illustration of hoodies ©Luke Waller Nov 16, 2012

The Diary: Jonathan Ford

M, an ex-armed robber, turns up at a forum on welfare cuts and asks the FT’s chief leader writer for his business card

Food & Drink

An illustration depicting wine in India ©Ingram Pinn
Despite punitive taxation, India now has a thriving wine culture – or at least its vast middle class and ‘upper crust’ do
The facade of the Gaylord Restaurant
This is the time for Punjabi food – ‘to fatten one up for the cold, winter months ahead’
chicken curry ©Andy Sewell
‘Those who live in the country with freezers full of cheap game are probably already well-accustomed to pheasant curry’
Tyler Brule: The Fast Lane Tyler Brule Tyler Brule Nov 16, 2012

Where’s the airlines’ blue-sky thinking?

The most critical problem facing Europe’s main carriers is the lack of innovation in terms of what they offer

Harry Eyres: The Slow Lane Harry Eyres from ARTS Nov 16, 2012

Sane voices in a world gone mad

Arturo Barea and Manuel Chaves Nogales refused to take extreme ideological positions and had the commitment to tell the truth

peter aspden From ARTS Nov 16, 2012

The art of leadership

Cultural activities have the power to build social integration and point to a higher purpose for humanity

Vanessa Friedman at The Modern Vanessa Friedman from STYLE Nov 16, 2012

Be grateful for Grace

Two new books offer a riposte to the idea that practically anyone can be a fashion editor

Susie Boyt Nov 16, 2012

The vicious furniture cycle

Holding items have a certain gay abandon to them, they shrug, they are impervious. Yet they can have a vast appeal

An illustration of how to handle media by Luis Grañena ©Luis Grañena Simon Kuper from FT MAGAZINE Nov 9, 2012

How to handle the media

An interview is like a seduction: the journalist aims to charm you into giving him your best stuff. Sometimes the seduction is literal

An illustration of a hand holding a cellphone with a pie chart ©Shonagh Rae Gillian Tett from FT MAGAZINE Nov 9, 2012

Playing the budget game

‘If voters feel they have active choices, will they keep tabs on politicians in a more effective, co-operative manner?’

illustration of Star Wars scene ©Lucas Varela Robert Shrimsley from FT MAGAZINE Nov 9, 2012

The (Disney) empire strikes back

The scene: a desert landscape. A youth is herding alpacas when he sees two figures, one tall and gold, one small and a bit like a dustbin...

An engraving of William Harvey ©Hulton Archive/Getty Images From FT MAGAZINE Nov 9, 2012

Dr Harvey’s extraordinary discovery

This week the Wellcome Trust Book Prize was awarded to ‘Circulation’, Thomas Wright’s biography of the revolutionary 17th-century physician William Harvey. Clive Cookson considers the fascinating – and often gory – life of the Englishman who discovered how blood is pumped around our bodies