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  • Thursday, 21 October, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Inside the John Lewis nightmare

    Millennials aren’t feeling it. Middle England is shopping around. Can the retailer shake itself up?

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
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    The end of convenience might not be such a bad thing

    An economy less obsessed with choice and instant gratification would help us ride out the storms

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    InterviewHouse & Home
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    The designer on her misconstrued aesthetic, ‘huge’ misinformation over the Downing Street refit — and why she loves John Lewis

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    AI algorithms can accurately predict rainfall but there are downsides to knowing everything

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    From sibling squabbles to inheritance infighting, the HBO series has a rich history of familial strife on which to draw

  • Saturday, 25 September, 2021
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    Cush Jumbo on Hamlet, The Good Fight and not backing down

    She lit up the screen in CBS’s hit drama. As she takes to the stage in London, she talks to Henry Mance about success and her own good fight

  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    UK agriculture
    No turkey at Christmas is the least of our poultry problems

    Having a fixed expectation of what food we should eat is historically and environmentally illiterate

  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
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    Steven Van Zandt: ‘In a band you need a benevolent dictatorship’

    As he publishes his memoir, the guitarist and actor talks Springsteen, The Sopranos and why he doesn’t want to be the boss

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    UK politics & policy
    When it comes to incompetence, sometimes a reshuffle isn’t enough

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  • Friday, 3 September, 2021
    Extinction Rebellion
    Extinction Rebellion may be annoying but it has a vital function

    Despite its missteps, the group reflects public concern about climate change

  • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
    Travel
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    Book Towns are thriving around the world but Wigtown in Scotland goes one better, giving visitors the keys to their own shop

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    A Brief History of Motion — why we really do need to reinvent the wheel

    Tom Standage’s survey of transport shines a light on our addiction to cars and ponders a future that reins them in

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
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    Sarah Ferguson: ‘It has been hard putting myself above the parapet’

    The Duchess of York on her rollercoaster royal life — and why Prince Andrew is her ‘pillar of strength’

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    Global warming is the defining issue of our times, but among policymakers there is no urgency

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    While some welcome end of most Covid restrictions, others are fearful about rising infections

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    Space exploration
    Branson, Bezos and the pointless billionaire space race

    Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Andrew Lloyd Webber: ‘I don’t feel like a Conservative at the moment’

    The composer’s £60m theatre restoration is complete and Cinderella, his new musical, is about to open. So why isn’t he happier?

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  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
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