• January 29 2026
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  The ‘Little West’ takes on the new world order

   Terrified into co-operation by outside threats, a surprisingly solid bloc is emerging

  
• January 22 2026
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  How Trump turned international relations into a real-estate game

  With his Greenland obsession, the US president is reviving a national tradition: expansion via land grabs

  
• January 17 2026
  Football

  Afcon and the power of a footballing diaspora

  A compelling tournament has shown the importance of players — and fans — raised outside Africa

  
• January 15 2026
  FT MagazineEurope

  The impotence of Europe’s governing elite

  From Brussels to Moldova, the men in blue suits know they’re in trouble. But what are they going to do about it?

  
• January 14 2026
  InterviewBooks

  French writer Édouard Louis: ‘Family is a rotten structure. It produces its own violence’

  The gay author shocked France with stories of working-class poverty and homophobia. He talks to Simon Kuper about the misogyny his mother endured and why escape is his defining theme

  
• January 8 2026
  US politics & policy

  Defining Donald Trump

  The US leader is often called a fascist but he represents a different kind of political authoritarianism  

  
• December 18 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  Europe’s second-class citizens

  Countries that looked down on the Gulf’s ‘kafala’ system are edging closer to creating their own

  
• December 11 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  Who needs a priest when you have a chatbot?

  The morphing of religion from communal activity into private pursuit goes one step further

  
• November 28 2025
  Travel

  The joy of World Cup travel

  Next week’s draw for the 2026 World Cup will reveal who’s playing who and where. Simon Kuper — a veteran of nine tournaments — explains why the event is the perfect travel opportunity

  
• November 27 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  How flattery became a big, beautiful industry

  Never before have there been so many rich people to be boosted

  
• November 20 2025
  The best books of the year 2025

  The best sport, health and wellness books of 2025

  Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their must-read titles

  
• November 20 2025
  FT MagazineEkrem İmamoğlu

  The man who weakened strongman Erdoğan

  Jailing Turkey’s opposition leader hasn’t stopped him looking like the country’s president in waiting

  
• November 13 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  How democrats can fight back

  Fifty years after Franco’s death, autocracy is going strong

  
• November 8 2025
  Travel

  Swap Paris and Rome for one of these alternative autumn city breaks

  From Regensburg to Modica, these autumn getaways offer culture, cuisine — and none of the crowds

  
• November 7 2025
  At Home with the FT

  Britain’s new ambassador to France: ‘You all play the game of influence’

  Mere weeks into the job, ‘securocrat’ Sir Thomas Drew has positioned Paris’s 18th-century Hôtel de Charost as ‘an informal annex to formal discussions at the Élysée’. It’s no small feat

  
• November 6 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  What makes a bad book

  Over decades of reading and reviewing, these three are the worst I have seen

  
• October 30 2025
  FT MagazineSport

  How sport unites us

  In a divided world, fandom is a social superpower

  
• October 29 2025
  FT GlobetrotterSpooky cities

  Dead famous: The ghosts of Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery

  Many of the bucolic burial ground’s celebrated residents are still, according to local lore, making their presence felt 

  
• October 23 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  What nationalist leaders will learn from Geert Wilders

  By shouting at the system, the Dutch politician moves it rightwards

  
• October 16 2025
  FT MagazineFrench politics

  Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks

  Does the country need a wealth tax?

  
• October 9 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  A utopian future is still possible (just)

  Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

  
• October 3 2025
  Travel

  Simon Kuper: in the footsteps of Queen Victoria (and Victoria Beckham) at Germany’s grandest spa hotel

  After two years of restoration work, Brenners Park in Baden-Baden reopens this month

  
• October 2 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  Why 94 is the new 54 for moguls

  The careers of moguls are growing to unprecedented lengths

  
• September 25 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  Can Israel go it alone?

  The secular Zionists who founded the state were desperate for allies. No longer

  
• September 18 2025
  FT MagazineLife & Arts

  The threats facing Poland

  Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord