Financial Times

Meditations on a surreal cherry-blossom season in Japan.

“The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next.”

An unofficial conference for readers of the conspiratorially-minded finance blog ZeroHedge brings a host of largely male, mostly conservative readers (and reporter Alexandra Scaggs) to the small, left-leaning town of Marfa, Texas. Prepare for Bitcoin and specialized jeans with room for four knives in this first of a three-part series.

Britain’s traditional curry houses are in crisis; can a new generation of entrepreneurs save the nation’s tandoori?

Why do people find Jonathan Franzen so aggravating? Lucy Kellaway investigates at lunch.

Discussing the future of air travel from inside one of British Airway’s highly realistic £10m Heathrow flight simulators.

A profile of the family behind the British technology company that designs and manufactures vacuum cleaners, fans and more.

Hallucinogenic ayahuasca tea has long played a religious role in Brazil, but did it also contribute to the brutal death of a celebrated Brazilian artist?

The line between journalism and PR.

A generation of new babies is painting a picture of what the future of the British Empire will look like: “Today, the increase in British birth rates has ushered in another baby-centric age, one defined by three distinct aspects. More babies of different ethnicities are being born, challenging the very notion of an ethnic ‘minority’. They are also part of a simultaneous parenting boom: people from an ever wider array of backgrounds can become parents of healthy babies. Finally, there is an intellectual boom: as scientists and policy makers – like their political forebears – seek to use our growing knowledge about how babies and their brains develop to improve education and curb inequality.”