Israel, Lebanon and the mirage of a new Middle East
Lebanese academic and diplomat Ghassan Salamé on how conflict engulfed his country — and why it is folly to try to reshape ...
The Canadian comedian who became China’s most famous foreigner
Breaking through on state-backed television in the late 1980s and 1990s, he was the first foreigner to be initiated into ...
The royal hotel creating a buzz on Morocco’s Mediterranean coast
The country’s Atlantic resorts are better known — but now the king’s Royal Mansour Tamuda Bay is drawing eyes to the Med ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — Election denialism is still in style
This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Election denialism is still in style’ ...
New experiments in grape growing
Grape breeders have been experimenting with crossing and hybridising vines for at least a couple of centuries, notably in ...
In search of art without an argument
The main character in Coriolanus, which is on at the National Theatre in London, is what we would nowadays call a fascist. He ...
‘Nobody Wants This’ and the new agelessness of man
Netflix’s hit romantic comedy reflects a world in which wrinkles, offices and children are slowly being obliterated ...
How George Orwell became a dead metaphor
How is it that Orwell has become the single answer to so many questions, in so many different subjects, for so many people? His name conjures an amorphous idea of fair play and “common sense”; his ...
Venice in three ingredients
Artichoke, duck and eel are staples of the city’s cuisine — a glorious union of land, water and air. Here’s where to find them at their most delicious ...
Conkers scandal is a reminder of bonkers worlds everywhere we look
King Conker — known, in civilian life, as David — is 82 years old. He is the man who prepares the conkers before the event; he selects them for competition, drills the holes, affixes the strings. But ...
A slow-living retreat in the Burren
The Burren in County Clare is a landscape unlike any other. The chalky grey karst topography was formed beneath the sea then thrust upward, sculpted by a collision of tectonic plates to form a lunar ...
Swamp Notes: Election denialism is still in style
Swamp Notes is produced by Ethan Plotkin, Sonja Hutson, Lauren Fedor and Marc Filippino. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Special thanks ...