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    • 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?

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Salman Rushdie and the sacred right to irreverence

      Following the savage attack on the author, Simon Schama argues that disrespect is essential for democracy and that his friend’s fight for free expression is for us all

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      FT SeriesA year under the Taliban
      How we live now: Afghanistan’s women speak

      Over the course of a year of Taliban rule, a group of women writers share their thoughts, fears and dreams via a messaging app

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The anxious generation — what’s bothering Britain’s schoolchildren?

      As her students await their A-level results, Lucy Kellaway reports on what schools are doing to tackle a mental health crisis

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      A whole new world? Disney after ‘Don’t Say Gay’

      The entertainment giant’s bungled response to a controversial Florida bill has raised difficult questions for its LGBT+ fans

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Inside Ukraine’s open-source war

      Digital networks are helping Ukraine resist the Russian invasion. Will they also reshape the future of conflict?

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Is Britain tiring of the culture wars?

      Brexit was supposed to have left the country bitterly divided. But Henry Mance finds identity battles losing their grip on the national conversation

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Should artists have a stake in their own work?

      The resurgent $65bn art market has led to rampant speculation around the work of young artists — who see little of the profit

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Have we had enough of the nanny employer?

      Companies pushed hard to attend to workers’ needs during the pandemic. But have they encroached too far into our personal lives?

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