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Forty-five years after his first visit, one of Britain’s leading military historians goes back to Afghanistan
A plan to fix US politics
The actor and Unicef ambassador witnessed the plight of thousands of young people displaced by conflict
A minor bump with another car left the FT columnist with the choice of prosecution or a day on a driver alertness course
Douglas Coupland’s casting call to find Vincent van Gogh’s living doppelgänger
My one-day voyage to Russia
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
The more I think about it, the more I realise booze really is glamorous. So are cigarettes. Life is odd
‘It was a truly beautiful thing, spooning voluptuously in the palm of my hand’
The nice thing about school reunions is that everyone is still themselves. Annoying people still annoy. The clueless remain clueless
There’s a one-in-four chance the hotel you’re going to is jackhammering something, and chances are it’s above your room
‘Somewhere in the past few years the present melted into the future — and we’re now living inside it 24/7’
Recalling the golden age of the shopping mall and why we may look back on the 1990s as the last good decade
The writer and comedian on why British girls are joining Isis
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
‘Imagine marrying someone who turned into a creaky, prematurely aged miser — would that be a deal-breaker for you?’
The FT’s international affairs editor on how the region became a breeding ground for conspiracy theories
Man-made odours can affect us in emotionally unpredictable ways
‘Smoking indoors feels like listening to smuggled Beatles records in Kiev in 1965. It feels stolen’
‘Some people fear public speaking more than death; these words are for them’
‘I think about noise more than most people since I lost my ability to “focus” sound’
The fish fillet sandwich encapsulates much that’s wrong with our thinking
‘Plastic airline cutlery became a haiku explaining one of humanity’s worst moments’
‘The moral dubiousness of reading someone’s email is eclipsed by the magnitude of whatever you find out’
Clacking trains at dawn in the city are a transport back to the sensations of growing up in Trinidad
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