The People of the v. McNeal

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Borderlands

The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe

...An EU-wide survey in 2021 found that 73 per cent of Portuguese people felt that the integration of immigrants in their local area was successful, well above the EU average of 42 per cent....

April 19, 2024

ReviewPhotography

Photo City exhibition review — photography and the metropolis in conversation at V&A Dundee

...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...

April 11, 2024

Menswear

V-necks are back

...“Like most people I am really into The Row at the moment and their ribbed take on this style is really easy to wear with jeans, or layered over a striped shirt with a loose-fit trouser.”...

April 8, 2024

Architecture

Tropical Modernism at the V&A — the architects who built a postcolonial future

...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....

March 1, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

ReviewTheatre

James V: Katherine, Edinburgh review — exceptional entry in Rona Munro’s Scottish history series

...Munro’s play imagines the conversations — between Patrick and Katherine, between Katherine and the court, between Katherine and James V....

April 12, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...HFEA data shows that in 2020-21 the average age of people freezing their eggs was 35....

March 23, 2024

Chess

Chess: Half a century on, Fischer v Spassky at Reykjavik still echoes

...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....

March 11, 2024

InterviewVisual Arts

Artist Outi Pieski: ‘The world speaks to me through the details’

...In recent years some significant collections of items belonging to the Sámi people have been rehoused in their place of origin, including at the Sámi Museum Siida, in the Finnish village of Inari, where...

April 1, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: Am I the asshole?

...I am afraid the same is true of all those people who write in to journalists for advice on their lives....

April 5, 2024

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

David Willer

To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’

...Too often, fish isn’t feeding people — it’s being fed to other fish. Today over 11 per cent of the total wild fish catch — 12.6mn tonnes — is fed to farmed fish instead of to humans....

April 3, 2024

FT Alphaville

The Bank of England is still v v worried about Treasury basis trades

...The Bank of England’s financial stability committee met today, and the subsequent report indicates that it remains antsy about the engorged size of Treasury basis trades....

December 6, 2023

Pilita Clark

Has the push for female equality gone too far?

...This month, the people of Ireland did something shocking. They voted overwhelmingly not to boost female equality....

March 17, 2024

Travel

The Copenhagen canalside hotel on a mission to bring people together

...together 364 days of the year (on New Year’s Eve, it holds a party for the people who work there instead)....

April 3, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The real quandary of AI isn’t what people think

...This week, I’d like to suggest a final precursor: the iPhone. When Steve Jobs launched the genre-defining iPhone in 2007, few people imagined just how ubiquitous smartphones would become....

February 16, 2024

FT Magazine

The young people sifting through the internet’s worst horrors

...With job prospects dire in South Africa, where one in two young people is out of work, she took the plunge....

January 11, 2024

Chess

World No 1 v world champion: Carlsen and Ding to meet this weekend

...Puzzle 2558 Samuel Sevian v Wojciech Przybylski, Titled Tuesday 2021. White to move and win. Click here for solution...

February 5, 2024

Technology

FTAV’s further reading

...(TikTok v Rusty Foster) — The case for building homes on some of London’s 95 golf courses (Notes on Growth) — AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?...

April 18, 2024

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...“The officials tend to be mostly all Old Masters people,” says Anna Somers Cocks, the founder-editor of The Art Newspaper, who has long called for the reform of Italy’s art-export laws....

March 2, 2024

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