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    • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
      Travel
      Raffles London and the new era of super-luxe hospitality

      Whitehall’s former War Office is reopening as a £1.4bn temple to luxury, and FT travel editor Tom Robbins was its first guest. What does the biggest hotel launch in a century mean for the city?

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    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Monet, the artist who changed how we see the world

      The revolutionary painter who gave us Impressionism transformed the art world forever. But what, asks the author of Monet’s first English-language biography, about his inner life?

      An early 20th-century black-and-white photograph of Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Who was the real Amy Winehouse?

      As we approach what would have been the singer’s 40th birthday, the lurid tales are giving way to a more considered appreciation of her work

      Amy Winehouse sits on a chair, one leg crossed over the other, her hands held up to her head
    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The real Rino: Trump vs conservatism

      Donald Trump likes to dismiss rivals as ‘Republican In Name Only’. But, argues Simon Schama, it is the former president’s own MAGA movement that most deserves the label

      People wearing baseball caps with Trump and MAGA slogans
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Can AI crack comedy?

      Machines are getting better at making us laugh — and challenging our notions of humanity in the process

      A small robot on a table on a stage performs in front of a crowd
    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      ‘No congregation, no church’: how Scotland lost the faith

      As a depleted Church of Scotland prepares to make deep cuts, John Lloyd explores the social consequences of religious retreat

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Travel
      ‘This isn’t fun!’ — when holiday dreams turn to nightmares

      From challenging children and unhinged bus drivers to relationship meltdowns and kitchens from hell, Lucy Kellaway, Martin Wolf and other FT writers share their worst travel moments

    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The untold history of today’s Russian-speaking hackers

      They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The UFO whistleblower and the search for extraterrestrial life

      After David Grusch’s testimony to the US Congress this week, is it OK to talk about aliens? Henry Mance looks at the evidence

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    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      A boat to stop the boats? Bibby Stockholm and the battle over asylum

      As the controversial accommodation barge arrives in Dorset, Horatio Clare reports on a strange encounter between polarising refugee policy and British maritime tradition

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    • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?

      Complaints about overcrowding and cultural insensitivity are getting louder. Now some destinations have decided to act

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    • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      A GP’s prescription for the NHS at 75

      Dr Margaret McCartney argues for an end to political quick fixes — and more power to general practice

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    • Saturday, 1 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      A new road for Russia?

      A diminished Putin may have survived Prigozhin’s mutiny. But, argues Robert Service, history gives him little ground for optimism

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    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Travel
      Extreme tourism: ‘If it was safe, that’s not an adventure’

      Why do people pay small fortunes to risk their lives?

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    • Saturday, 17 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Trump, Johnson and the real problem with populism

      Helped to power by mainstream conservatives, this is a movement whose leaders cannot be expected to self-destruct

      A crowd of people, their backs turned to the camera, gathers expectantly, with one man wearing the US flag on his back
    • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Is eating out a luxury again?

      Tim Hayward on the inflation fear stalking restaurants — and whether we should pay more for our food

      A pie with a design featuring two people at a table eating
    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Sport
      Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi: who was the greatest footballer?

      As their ‘beautiful rivalry’ comes to an end, which of these sporting superstars emerges the winner?

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Can AI make me a musical star?

      As vocal clones of music’s biggest names go viral, the FT’s pop critic embarks on an unlikely quest to replicate his favourite singer’s voice

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Can a right turn revive the Tories?

      At two political gatherings over the past week, a battle has been raging for the soul of Britain’s Conservative party

      Two boxes - one with Rishi Sunak’s photo and one with Boris Johnson’s - containing blue balls
    • Saturday, 13 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The other Freddie Mercury: inside the singer’s London home

      For three decades Mary Austin has been the custodian of the Queen frontman’s art-filled house. Now she is finally ready to sell its contents

      A crown and red cloak in a chest
    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?

      After the ceremony, much will depend on what the King can do to restore a sense of shared national community

      B/W photo of four-year-old Prince Charles wearing formal clothes, accompanied by a nanny
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The National Trust must transcend the culture wars

      Britain’s biggest heritage organisation has a secret weapon it can deploy, argues Neil MacGregor — the ability to speak with more than one voice

      An ornate high-ceilinged room with columns, alcoves and statues inside a grand stately home
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Life & Arts
      What makes a whistleblower?

      A personal history of intelligence leaks by the former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The new age of the night train

      As cheap flights lose their allure, the sleeper is being reborn as an environmental — and romantic — alternative

    • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
      Life & Arts
      What I learnt from three banking crises

      Gillian Tett has had a ringside view of a quarter-century of financial crashes. What can each teach us — and will technology change the game?

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