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  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Travel
    Horizon 22 trumps the Shard to become London’s highest viewpoint

    The 58th-floor viewing gallery opens today, the latest in a swath of new lookouts high above the City

  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End

    From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground

    The Audley Public House in Mayfair, London: a Victorian-style pub with an orange, pink and blue ceiling painted by the late Phyllida Barlow
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    HTSI
    Cult Shop: Bloomsbury’s connoisseurs of colour

    L Cornelissen & Son has been supplying artists and printmakers hues since 1855

    The Bloomsbury shopfront of L Cornelissen & Son
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
    Enter the ring – the quest for the perfect bagel

    When photographer Dan Martensen failed to find his favourite New York-style in London, he founded a bakery to make the things himself

    A poppy-seed bagel with The Works (schmear, lox, red onions and capers)
  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    FT SeriesFT Magazine’s London design special 2023
    What to see at the London Design Festival

    Thrones, pianos and enormous cork sculptures on the Strand: six highlights for your festival calendar

  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    In the footsteps of . . .
    Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley

    The past chimes with the present on a walk through the landscape that, the author wrote in 1934, offers ‘everything a man can possibly want’

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    FT Globetrotter’s guide to the FTWeekend Festival

    Everything you need to make the most of September 2 — the hottest ticket in town — and where to head afterwards

  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterCharting London’s museums
    A conflicted walk through London’s Imperial War Museum

    Challenging exhibits interwoven with personal stories make this museum a must-visit for an FT graphic artist

  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    Travelista
    Four fantasy escapes in the UK

    Cabins and cottages, from Suffolk to the Scottish Highlands

    A Kabn Company cabin on the shores of Loch Fyne
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Visual feasts: five of London’s best gallery restaurants

    Move over dry scones. A fine-dining revolution has taken the capital’s major art institutions by storm

    From left: ‘Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas)’, (1626-28) by Frans Hals. A selection of dishes on a table at Spring
  • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #26: Down House, Home of Charles Darwin

    The naturalist’s ‘very ugly’ south London abode offers an insight into his genial family life and continuing experiments

  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Travel & leisure industry
    Britons look to southern Europe for cheaper summer holidays

    Tourism groups say choice of destinations and growth of package deals reflect people’s keenness to maximise budgets

    Tourists waiting for the sunset in Santorini, Greece
  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Splashing out: FT Globetrotter’s summer swimming guide

    The best places for a dip in and around our destination cities, from lake swimming in Zürich to Rome’s closest beaches — via London’s best hotel pools

    A woman diving into a swimming pool wearing a red swimsuit.
  • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Grass roots: a slice of history at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum

    Step through a portal to the tournament’s past that puts the action on the courts in fascinating context

    A black and white photo of French player Suzanne Lenglen competing at Wimbledon in 1926
  • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
    FT Magazine
    My love letter to one of London’s last ‘pint pubs’

    Amid the cost-of-drinking crisis, only a few wet-led pubs have kept their doors open. What’s their secret? 

  • Saturday, 8 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    The FT Globetrotter tennis quiz: how well do you know your Wimbledon?

    Love all, or game, set and match to you? Put your SW19 Grand Slam knowledge to the test

    A general view of Centre Court shows  Nick Kyrgios returning the ball to Novak Djokovic during their men’s singles final tennis match on the fourteenth day of the 2022 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, southwest London, on July 10, 2022
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Waiting for Wimbledon: the 100-year-old queue that defines Britishness, for better or worse

    Never have so many behaved so politely, braving torrential rain, sleep deprivation and a 10pm curfew on takeaway deliveries. Tales from a Very British Queue . . .  

    People in the queue for Wimbledon in Wimbledon Park, with a man lying asleep on the grass beside them
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    FT MagazineTim Hayward
    The Pelican, London: utterly lovely gastropubbery — review

    Some food pubs get away with doing the bare minimum. Notting Hill’s The Pelican does the opposite

  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Cream of the crop: where to enjoy strawberry season in London

    Nothing says Wimbledon and British summertime like this glorious berry. As well as the classic cream combo, here’s where to find the capital’s most creative concoctions

    A bowl of strawberries with almonds and green marzipan stalks at Claridge’s
  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Wimbledon spirit: five of the area’s best pubs

    Missed out on tickets? Catch a match from the comfort of these characterful nearby drinking holes that are all celebrating the tournament

    The Crown & Rose pub’s terrace
  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    First service: where to watch the tennis in style

    Some of the smartest spots in the capital for that Centre Court buzz, from an Art Deco icon on the King’s Road to a pontoon floating in the shadow of Tower Bridge

    Watching the tennis from the steps of Granary Square, King’s Cross
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    FT live news
    Live news update from July 4: Thames Water faces ‘huge resistance’ from investors, seven injured in attack in Tel Aviv
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Wimbledon 2023: the favourites, the ones to watch and the new faces

    FT Globetrotter sits down with experts from ‘The Tennis Podcast’ to get the inside scoop on this year’s hopefuls

  • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The wonder of Wimbledon

    FT Globetrotter celebrates the world’s greatest Grand Slam — and where to get in on the action

  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The best Japanese restaurants around the world

    Nikkei correspondents reveal their favourite places to find their home country’s cuisine at its very best

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