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Simon Kuper

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Simon Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994. He wrote the daily currencies column, before leaving the FT in 1998. He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has been there ever since. Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Democracies need to work quicker and smarter. Here’s what that might look like 

    Politicians often reach the right answer — but years too late

  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    FT MagazineWorking from home
    Bosses won’t like it but WFH is a happier way to work

    Homeworking is not just a corporate issue, it’s a chance to create a better society

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    FT MagazineUK
    Britain’s dawning self-awareness

    The nation has realised what it is: a small country that needs immigrants, high taxes and European allies

  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    We should pity (some of) the incels

    Beyond the dangerous misogynists there’s a growing group of unseen incels who live in harmless but frustrated misery

  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    FT MagazineUS presidential election 2024
    The biggest risk to US democracy? You’ve probably never heard of them

    The threat that a third party could swing the 2024 election is barely discussed

  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    Football
    Now is football’s moment to change

    The scandal over a non-consensual kiss by Luis Rubiales needs to be an ‘enough’ moment

    Protesters demand the resignation of Luis Rubiales at a rally in Madrid. Female footballers’ voices are being heard — they don’t have to take it anymore
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    House & Home
    A laboratory of solar energy gives Lyon its moment in the sun

    A boom in residential panel installations is fuelling large-scale projects in French cities

    Illustration of house with solar panels on the roof receiving energy from the sun
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Answered Prayers — how England’s 1966 team delivered on Ramsey’s words

    Duncan Hamilton’s book, based on interviews with the footballers and their often prickly manager, aims to place the World Cup victory in a fresh light

  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    Working It podcast16 min listen
    Shared workspaces are growing up

    Ping-pong tables and beer-on-tap are out. Privacy is in

  • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Israel and the US are battling identity crises

    Could they both end with the dismantling of democracy?

  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The red-hot issue in the Spanish elections should be climate, not culture wars

    The results offered an insight into how voting changes once climate change becomes a ‘now’ problem: it doesn’t

  • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
    Work & Careers
    Out of office: the rise of the ‘workcation’

    Companies including Google and American Express are allowing staff to work from their holiday locations

    A person in holiday clothing looks at a monitor, with a view of mountains behind it
  • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
    Women in business
    Women in football fail to score top jobs off the pitch

    Female tournaments are generating record interest but the sport is still overwhelmingly run by men

    Lise Klaveness, president of Norway’s football federation, during training before Spain v Norway UEFA Qualifiers, Euro 2020 at Estadio Mestalla in 2019 in Valencia, Spain
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    It may not feel like it, but the planet has many reasons to be cheerful

    Energy generation, health and working life could all transform for the better this decade

    An illustration of the Earth cracked open, with an egg spilling out from it – the yolk has a smiling face
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    House & Home
    How I made my perfect office

    After three months of renovations, the FT’s Simon Kuper has turned his little Parisian work flat into the ideal space to write and think

    Simon sits reading papers by a wooden desk with drawers and pale green bookshelves above
  • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    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

    Hundreds of people gather around a fountain in Rome
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Inside the secret world of the authors’ club

    What goes on when the people in ‘the world’s worst business’ get together?

  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    News in-depthNews in-depth2 min
    Messi vs Ronaldo: measuring greatness | FT Scoreboard

    What is the legacy of Messi and Ronaldo – and can either of them claim to be the greatest?

    Messi vs Ronaldo: who won?
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Hope for the Parisian suburbs

    The banlieues have seen riots in recent weeks but there are reasons for optimism

  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    FT MagazineClimate change
    How will climate change affect the holiday map?

    For many well-off people, the first tangible effect of rising temperatures will be a shift in vacation destination

  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Best summer books of 2023: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads

    book cover montage
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    FT MagazineRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
    Another five years with Turkey’s not-so-strong strongman

    Beyond the bravado, Erdoğan is an opportunist who prizes power above ideology

  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge

    US colleges could make themselves more meritocratic — but do they want to?

  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    Champions League
    European football has become a status competition between Gulf monarchies

    Middle Eastern money will keep shaping the game after Manchester City’s Champions League win

    Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan lifts the trophy as he celebrates with teammates after winning the Champions League
  • Saturday, 10 June, 2023
    Champions League
    Manchester City celebrate historic treble after beating Inter Milan

    Manager Pep Guardiola’s team takes third trophy of the season with Champions League victory in Istanbul

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