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Friday, 31 July, 2020

Premier League
Lockdown is a game of two halves
The sun shines on the Premier League and Test cricket
Friday, 31 July, 2020

Life & Arts
Johnny Depp, the High Court and the reality of fame
Henry Mance asks what the A-lister’s libel trial says about the dazzle of celebrity and the search for truth
Friday, 24 July, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Why the libertarians are foolish about face masks
Wearing coverings is finally mandatory in England in shops as well as on public transport
Friday, 24 July, 2020

Life & Arts
The new rules on what you can say in the office
How wary should companies be of employees’ comments on sensitive issues?
Friday, 17 July, 2020

Brexit
If only Michael Gove heeded ‘Captain Foresight’ on Brexit
Like a middle-aged man with a leather fetish, the UK is about to tie itself up in world-class red tape
Friday, 10 July, 2020

Retail & Consumer industry
What Barcelona’s bleeding shirts tell us about the pandemic
Whatever we want to change about the pre-Covid-19 world, it will not change automatically
Thursday, 9 July, 2020

InterviewTelevision
David Simon: ‘The next Trump will be more frightening’
The creator of The Wire on why his 1940s-set new series The Plot Against America is actually about today
Friday, 3 July, 2020

Retail & Consumer industry
I’m not going to the pub yet
Drinking at a social distance has its pluses but we have nothing to talk about
Thursday, 2 July, 2020

FT SeriesA very different summer
A summer of yet more childcare? Bring it on
Henry Mance on how lockdown has led him to (mostly) embrace slow parenting
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Friday, 26 June, 2020

UK politics & policy
Too close to home: Robert Jenrick, Johnson’s ‘expert’ housing minister
Richard Desmond, the Tory donor at the centre of the planning controversy, is more transactional than a supermarket checkout
Thursday, 25 June, 2020

University of Oxford
Oxford college rocked by allegations of leaks and blackmail
Charity Commission orders mediation in acrimonious dispute at Christ Church
Friday, 19 June, 2020

Donald Trump
Donald Trump knows the power of writing — if not reading
The US president has shown us you should never judge a book by the cover-up
Friday, 12 June, 2020

UK politics & policy
Which lockdown celebrity would you share your bubble with?
Let the social beauty parade for a support buddy begin . . .
Thursday, 11 June, 2020

ReviewNon-Fiction
How Prince Andrew made the case for royal reform
Nigel Cawthorne’s biography of the Duke of York raises deep questions about the British monarchy
Friday, 5 June, 2020

Conservative Party UK
British institutions need protecting from Tories
The idiocy of the Westminster conga line is part of a pattern of arrogance and disregard
Thursday, 4 June, 2020

Television
Holly Walsh: ‘It’s just really fun to write messed-up women’
The comedian and ‘Motherland’ writer on her new odd-couple sitcom ‘The Other One’
Friday, 29 May, 2020

Dominic Cummings
Cummings, the Nostradamus of north London
For all his love of super-forecasting, he couldn’t see that after driving 260 miles he might be recognised
Friday, 22 May, 2020

FT Magazine
How the pandemic reinvigorated religion
From drive-through confessions to solitary funerals, faith leaders are finding new ways to connect
Friday, 15 May, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
The local WhatsApp group practises staying alert
What does ‘control the virus’ mean? They’re allowing estate agents back to work!
Friday, 15 May, 2020

Life & Arts
The rise and fall of the office
At first offices resembled factories. Later they became a second home. Is this the end of the water-cooler century?
Friday, 8 May, 2020

Elon Musk
Maybe Elon Musk won’t save me after all
My love affair with the Tesla chief can’t survive the pandemic
Friday, 8 May, 2020

Prince Andrew
Prince Andrew repaid own charity after queries from regulator
Charity Commission intervened over £350,000 of payments to Duke of York’s private secretary
Friday, 8 May, 2020

FT Magazine
‘Parks and Recreation’ star Ben Schwartz on the joys of improv
The actor on playing jerks, his new Netflix specials and life as a comedian in lockdown
Thursday, 7 May, 2020

Film
New British Film Institute boss Ben Roberts on streaming and cinemas after lockdown
In an exclusive first interview, the CEO talks about his love of scary movies, video games and why the BFI should be like ‘a nerdy friend’
Friday, 1 May, 2020

World
Aliens are coming and they are not bringing PPE
If ET had turned up he would have been reported to the police for a non-essential journey