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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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  • 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

  • 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
    From chilly to chummy: email reply bot overdoes the personal touch

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

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

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