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    Matthew Engel

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    Matthew Engel has had a journalistic career of unusual variety, covering everything from terrorism to tiddlywinks. He has reported from 50 countries and seven continents, clocking up No. 7 in January 2012 when the FT sent him to the Antarctic.

    For 12 years, he was editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. His latest book, ‘Engel’s England’, came out in October 2014.

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    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Cricket
      England men’s cricketers deliver miracle end to year full of weirdness

      Change of captain, coach and style of play bring team newfound success

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      King Charles and the future of the monarchy

      Can Britain’s new line of kings hold the union and Commonwealth together?

    • Saturday, 5 February, 2022
      Cricket
      Ever more gimmicky cricket would leave WG Grace stumped

      Administrators risk neglecting the soul of the game in their relentless pursuit of profit

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
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      How Britain fell back in love with the railways

      A pledge to roll back the Beeching cuts has rekindled a strange national obsession

    • Friday, 29 November, 2019
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      The battle for the Brexit-backing north

      Will Britain’s election be decided in the Labour heartlands? Matthew Engel reports

    • Friday, 16 August, 2019
      UK infrastructure
      The foreign states that own Britain’s railways

      Train travel in the UK now combines the worst features of capitalism and socialism

    • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
      Cricket
      England face Ashes examination after World Cup cricket glory

      Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled

    • Friday, 19 April, 2019
      Tiger Woods
      Child prodigy Tiger Woods becomes the ultimate comeback kid

      The holder of this title until now would, for me, have been Muhammad Ali

    • Friday, 12 April, 2019
      Cricket
      Cricket has started to eat itself

      The pursuit of novelty is leading to ever-shorter forms of the game

    • Friday, 11 August, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      The Last Wolf by Robert Winder — island stories

      Geography is destiny in this historical meditation on the peculiarities of the English

    • Friday, 14 July, 2017
      Sport
      Johanna Konta and the sporting citizens of nowhere

      National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport

    • Friday, 23 June, 2017
      FT SeriesSummer books 2017
      Summer books of 2017: new titles by FT writers

      Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter

    • Friday, 23 June, 2017
      Sport
      Henry Blofeld, voice of the English summer, to retire

      Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September

    • Friday, 16 June, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      That’s the Way it Crumbles by Matthew Engel — the conquest of English

      An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Why is Britain so disenchanted with its politicians?

      Matthew Engel tours Middle England in search of the root of voter disillusionment

    • Friday, 12 May, 2017
      Life & Arts
      All work and no play? The new ‘uni’ experience

      Academics and students on campus life in the era of ‘knowledge corporations’

    • Friday, 5 May, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Do I Make Myself Clear? by Harold Evans — eloquence under siege

      A celebrated journalist’s guide to crisp, accurate expression is full of sound advice

    • Friday, 10 February, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Are we witnessing the strange, lingering death of Labour England?

      In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions

    • Friday, 23 September, 2016
      Sport
      Middlesex take county cricket title in blazing fashion

      With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning

    • Friday, 9 September, 2016
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      The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again

      A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects

    • Friday, 12 August, 2016
      Olympic Games
      Rio Olympics 2016: BBC wins medal for hype and hyperbole

      Commentators have forsworn understatement

    • Friday, 22 July, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Golden years

      In Rio, records will fall and reputations will be made. But are the Olympics losing their ability to inspire?

    • Monday, 11 April, 2016
      World
      Willett’s star rises as Spieth learns to lose

      Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta

    • Thursday, 24 March, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Revising Ireland’s Easter Rising

      How has modern Ireland changed the way it views the events that took place in Dublin 100 years ago?

    • Friday, 12 February, 2016
      Life & Arts
      St Moritz on thin ice

      In the resort where winter tourism began, warm weather forced the cancellation of the White Turf horse race

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