Miranda Green | Financial Times

Wednesday, 28 September, 2022

Monday, 12 September, 2022

Office life

Don’t be indispensable at work — it’s a terrible trap

Making people dependent on you may seem a clever idea, but it creates problems for you, your bosses and colleagues

Friday, 15 July, 2022

ReviewFiction

Ancestry by Simon Mawer — out of the ordinary

A novel that blends fact and fiction brings to life the voices of the author’s working-class forebears

Saturday, 9 July, 2022

Boris Johnson

Dear Prime Minister . . . the art of an epistolary execution

The avalanche of resignation letters, however cliché-ridden, proved fatal for a doomed premier

Friday, 24 June, 2022

FT MagazineGardens

Gardening’s great, unless you’re my plants

What is the name for having the opposite of green fingers?

Sunday, 8 May, 2022

Managing yourself

Virtue at work is never its own reward: celebrate with a treat

Whether it’s recording achievements, taking a bow or just having a biscuit, it helps to mark a job well done.

Friday, 29 April, 2022

UK politics & policy

The great British policy bodge

Ministers’ rickety plans for how to tackle the cost-of-living crisis would not pass their MOT

Thursday, 24 March, 2022

Education

Harsh lessons on Covid catch-up for England’s schools

Widening equality gaps, a mental health crisis and missing children are a grim backdrop to imminent white paper

Friday, 25 February, 2022

FT Magazine

Cancer, Covid and me

How far back will the pandemic set cancer treatment in the UK?

Tuesday, 25 January, 2022

Visual Arts

An East London night school that built an artistic movement

Millions of ‘lost learners’ in the austerity decade missed the opportunity offered to working class painters in the 1920s

Wednesday, 29 December, 2021

Coronavirus pandemic

Year in a Word: Booster

The question of whose immunity matters hangs in the air as rich nations roll out third Covid jabs

Friday, 17 December, 2021

Fashion

Sex and the City’s makeover is a manifesto for growing old (dis)gracefully

I’m ageing along with these characters: is the new series grotesque, or praiseworthy defiance from older women?

Thursday, 25 November, 2021

Labour Party UK

Labour battles over its own history hoping for ‘1945 and all that’

Boris Johnson, a would-be Churchill, stumbles, while Keir Starmer dreams of repeating Clement Attlee’s postwar victory

Monday, 25 October, 2021

Pollution

MPs create a stink on England’s coasts with environment vote

A backlash is building over the government’s refusal to clampdown on sewage overflows

Thursday, 16 September, 2021

Demographics and population

Could love of Abba help generations take a chance on unity?

Sharing culture can help narrow the divide between age groups

Thursday, 16 September, 2021

ReviewFiction

Making Nice by Ferdinand Mount — down the No 10 rabbit hole

A satire by Thatcher’s former speechwriter trips through the corridors of power and reflects on the outrageous characters that make their living there

Thursday, 13 May, 2021

ReviewFiction

Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath — Franco’s ghost in a Lambeth garden

The dictator’s ghost lurks among an ageing poet’s hydrangeas in McGrath’s latest tale of a 20th-century haunting

Thursday, 4 February, 2021

ReviewFiction

The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter — rebellion against inequality

A timely study of individuals living through the tumultuous Spokane Free Speech riots of 1909

Wednesday, 16 December, 2020

UK business & economy

Grandma’s lessons from the shop floor

Workers in retail have individual talents and skills and should not be herded by policymakers

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

News in-depthBrexit26 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

News in-depthBrexit27 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

Boris Johnson can’t afford to squander trust by protecting Dominic Cummings

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

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