Finding freedom in later life
Convenience, opportunity and freedom are the focus for a new generation of over-65s The over-65s are a rapidly growing age group and an increasingly healthy and wealthy group too. Data from the Office ...
lifestyle in later life
Riverstone is blazing a trail in the exclusive later-life market with a concept that goes beyond simply providing desirable private homes and extensive communal amenities. It has created a vibrant ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Swamp Notes: How can Democrats rebuild?
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 ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
The lawyer at the heart of the ferocious debate over assisted dying
Charles Foster believes he has a duty to defend against a state-sanctioned and medicalised means to self-obliterate ...
‘It’s postcolonial but doesn’t know it’ — a ‘Ballet Shoes’ for our age
As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?
When love is not just romance but compassion, too
The two figures are personifications of Humanity and Love. Humanity, on the right side of the picture, has his hands on a set of oars but lies back unmoving, as if passed out from exhaustion. Love, ...
Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics
There is no question that the pandemic was an unparalleled peacetime crisis and one that derailed Johnson’s government. But as Shipman notes, the seeds of his destruction were also ever present and in ...
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...
The ski-in art crowd bringing cultural highs to resorts
It’s easy to see why prime property mountain villages are increasingly seductive prospect for galleries – but the benefits are a two-way play ...