Marriage Story: a slow, painful story of a slow, painful divorce
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver give the film its weight, movingly demonstrating a couple’s love for one another even as…
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How Britain was sold
Critics love the Crown – but is it just a soap opera in posh clothing?
The nation’s TV critics seemingly find themselves utterly unable to resist the series. Time to break ranks, I think.
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The irresistible story of Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen
As a radio doc on the BBC World Service reveals, Nansen was both an explorer and activist who won…
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First Thoughts: The FT’s first female editor, the launch of the Critic, and the tuneless Welsh
Lebanon-born Roula Khalaf is set to succeed Lionel Barber at the paper.
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Esther Duflo: “Even politicians now realise how mistaken austerity was”
The Nobel-winning economist on why Brexit happened, Emmanuel Macron’s errors and Donald Trump’s political genius.
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Commons Confidential: The moulting Prime Minister
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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What comes after the end of history
Politics is a battle over time.
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Tracy Chevalier Q&A: “I genuinely have no idea who to vote for“
The novelist talks The Simpsons, Barack Obama, and a love of trees.
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Edie’s vision was clouded with white lights – and her doctors were blind to the problem
I had every sympathy with Edie’s GP and optician – it was a very strange symptom.
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How London’s “nose to tail” eatery St John became an institution
Now 25 years old, St John is still “perhaps the most famous and influential restaurant in London”, according to Eater…
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Amsterdam: Van Gogh’s wet paint under a microscope, and the world’s most silent tourists
As if all this emotion isn’t enough, the next day I visit the Anne Frank Museum. The experience is…
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If you want to meet beautiful women, carry a theatre programme around on the Tube
Wandering around London with a theatre programme marks you out as the kind of guy it’s OK to approach…
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Liverpool’s origin tale is one of triumph against the odds – so where do they go when they’re winning?
The only team left who can beat them is themselves.
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New York Notebook: Big backers for Bernie, billionaire maths – and why US capitalism ain’t what it used to be
Sanders now seems to be gaining support in some early primaries. How far can he go?
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In the old monetary world markets created constraints, but now there is no sense of where the limits lie
Corbyn won the leadership because his opponents, saturated in New Labour culture, had nothing to say about his ideological…
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Peter Oborne’s Diary: Boris Johnson’s NHS lies, my bulging dossier of deceit, and Sunday Times suppression
Johnson says that he’s going to build 40 new hospitals but in reality only six have been allocated sufficient…
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We used to see international travel as a force for good – but the climate crisis has changed that
More free time and less financial hardship would mean that holidays would cease to be the only source of…
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Spain’s weak governments and a rising far right mark not a return to the past but a new political era
The troubling shifts of recent years have all made Spain more, not less, like the rest of the continent.
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Jeremy Corbyn hates fixing Labour selections. So why is he doing it?
The answer is in the opinion polls.
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Leader: The end of national capitalism
No other major Western country has allowed so many of its strategic industries, assets and pre-eminent companies to fall…
By Liverpool’s origin tale is one of triumph against the odds – so where do they go when they’re winning?
The only team left who can beat them is themselves.
By New York Notebook: Big backers for Bernie, billionaire maths – and why US capitalism ain’t what it used to be
Sanders now seems to be gaining support in some early primaries. How far can he go?
By In the old monetary world markets created constraints, but now there is no sense of where the limits lie
Corbyn won the leadership because his opponents, saturated in New Labour culture, had nothing to say about his ideological…
By Peter Oborne’s Diary: Boris Johnson’s NHS lies, my bulging dossier of deceit, and Sunday Times suppression
Johnson says that he’s going to build 40 new hospitals but in reality only six have been allocated sufficient…
By We used to see international travel as a force for good – but the climate crisis has changed that
More free time and less financial hardship would mean that holidays would cease to be the only source of…
By First Thoughts: The FT’s first female editor, the launch of the Critic, and the tuneless Welsh
Lebanon-born Roula Khalaf is set to succeed Lionel Barber at the paper.
By Marriage Story: a slow, painful story of a slow, painful divorce
Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver give the film its weight, movingly demonstrating a couple’s love for one another even as…
By Critics love the Crown – but is it just a soap opera in posh clothing?
The nation’s TV critics seemingly find themselves utterly unable to resist the series. Time to break ranks, I think.
By Esther Duflo: “Even politicians now realise how mistaken austerity was”
The Nobel-winning economist on why Brexit happened, Emmanuel Macron’s errors and Donald Trump’s political genius.
By How London’s “nose to tail” eatery St John became an institution
Now 25 years old, St John is still “perhaps the most famous and influential restaurant in London”, according to Eater…
By If you want to meet beautiful women, carry a theatre programme around on the Tube
Wandering around London with a theatre programme marks you out as the kind of guy it’s OK to approach…
By Amsterdam: Van Gogh’s wet paint under a microscope, and the world’s most silent tourists
As if all this emotion isn’t enough, the next day I visit the Anne Frank Museum. The experience is…
By Edie’s vision was clouded with white lights – and her doctors were blind to the problem
I had every sympathy with Edie’s GP and optician – it was a very strange symptom.
By What comes after the end of history
Politics is a battle over time.
By Commons Confidential: The moulting Prime Minister
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
By Tracy Chevalier Q&A: “I genuinely have no idea who to vote for“
The novelist talks The Simpsons, Barack Obama, and a love of trees.
By Spain’s weak governments and a rising far right mark not a return to the past but a new political era
The troubling shifts of recent years have all made Spain more, not less, like the rest of the continent.
By Jeremy Corbyn hates fixing Labour selections. So why is he doing it?
The answer is in the opinion polls.
By Leader: The end of national capitalism
No other major Western country has allowed so many of its strategic industries, assets and pre-eminent companies to fall…
By The irresistible story of Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen
As a radio doc on the BBC World Service reveals, Nansen was both an explorer and activist who won…
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