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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

The best books of the week
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-depthUK 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
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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
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
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

News in-depthWorld27 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
Boris Johnson’s promise of political stability is a rash one
The UK prime minister’s election victory will not be enough to prevent further wrangling