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Simon Kuper

Life & Arts Columnist

Simon Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994. He wrote the daily currencies column, before leaving the FT in 1998. He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has been there ever since. Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.

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  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why does Davos Man get it so wrong?

    Instead of global leaders making the big speeches, the World Economic Forum should confine them to the audience

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Joe Biden needs a new playbook for a new age

    ‘Biden’s administration will include many veterans of 2008. But the world and the US of 2008 no longer exist’

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    FT MagazineLondon fights for its future
    The triple threat to London’s city top spot

    How Covid-19, Brexit and the global role of English could cost the capital its clout

  • Saturday, 2 January, 2021
    The office: a photography special
    Simon Kuper: my two decades as a working-from-home pioneer

    ‘When I realised I could write my column from anywhere, I bought a flat in Paris. I suspect the FT didn’t even notice.’ Photography by Thomas Demand

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The challenges of covering 2020

    ‘Readers rightly accuse me of bias against Trump and Brexit. Both movements offend my cosmopolitan instincts’

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    What world is Brexit being launched into?

    ‘The EU has found in Brexit almost the only thing that unites its members’

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    Juve! 100 Years of an Italian Football Dynasty

    Herbie Sykes’ history of Italy’s dominant team is a study in how power works in the country

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    ObituaryDiego Maradona
    Diego Maradona, Argentine football great, 1960-2020

    Supreme player who led his country to victory at 1986 World Cup in a tumultuous life on and off the pitch

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    FT MagazineCoronavirus treatment
    Never mind what antivaxxers say — just watch what they do

    Even vaccine-hesitant countries show high levels of uptake for inoculations, and Covid-19 will be no different

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  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his must-read titles

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Have journalists finally learnt how to challenge political lies?

    The profession needs much higher standards to prevent Trump-like figures broadcasting falsehoods

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    FT MagazineClimate change
    Despite the Biden victory and a vaccine, we shouldn’t celebrate just yet

    ‘Even if we can beat nativism and the other virus, we’ll remain stuck with a worse problem: climate change’

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    FT MagazineDonald Trump
    If Biden wins, what’s next for Trump — and Trumpism?

    ‘Trumpism would survive, but probably couldn’t win another election. It would be a personality cult without the personality’

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why the urban poor will be forced to leave big cities

    Forget the Zooming classes fleeing to the country. This exodus could reshape city life for years to come

  • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
    FT Magazine
    Arsène Wenger on leadership and life after Arsenal

    For 22 years, the Frenchman lived and breathed managing the club. ‘I was not completely normal,’ he tells Simon Kuper

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Football
    Small English football clubs will rise from the ashes

    They have survived wars, depressions and crooks; even if some fold, they will survive Covid, too

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    FT MagazineBrexit
    What Leavers and Remainers really think now

    ‘Brexit focus groups show people still want to take back control but confess to national despair’

  • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
    FT MagazineEducation
    Why the US and UK face a university challenge

    ‘If you’re 18 and looking to study in English, British and American colleges are no longer the obvious choice’

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    FT MagazineUS immigration
    Why Europeans no longer dream of America

    It was once seen as a place of reinvention — but our attitudes to the US are shifting from envy to compassion

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    FT MagazineCoronavirus economic impact
    How the pandemic deepened the poverty pit

    ‘Once a family falls into extreme poverty, it may never rise again’

  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Why sport is at the heart of Englishness

    Robert Colls’ This Sporting Life explores a nation’s passion, from foxhunting to football

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    FT MagazineCoronavirus pandemic
    Vacancy: rule-breakers for post-Covid politics

    The pandemic has undermined trust in Europe’s leaders and is sending voters in search of new answers

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why populists have given up on promises

    Shorn of innovative policies or competence, Trump and Johnson face a fork in the road

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    FT MagazineTransport
    Why cities must make more of their rivers

    As coronavirus prompts us to remake urban areas for the age of working from home and Amazon Prime, we need to return the waterways to service

  • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
    FT MagazineFC Barcelona
    How FC Barcelona became FC Messi

    The club have relied on player power for two highly successful decades but they took the idea too far

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