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  • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
    Sport
    Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi: who was the greatest footballer?

    As their ‘beautiful rivalry’ comes to an end, which of these sporting superstars emerges the winner?

  • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    What makes a whistleblower?

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

  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    Life & Arts
    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
    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
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: life for Ukrainians
    ‘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

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