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Miranda Green

Deputy opinion editor

Miranda Green has served as a UK and world news editor for the Financial Times, and has been the paper’s education and political correspondent. She helped found  The Day to assist schools teaching current affairs to teenagers, and worked for the Liberal Democrat party in the House of Commons from 1995 to 2000. Miranda

was named Culture, Diary and Social Commentator of the Year in the 2018 Comment Awards.

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  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    In praise of going backwards

    What a car that wouldn’t reverse taught me about the pleasure of inconvenience

  • Friday, 10 July, 2020
    AnalysisUK politics & policy26 min
    Will Rishi Sunak succeed Boris Johnson?

    The FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green discuss the chancellor's 'brand'

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    FT SeriesA very different summer
    Lockdown’s ending and I still can’t finish the latest Hilary Mantel

    Miranda Green is weighed down by Thomas Cromwell’s impending doom in The Mirror and the Light

  • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
    UK schools
    As we reopen schools, focus on the already disadvantaged 

    Prolonged absence from classrooms will damage the chances of those pupils who find it hard to thrive

  • Friday, 12 June, 2020
    AnalysisBrexit27 min
    Road to Brexit: lockdown edition

    Robert and Miranda are back. Is rage against 'the blob' a viable strategy post-Brexit?

  • Monday, 25 May, 2020
    Conservative Party UK
    Johnson cannot afford to squander trust

    Governments tend to lose the public over time, but these few weeks could be a tipping point

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    The Glass Hotel — the downfall of a Madoff-style fraudster

    Emily St John Mandel’s novel asks what happens when the rich are cast out of the ‘kingdom of money’

  • Wednesday, 22 April, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Making a DIY drama out of the coronavirus crisis

    An army of hobbyists ride to the rescue as NHS protective garb supplies fail

  • Sunday, 15 March, 2020
    Office life
    The email bot: from chilly to overly chummy

    Escalating emotion and overuse of !!!! have crept into my work correspondence

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  • Wednesday, 11 March, 2020
    UK Budget
    A teetotal toast to preserve the union on Budget day

    Chancellor offers funds to help Scotland’s whisky industry and sweeteners for Wales

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
    London mayoral election
    London’s mayoral race is a springboard to the top job

    Yet a hustings last month saw candidates failing to attend, sending substitutes with patchy answers

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Labour’s new leader must be free to reinvent party

    Pledges that win rank-and-file support make it hard to manoeuvre back within the bounds of electability

  • Monday, 17 February, 2020
    Brexit29 min
    Will Brexit split the UK?

    What Boris Johnson can do to keep Scotland and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    People Like Us — how to vault across Britain’s class divide

    Hashi Mohamed’s journey from child refugee to UK barrister is too rare a story

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
    Brexit23 min
    Brexit Day: are we there yet?

    FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green on what Brexit Day means for the UK

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
    Labour Party UK
    Jess Phillips ‘coulda been a contender’

    Some of the MPs need to take a bloody nose, not a fall, for the sake of the party

  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    Electoral Shocks by the British Election Study

    An analysis that delivers lucid explanations of political disruption — and some stark warnings

  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2020
    AnalysisWorld27 min
    Who will win the Labour leadership race?

    FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green look at the five contenders

  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    Education
    The challenge of educating the left-behind boys

    In the UK, less than 10 per cent of poor white young men make it to university

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    UK general election
    Johnson’s promise of political stability is rash

    The UK prime minister’s election victory will not be enough to prevent further wrangling

  • Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
    Language and grammar
    Year in a word: Girly swot

    Boris Johnson’s slur has been successfully co-opted for the feminist cause

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    Social affairs
    Looking in envy at Finland’s social mobility pin-up PM

    US and UK leaders are left in the shade by Sanna Marin’s rise to the top

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    UK general election22 min
    What Boris Johnson's election win means for the UK

    FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green sketch out the political future

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    UK general election
    Corbyn’s outriders are shielding their leader from blame

    The question now is whether the hard left’s grip on Labour will be loosened

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
    UK general election20 min
    What Johnson and Corbyn are promising for the Brexit election

    The FT's Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green draw their political Christmas card

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