FT Weekend columns of 2017Catch up on our top commentary from Jo Ellison, Robert Shrimsley, Gillian Tett, Janan Ganesh, Simon Kuper and moreBrexit and the great Irish granny grab‘It seems strange that there are not more businesses devoted to the task of finding my lost Hibernian ancestors’A Japanese lesson for Wall StreetThe humbling tale of the bankers who felt ashamed of the system’s failureThe problem with English‘Foreign countries are opaque to mostly monolingual Britons and Americans. Foreigners know us much better than we know them’The charm of Mme Macron: a little bit of Essex in the Elysée PalaceBrigitte Trogneux brings a welcome revolution to the sober style of the world’s First Wives ClubForget the ‘creatives’ — management makes the world go roundThe cult runs into trouble when it demotes the practical in favour of defining creativity as the highest skillThe Brexit monomania built on blind faithGolding’s ‘The Spire’ offers eerie parallels with Britain’s withdrawal from the EUMore from this SeriesSave us from this smart-casual hellThe satanic hybrid of a blazer worn with jeans proves men everywhere have lost the style plotBada boom! A tale of an exploding frogI suffered a Tony Soprano moment when the wrong sort of frog invaded my wildlife pondDiversity means looking for the knife in a drawerful of spoonsSuch a team offers less a rainbow of attributes and more a toolkit of varied skillsRichard Thaler: how to change minds and influence peopleThe story of how a ‘lazy’ man won a Nobel Prize is as important as what he won it forHow to dress like a Supreme Leader‘In Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un’s tailor cut me a ‘Kim’ suit: medium brown in colour with slightly flared trousers’Uber: the triumph of wallet over spirit‘I am quietly pleased London has taken a stand because, frankly, I wasn’t going to’Why British banter gets lost in translationThe rest of the world is not always charmed by Britons’ caustic conversationCan we reset fashion’s moral compass?In an industry that pushes the boundaries of taste, how do we draw the line on issues of sexual impropriety?Beware the Tory cult that’s steering Brexit‘The difficulty of Brexiting is part of the appeal: only a great tribe can renew itself through sacrifice’Harvey Weinstein and the naked truth about HollywoodThe movie magnate is part of a culture in which we’re all complicitHow to deal with uncomfortable silences at a dinner party‘I must confess that whenever I check on a lulling silence, it is always 20 to or 20 past the hour’August: the month of class anxiety‘Jockeying among the elites did not always seem such a contemptible topic. From the 19th to mid-20th centuries, great novels turned on it’Why we all need more philosophy in our livesA new prize recognises the importance of philosophical ideas
