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    • Friday, 4 November, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Return to Kabul: historian Hew Strachan on a country in transition

      Forty-five years after his first visit, one of Britain’s leading military historians goes back to Afghanistan

    • Friday, 21 October, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland on why America’s two-party system is no longer fit for purpose

      A plan to fix US politics

    • Friday, 16 September, 2016
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      Ewan McGregor’s trip to northern Iraq’s displacement camps

      The actor and Unicef ambassador witnessed the plight of thousands of young people displaced by conflict

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2016
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      A minor bump with another car left the FT columnist with the choice of prosecution or a day on a driver alertness course

    • Friday, 22 July, 2016
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      What’s your type?

      Douglas Coupland’s casting call to find Vincent van Gogh’s living doppelgänger

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland’s Observations: Darnac

      My one-day voyage to Russia

    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland: strange dust

      Everyone makes that fake ‘Ooh, salad!’ face, like it’s something to look forward to. But it’s filled with this stuff called lettuce that spends its life in a field being sprayed with pesticides

    • Friday, 27 May, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland: Plonk

      The more I think about it, the more I realise booze really is glamorous. So are cigarettes. Life is odd

    • Friday, 13 May, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland: One Stone

      ‘It was a truly beautiful thing, spooning voluptuously in the palm of my hand’

    • Friday, 22 April, 2016
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      Observations: Grad

      The nice thing about school reunions is that everyone is still themselves. Annoying people still annoy. The clueless remain clueless

    • Friday, 8 April, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland: The 3rd Room

      There’s a one-in-four chance the hotel you’re going to is jackhammering something, and chances are it’s above your room

    • Thursday, 10 March, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland: Escaping the superfuture

      ‘Somewhere in the past few years the present melted into the future — and we’re now living inside it 24/7’

    • Friday, 26 February, 2016
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      Douglas Coupland: The rise and fall of the mall

      Recalling the golden age of the shopping mall and why we may look back on the 1990s as the last good decade

    • Friday, 12 February, 2016
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      Shazia Mirza: From playground to warzone

      The writer and comedian on why British girls are joining Isis

    • Friday, 5 February, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland: a lot o’ Lotto

      If you ever wonder what it looks like to see someone lose several million dollars, let me tell you, it is a dreadful thing to witness

    • Friday, 22 January, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland: Frugality

      ‘Imagine marrying someone who turned into a creaky, prematurely aged miser — would that be a deal-breaker for you?’

    • Friday, 15 January, 2016
      Life & Arts
      The plots thicken in the Middle East

      The FT’s international affairs editor on how the region became a breeding ground for conspiracy theories

    • Friday, 8 January, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland: The power of smell

      Man-made odours can affect us in emotionally unpredictable ways

    • Friday, 18 December, 2015
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      Douglas Coupland: Coffee & Cigarettes

      ‘Smoking indoors feels like listening to smuggled Beatles records in Kiev in 1965. It feels stolen’

    • Friday, 4 December, 2015
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      Douglas Coupland: Tips for public speaking

      ‘Some people fear public speaking more than death; these words are for them’

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      Douglas Coupland: With Bells On — peace and quiet

      ‘I think about noise more than most people since I lost my ability to “focus” sound’

    • Friday, 30 October, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Douglas Coupland: Fish wish

      The fish fillet sandwich encapsulates much that’s wrong with our thinking

    • Friday, 16 October, 2015
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      ‘Plastic airline cutlery became a haiku explaining one of humanity’s worst moments’

    • Friday, 18 September, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Katie Roiphe: Text-snooping

      ‘The moral dubiousness of reading someone’s email is eclipsed by the magnitude of whatever you find out’

    • Friday, 28 August, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Lawrence Scott: Sounds of home

      Clacking trains at dawn in the city are a transport back to the sensations of growing up in Trinidad

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