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    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
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      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
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      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

    • 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

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
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      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

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
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      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

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
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      What makes a whistleblower?

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

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
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      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
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      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?

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
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      Hamnet reborn: a pandemic bestseller moves from page to stage

      Maggie O’Farrell’s retelling of the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare struck a chord when it was published in March 2020 — and now it’s coming to the RSC

    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      ‘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
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      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

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