Simon Kuper

Thursday, 29 January, 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

Thursday, 22 January, 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

Saturday, 17 January, 2026

Football

Afcon and the power of a footballing diaspora

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

Thursday, 15 January, 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?

Wednesday, 14 January, 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

Thursday, 8 January, 2026

US politics & policy

Defining Donald Trump

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

Thursday, 18 December, 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

Thursday, 11 December, 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

Friday, 28 November, 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

Thursday, 27 November, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How flattery became a big, beautiful industry

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

Thursday, 20 November, 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

Thursday, 20 November, 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

Thursday, 13 November, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

How democrats can fight back

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

Saturday, 8 November, 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

Friday, 7 November, 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

Thursday, 6 November, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

What makes a bad book

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

Thursday, 30 October, 2025

FT MagazineSport

How sport unites us

In a divided world, fandom is a social superpower

Wednesday, 29 October, 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

Thursday, 23 October, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

What nationalist leaders will learn from Geert Wilders

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

Thursday, 16 October, 2025

FT MagazineFrench politics

Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks

Does the country need a wealth tax?

Thursday, 9 October, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

A utopian future is still possible (just)

Mainstream parties have stopped promising voters better lives

Friday, 3 October, 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

Thursday, 2 October, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Why 94 is the new 54 for moguls

The careers of moguls are growing to unprecedented lengths

Thursday, 25 September, 2025

FT MagazineLife & Arts

Can Israel go it alone?

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

Thursday, 18 September, 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