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    Simon Kuper

    Life & Arts Columnist

    Simon Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994. He wrote the daily currencies column, before leaving the FT in 1998. He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has been there ever since. Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.

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    • Monday, 30 November, 2020
      The best books of the week
      Juve! 100 Years of an Italian Football Dynasty

      Herbie Sykes’ history of Italy’s dominant team is a study in how power works in the country

    • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
      ObituaryDiego Maradona
      Diego Maradona, Argentine football great, 1960-2020

      Supreme player who led his country to victory at 1986 World Cup in a tumultuous life on and off the pitch

    • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
      FT MagazineCoronavirus treatment
      Never mind what antivaxxers say — just watch what they do

      Even vaccine-hesitant countries show high levels of uptake for inoculations, and Covid-19 will be no different

    • Friday, 20 November, 2020
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
      Best books of 2020: Sport

      Simon Kuper selects his must-read titles

    • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Have journalists finally learnt how to challenge political lies?

      The profession needs much higher standards to prevent Trump-like figures broadcasting falsehoods

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
      FT MagazineClimate change
      Despite the Biden victory and a vaccine, we shouldn’t celebrate just yet

      ‘Even if we can beat nativism and the other virus, we’ll remain stuck with a worse problem: climate change’

    • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
      FT MagazineDonald Trump
      If Biden wins, what’s next for Trump — and Trumpism?

      ‘Trumpism would survive, but probably couldn’t win another election. It would be a personality cult without the personality’

    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Why the urban poor will be forced to leave big cities

      Forget the Zooming classes fleeing to the country. This exodus could reshape city life for years to come

    • Saturday, 17 October, 2020
      FT Magazine
      Arsène Wenger on leadership and life after Arsenal

      For 22 years, the Frenchman lived and breathed managing the club. ‘I was not completely normal,’ he tells Simon Kuper

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    • Friday, 16 October, 2020
      Football
      Small English football clubs will rise from the ashes

      They have survived wars, depressions and crooks; even if some fold, they will survive Covid, too

    • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
      FT MagazineBrexit
      What Leavers and Remainers really think now

      ‘Brexit focus groups show people still want to take back control but confess to national despair’

    • Thursday, 8 October, 2020
      FT MagazineEducation
      Why the US and UK face a university challenge

      ‘If you’re 18 and looking to study in English, British and American colleges are no longer the obvious choice’

    • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
      FT MagazineUS immigration
      Why Europeans no longer dream of America

      It was once seen as a place of reinvention — but our attitudes to the US are shifting from envy to compassion

    • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
      FT MagazineCoronavirus economic impact
      How the pandemic deepened the poverty pit

      ‘Once a family falls into extreme poverty, it may never rise again’

    • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
      ReviewHistory books
      Why sport is at the heart of Englishness

      Robert Colls’ This Sporting Life explores a nation’s passion, from foxhunting to football

    • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
      FT MagazineCoronavirus pandemic
      Vacancy: rule-breakers for post-Covid politics

      The pandemic has undermined trust in Europe’s leaders and is sending voters in search of new answers

    • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      Why populists have given up on promises

      Shorn of innovative policies or competence, Trump and Johnson face a fork in the road

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      FT MagazineTransport
      Why cities must make more of their rivers

      As coronavirus prompts us to remake urban areas for the age of working from 凯发电游官方网站home and Amazon Prime, we need to return the waterways to service

    • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
      FT MagazineFC Barcelona
      How FC Barcelona became FC Messi

      The club have relied on player power for two highly successful decades but they took the idea too far

    • Friday, 21 August, 2020
      Life & Arts
      Simon Kuper on the rise of PSG — the football club that united Paris

      The football club once symbolised a divided city. But with Qatari millions — and a shot at Champions League glory — all that has changed

    • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      From America to Zimbabwe, the world is taking to the streets

      How protests are replacing parliament as the main arena of the opposition

    • Friday, 24 July, 2020
      FT Magazine
      Nuclear secrets: the Dutch whistleblower who tried to stop Pakistan’s bomb

      Frits Veerman first warned the ities in 1973 about the suspicious activities of his colleague AQ Khan. Why was he ignored?

    • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
      FT MagazineTax
      Time to end handouts for heirs

      Taxing the scions of rich families would still leave them better off than most — and save them from decadent pariahdom

    • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
      FT MagazineLife & Arts
      It’s time the US learnt how modern democracy works

      If Trump goes, the country can fix the weak spots he exploited — with the help of its old allies

    • Thursday, 9 July, 2020
      FT MagazineUS politics & policy
      What Democrats can do to topple Trump

      If they get it right, their campaign can serve as a template for progressives everywhere

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