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As rage over pension reform spills out on to the streets, it may be time for the country to rethink its all-powerful presidency
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
The novelist Petina Gappah on a group of writers who put a fresh, modern vision of Africa out into the world
What can we learn from studying thousands of years of humanity’s response to natural disasters?
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
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
The writer Elif Shafak on a natural disaster compounded by man-made greed and corruption
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
Seventy-five years after his assassination, the ‘father of the nation’ is a problem for Narendra Modi — but the country still needs his ideas
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?
As the sport’s most decorated players bow out, a behind-the-scenes docuseries aims to bring the game to a new generation
With the era of easy money at an end, who will be the winners and losers — and can we expect any blue birds?
Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhed tells the story of two scientists caught up in the conflict and reflects on its agonising impact on his homeland
Six months after relocating from London, the former FT columnist has a new perspective on what really matters
Gideon Rachman on the good, the bad and the Messi of Qatar 2022
The climate activists know their tactics make people angry — and they believe that’s a price worth paying
From Václav Havel to Ai Weiwei, writers and artists have led the way in the fight for human rights
The strain on those hoping to cross the Channel from France is intensifying — so why does the UK still exert such a pull?
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
Camilla Cavendish talks to hosts and guests whose lives have been changed by Homes for Ukraine — and finds clues to future immigration policy
Why a digital record of the kingdom’s looted treasures marks a new era in the battle to reclaim its history
We thought globalisation was immune from geopolitical risk. We were wrong
Can Britain’s new line of kings hold the union and Commonwealth together?
From post-Soviet freedoms to resurgent autocracy: a historian reflects on the plight of Russia’s beleaguered intelligentsia
What is it about ‘The Lord of the Rings’ that inspires such fannish devotion — and such huge investments?
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