtree

      The visiting research fellow on his first Shangri-La Dialogue, China’s island-building in Asia and the Funtasy Island spat

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      The law professor on his lecture at the Hay Festival and why he is hopeless with faces and names

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      The Diary: Jeremy Paxman

      The FT’s contributing editor on how the European referendum has energised people, the growing elderly population and fishing

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      The Diary: Ruchir Sharma

      The author on Indian politicians, Turkish politics and the city with the second-best food

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      Seven strange days in North Korea

      The FT’s Asia editor on his visit to the hermit kingdom

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      The Diary: Jan Dalley

      On a visit to New York, the FT’s arts editor contemplates the architecture and attends the Frieze art fair

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