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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Is France on the road to a Sixth Republic?

      As rage over pension reform spills out on to the streets, it may be time for the country to rethink its all-powerful presidency

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Life & Arts
      When Hong Kong stood still

      Thomas Hale was on his way to China when the pandemic struck — and then for two and a half years he watched as a city defined by movement was shut off from the world

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Africa special
      ‘We are daring to invent the future’ — the generation that rewrote Africa’s story

      The novelist Petina Gappah on a group of writers who put a fresh, modern vision of Africa out into the world

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Environment
      Apocalypse then: lessons from history in tackling climate shocks

      What can we learn from studying thousands of years of humanity’s response to natural disasters?

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How to contain a recalcitrant Russia

      At the start of the cold war, the ‘long telegram’ set out a blueprint for the west’s policy towards the USSR. It now offers lessons on living with Vladimir Putin’s Russia

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      My 20-year journey through the NHS

      As a patient and Number 10 adviser, Camilla Cavendish has witnessed the service’s struggles at first hand. Here she charts a way to safeguard its future

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Erdoğan, the earthquake and the failings in my homeland

      The writer Elif Shafak on a natural disaster compounded by man-made greed and corruption

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Germany grapples with the limits of pacifism

      As an adaptation of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is tipped for Oscars, the country’s long antiwar tradition is being tested by Russian aggression

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      India against Gandhi — a legacy rewritten

      Seventy-five years after his assassination, the ‘father of the nation’ is a problem for Narendra Modi — but the country still needs his ideas

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Capitalism
      Martin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalism

      The marriage of liberal economics and democracy has brought immense benefits to the world, but faces its toughest test in decades. What needs to be done?

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Television
      Can Netflix’s Break Point revitalise tennis?

      As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Life & Arts
      From peak dollar to better TV: Ruchir Sharma’s investor guide to 2023

      With the era of easy money at an end, who will be the winners and losers — and can we expect any blue birds?

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      ‘We will rebuild everything’: war, loss and faith in Ukraine

      Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed tells the story of two scientists caught up in the conflict and reflects on its agonising impact on his homeland

    • Friday, 23 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Lucy Kellaway’s lessons on life from moving to the North East

      Six months after relocating from London, the former FT columnist has a new perspective on what really matters

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Is the World Cup still the greatest show on earth?

      Gideon Rachman on the good, the bad and the Messi of Qatar 2022

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Can Just Stop Oil make the case for protest?

      The climate activists know their tactics make people angry — and they believe that’s a price worth paying

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Simon Schama: art versus the tyrants

      From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      ‘The English understand us’: hope and despair on the Calais migrant shore

      The strain on those hoping to cross the Channel from France is intensifying — so why does the UK still exert such a pull?

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      In the Bunker: Boris Johnson’s last stand

      A blow-by-blow account of the plotting that consumed the prime minister’s last day in power — climaxing with the showdown with his old rival Michael Gove

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      What happens next to Britain’s Ukrainian refugees?

      Camilla Cavendish talks to hosts and guests whose lives have been changed by Homes for Ukraine — and finds clues to future immigration policy

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The Benin Bronzes and the road to restitution

      Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Why trade couldn’t buy peace

      We thought globalisation was immune from geopolitical risk. We were wrong

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      The Royal Family
      King Charles and the future of the monarchy

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

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      How history caught up with my Russian academic friends

      From post-Soviet freedoms to resurgent autocracy: a historian reflects on the plight of Russia’s beleaguered intelligentsia

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Rule of the Rings — why film-makers can’t resist Tolkien’s fantasy world

      What is it about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ that inspires such fannish devotion — and such huge investments?

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