Israel, Lebanon and the mirage of a new Middle East
Lebanese academic and diplomat Ghassan Salamé on how conflict engulfed his country — and why it is folly to try to reshape ...
The Canadian comedian who became China’s most famous foreigner
Breaking through on state-backed television in the late 1980s and 1990s, he was the first foreigner to be initiated into ...
The royal hotel creating a buzz on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast
The country’s Atlantic resorts are better known — but now the king’s Royal Mansour Tamuda Bay is drawing eyes to the Med ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — Election denialism is still in style
This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Election denialism is still in style’ ...
New experiments in grape growing
Grape breeders have been experimenting with crossing and hybridising vines for at least a couple of centuries, notably in ...
In search of art without an argument
The main character in Coriolanus, which is on at the National Theatre in London, is what we would nowadays call a fascist. He ...
‘Nobody Wants This’ and the new agelessness of man
Netflix’s hit romantic comedy reflects a world in which wrinkles, offices and children are slowly being obliterated ...
Airlines bet on food and art to lure flyers back to ageing premium cabins
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UK fuel duty rise would rekindle inflation, warn motoring groups
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Transcript: Cabinet fightback — the revolt over spending
This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Cabinet fightback — the revolt over spending’ Lucy Fisher ...
Fintechs are literally passing the buck to private credit
Fintechs arose from the beliefs that the basic function of banks could be upended with technology, nimbleness and regulatory ...
How George Orwell became a dead metaphor
How is it that Orwell has become the single answer to so many questions, in so many different subjects, for so many people? His name conjures an amorphous idea of fair play and “common sense”; his ...