Simon Kuper

Thursday, 30 April, 2026

Thursday, 23 April, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. The politics of terror

Putin and Trump are among the powerful individuals radicalising into violence

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 16 April, 2026

Artificial intelligence

FT Magazine. It’s clear we won’t regulate AI for safety’s sake

As usual, governments will barely affect the trends that most affect our lives

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 9 April, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. The creeping feeling that life is getting too long

Why our lengthening lifespans are not entirely welcome

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 2 April, 2026

Life & Arts

An all too special relationship

Maga leaders obsess over an imagined version of a long-lost Britain

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 26 March, 2026

Famine

FT Magazine. How conflict is driving hunger

The Swede who runs the World Food Programme on its hardest year for decades

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 19 March, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. Trump’s wars are made for TV

And, tragically, the real life death toll seems irrelevant

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 12 March, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. How Paris beat the car

Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 5 March, 2026

Solar power

FT Magazine. At last, the carbon cutter everyone can get behind

Why solar will shape the power systems of the future

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 26 February, 2026

US society

FT Magazine. The grimly compelling rise of videoed death

Why viral violence is becoming a prime mover of politics

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 19 February, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. British politics has a small-money problem

Cheap to buy, under-regulated, no wonder the UK is vulnerable to corruption by foreigners

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 12 February, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. Life in a depopulating world

With declining fertility rates, many countries will look very different by 2100

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 5 February, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. Trump is Europe’s best enemy yet

Lack of a common foe enfeebled Europe — but not any more

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 29 January, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. The ‘Little West’ takes on the new world order

Terrified into co-operation by outside threats, a surprisingly solid bloc is emerging

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 22 January, 2026

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. 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

Simon Kuper

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

Europe

FT Magazine. 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?

Simon Kuper

Wednesday, 14 January, 2026

Books

Interview. 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

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 18 December, 2025

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. Europe’s second-class citizens

Countries that looked down on the Gulf’s ‘kafala’ system are edging closer to creating their own

Simon Kuper

Thursday, 11 December, 2025

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. Who needs a priest when you have a chatbot?

The morphing of religion from communal activity into private pursuit goes one step further

Simon Kuper

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

Life & Arts

FT Magazine. How flattery became a big, beautiful industry

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

Simon Kuper

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

Ekrem İmamoğlu

FT Magazine. The man who weakened strongman Erdoğan

Jailing Turkey’s opposition leader hasn’t stopped him looking like the country’s president in waiting

Simon Kuper