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  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Life & Arts
    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
    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

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