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Friday, 20 May, 2022

Thursday, 19 May, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How we quietly ditched the idea of progress

The new human mission, both global and personal, is avoiding disaster

Thursday, 12 May, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Democracy might be in crisis. But autocracy certainly is

From the 2008 crisis on, authoritarians were praised for their ‘efficiency’. Their troubles dwarf ours

Sunday, 1 May, 2022

ObituaryMino Raiola

Mino Raiola, football agent, 1967-2022

He was a born trader and hardball negotiator who prided himself on his small stable of players

Thursday, 28 April, 2022

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Don’t say things that are obviously true, and other conference survival tips

Follow these simple public-speaking rules and you could improve the experience of tens of thousands of people

Thursday, 21 April, 2022

FT MagazineFrench presidential election

Why the French think they’ve never had it so bad

Politicians like Marine Le Pen perpetuate the gloom by indulging in fantasies of national decline

Thursday, 14 April, 2022

Life & Arts

Why 1980s Oxford holds the key to Britain’s ruling class

From Partygate to Brexit, many of today’s political dramas can be traced back to the leading players’ student days

Wednesday, 13 April, 2022

FT MagazinePolitics

Putin: the disorder the far right and far left have in common

George Orwell was right. Hating your country is every bit as bad as loving it blindly

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

FT MagazineEmmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron, the cleverest boy in class, faces his biggest test ever

Though many voters dislike the president, most French people talk more radically than they think

Thursday, 31 March, 2022

FT MagazinePolitics

Fallacious political thinking of our time

‘Simplists cannot accept that some explanations may be true and yet too complex for laypeople to understand’

Thursday, 24 March, 2022

FT MagazineGeopolitics

We are living in an era of global fragility

Today’s world is like a giant train set. If any piece of track malfunctions, the global train can derail

Thursday, 17 March, 2022

FT MagazineGlobal migration

Becoming French is like winning the lottery

I was born with a lucky citizenship, and have now upgraded to the best of the 200 or so on earth

Thursday, 10 March, 2022

FT MagazineWar in Ukraine

Russia, Ukraine and the spectre of 1941

Putin’s army is inadvertently highlighting the parallels, bombing a Holocaust memorial and rerunning the destruction of Kharkiv

Sunday, 6 March, 2022

ObituaryCricket

Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, 1969-2022

A sporting superstar who revived the lost art of leg-spin bowling

Thursday, 3 March, 2022

FT MagazineUK business & economy

Who are the Londoners enabling the Russian elite?

Kleptocrats appreciate Britain’s rule of law — as long as it leaves them alone

Thursday, 24 February, 2022

FT MagazineWar in Ukraine

What western Europe can do for Ukrainians

And what Putin’s apologists fail to understand

Friday, 18 February, 2022

The Weekend Essay

The Premier League at 30 — an English success story?

Since the top clubs broke away from their peers in 1992, foreign players and money have flooded in

Thursday, 17 February, 2022

FT MagazineWar in Ukraine

This 1946 telegram predicts much of Russia’s 21st-century foreign policy

Somehow, an American diplomat foresaw thoroughly contemporary innovations like troll farms

Monday, 14 February, 2022

Workplace diversity & equality

English football: is it time to adopt compulsory hiring quotas for minorities?

Despite initiatives to address discrimination, black people are still battling to be considered for senior positions

Thursday, 10 February, 2022

FT MagazineUS Government

Making history via text message

From Republicans’ frantic January 6 texts to partygate WhatsApps, today’s communications are a gift for future historians

Thursday, 3 February, 2022

FT MagazineBoris Johnson

After the Tories ditch Boris Johnson, they need to reset their values

Johnson’s premiership has been largely spent sabotaging his own ‘oven-ready’ Brexit agreement with the EU and mismanaging Covid-19

Thursday, 27 January, 2022

FT MagazineGlobal migration

In praise of the cosmopolitans

In a globalised world, being an immigrant can be a big advantage

Thursday, 20 January, 2022

FT MagazineUS politics & policy

Why America is dangerously polarised — and Europe is not

Pundits often extrapolate from the US case, whereas in fact it’s an outlier

Thursday, 13 January, 2022

FT MagazineCovid-19 vaccines

The true toll of the antivax movement

By rejecting modern medicine, antivaxxers have recreated past eras when people died like flies

Monday, 10 January, 2022

FT Globetrotter

Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

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