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Thursday, 10 July, 2025

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Thursday, 10 July, 2025

Memo from Paris: Simon Kuper takes a dip in the Seine

For the first time since the 1920s, Parisians can legally bathe in their river. Despite the naysayers’ grim warnings, our hesitant columnist tests the waters

Wednesday, 9 July, 2025

FT CollectionsSports Exchange

Football heading for ‘collective bargaining’, says head of players’ union

Alex Phillips, the secretary-general of Fifpro says footballers are scapegoated, overworked and excluded from decisions — while true power remains with clubs and owners

Thursday, 3 July, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Myth of the big, bad megacity

What the right feels about metropoles isn’t physical fear. It’s discomfort

Saturday, 28 June, 2025

InterviewVisual Arts

Juan Mata’s next move? Art curator

The former Manchester United star on joining forces with Hans Ulrich Obrist for Manchester International Festival’s ‘Football City, Art United’

Thursday, 26 June, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How war became contagious

With peaceful norms fading, a new weapon has made conflict cheaper and easier

Wednesday, 25 June, 2025

FT CollectionsSports Exchange

Liverpool’s former data guru on signing Salah and Man Utd’s struggles

For a decade Ian Graham helped drive Liverpool’s analytical approach. Now CEO of Ludonautics, he explains why most clubs are still resistant to change

Saturday, 21 June, 2025

Travel

Sand, sea and solitude in Sardinia’s ‘little Sahara’

While the Costa Smeralda draws a crush of billionaires and superyachts, on the opposite side of the island, the Costa Verde has vast dunes, a slick new hotel — and almost nobody around

Thursday, 19 June, 2025

FT MagazineDonald Trump

Will he or won’t he? How to parse Donald Trump’s daily show

Lessons from a French historian on understanding a US administration that is structured like a reality series

Tuesday, 17 June, 2025

Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far

Best summer books of 2025: Sport, Health and Wellness

Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their best mid-year reads

Thursday, 12 June, 2025

FT MagazinePopulism

The strongman’s MO

A study of political movements worldwide assesses the populists’ playbook — and how Donald Trump fits in

Thursday, 5 June, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Thank you, government

Recognising what our leaders get right is as important as blaming them for what goes wrong

Thursday, 29 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How Paris fell for football

The city was once too snooty for football — no longer

Thursday, 22 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How to be a great thinker

Seven habits of highly intelligent people

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025

Special ReportFT Wealth: May

Meet the insurgent economists promoting a global wealth tax

Gabriel Zucman is leading a movement for billionaires to pay at least 2 per cent of their net worth each year

Tuesday, 20 May, 2025

HTSI

Le Grand Café: inside the hottest new brasserie in Paris

The Grand Palais’ monumental restaurant wants to recapture the magic of the belle époque. Has it worked?

Monday, 19 May, 2025

FT Globetrotter

Clay time: Simon Kuper’s ultimate guide to Roland-Garros

Everything you need to know about this glorious Grand Slam tournament, from its often dark history to tickets and where to eat and drink

Thursday, 15 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How China caught up with Silicon Valley

US tech moguls used to see China as a production hub. Now some are buying slices of its technological future

Thursday, 15 May, 2025

Special ReportThe Business of Football

Injury time — the hidden shift in player workload

Footballers may not be playing more games, but their time on the pitch has become far more demanding

Thursday, 8 May, 2025

FT MagazineUS universities

The case for universities

Institutions everywhere are in crisis, but they will survive

Thursday, 1 May, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Wartime trauma endures through generations

The political impacts of the second world war may be fading, but the personal toll is not so easily erased

Thursday, 24 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

The inarguable case for banning social media for teens

A large consensus is forming, not before time

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025

FT Globetrotter

How to be a digital nomad in Paris

Working remotely from the French capital can be a delight — but it does have its snags. Here’s everything you need to know to set up shop successfully

Thursday, 17 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Americans, it’s time to move to Europe

Europe outdoes the US on the key metrics of a good 21st-century life

Thursday, 10 April, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

A new who’s who of the global elites

They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?