Lucy Kellaway | Financial Times

Friday, 9 September, 2022

Friday, 2 September, 2022

Is there life after London? Why Lucy Kellaway left after 63 years

What possessed Lucy Kellaway, a self-confessed ‘caricature Londoner’, to move to northern England?

Friday, 5 August, 2022

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

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022

Career change

Four big lessons for getting the most out of a career change

Quitting journalism to start again as a 50-something teacher taught the value of timing and being radical

Wednesday, 19 January, 2022

Travel

Can Cliveden’s CBD spa cure insomniac Lucy Kellaway?

A new ‘sleep experience’ at the historic English hotel promises to ‘re-energize and rejuvenate’ guests

Friday, 14 January, 2022

The Weekend Essay

Why is it still considered OK to be ageist?

Lucy Kellaway on an unspoken prejudice — and a puzzling discrimination against our future selves

Friday, 19 November, 2021

FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

Crypto in the classroom: Lucy Kellaway on the kids’ new craze

In an age when trading apps have made investment cool, understanding money is more important than ever for school children

Tuesday, 14 September, 2021

FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign4 min

How to achieve financial literacy

Patrick Jenkins, FT deputy editor, introduces the mission of the FT's Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (Flic)

Monday, 9 August, 2021

Managing yourself

Necessary but corrosive: Lucy Kellaway on ambition

The former FT journalist was brought up to despise aspiration. Now she considers it a good thing, but it must be proportionate

Friday, 30 July, 2021

Life & Arts

The summer that changed my life

From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them

Wednesday, 7 July, 2021

ReviewBiography and memoir

Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway — an absorbing and delightful tale

The former FT journalist writes with warmth and wit, turning her teaching experience into a frank discussion about the role of schools

Friday, 2 July, 2021

The Weekend Essay

Can you change yourself? Lucy Kellaway on the reality of reinvention

As the pandemic prompts millions to reconsider their life choices, FT columnist-turned-teacher offers the benefit of her experience

Wednesday, 10 March, 2021

ReviewFT Books Essay

Beyond Order, by Jordan Peterson — more orders from chaos

The culture warrior and YouTube philosopher comes across as an earnest preacher in his life-coaching sequel

Friday, 5 March, 2021

The Weekend Essay

Lucy Kellaway: what is the point of schools?

After a year of Covid disruption, it is time to rethink our attitude to education

Friday, 19 February, 2021

Management

Telling staff to ‘buck up’ breaks management’s golden rule

Reprimanding miserable employees during lockdown is bound to backfire

Friday, 18 September, 2020

The best of the FT Weekend Festival 202052 sec

James Suzman: 'In the 20th century, the office became the village'

The death of the office - and our home-working future - with Lucy Kellaway, Andrew Hill and James Suzman

Friday, 11 September, 2020

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway heads back to school — anxiously

After a sleepless night, a return to her classroom in an east London comprehensive brings reasons for concern — and delight

Friday, 10 July, 2020

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway: what my students have taught me about race

In an east London classroom, the realities of racism come sharply into focus

Friday, 15 May, 2020

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway: We will miss the office if it dies

As an FT columnist she skewered office culture — but, she argues, it is something to treasure

Friday, 10 April, 2020

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway: Is it OK to be happy in lockdown?

So long as I don’t look at the news, my stress levels are as low as I can remember

Thursday, 19 March, 2020

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway: tackling coronavirus in the classroom

The FT columnist turned teacher is trying to keep a cool head — but it gets harder by the day

Friday, 27 December, 2019

Life & Arts

Lucy Kellaway — don’t worry less, worry smarter

Fretting too much is no fun but there’s an upside to feeling anxious

Wednesday, 25 December, 2019

FT CollectionsClimate change

Best of our weekend letters 2019

From climate change and Kylie Jenner’s wealth to sex strikes and Lucy Kellaway’s maths

Friday, 9 August, 2019

ReviewNon-Fiction

Semicolon by Cecelia Watson — a mark of distinction

Lucy Kellaway reads about how the semicolon has been decried for too long; time for a reappraisal

Friday, 12 July, 2019

Best of FT Weekend long reads 2019

Lucy Kellaway on turning 60 — and starting out afresh

From work to dating, the life of an ‘aged adolescent’ is neither slow nor predictable

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