Mar 6, 2013

Soccer fans warm to Ruhr romantics

Borussia Dortmund is a club in stark contrast to billionaire-owned rivals in European football

Mar 4, 2013

Cameron condemned to rightward lurches

The moment to push root-and-branch modernisation has gone, writes Janan Ganesh

Feb 25, 2013

Voters expect Osborne to stay his course

The British are busy hunkering down for years of squeezed living standards

Feb 4, 2013

Cameron must stop appeasing his party

The UK leader sees same-sex marriage as a way to broaden Tory appeal

Jan 28, 2013

Rising populism is worthy of Nixonland

At a time when elites are popularly resented, a silent majority is there for the taking

J. McHugh illustration ©J. McHugh Jan 25, 2013

Tory conflagration has been postponed

The referendum will settle nothing but could slice through the Tories

Jan 21, 2013

Custodian of an interventionist legacy

Cameron filters Blair’s basic arguments through a very Tory temperament

Jan 14, 2013

Immigration line weakens Cameron story

The UK government’s policy is economic and political folly

Jan 7, 2013

Britain’s two gambles in welfare reform

Prospects for the planned reshaping of benefits do not look rosy

Jan 4, 2013

The Europe speech Cameron should give

The prime minister is to make a long-awaited address. Here is a suggested draft

Dec 17, 2012

Britain suffers delusions of weakness not grandeur

Nowhere is the UK’s imagined irrelevance less true than in the European Union

Dec 10, 2012

Politicians miss the point of business

The purpose of the sector is not corporate social responsibility

Dec 7, 2012

Britain needs another grand vision tailored to what it can afford

The problem confronting the country is a reluctance to question the postwar settlement

Dec 5, 2012

Chancellor makes best of bad job

There may be worse to come but Labour has been left scratching its head

Dec 5, 2012

Candid Osborne avoids political risk

Chancellor needed an accident-free Autumn Statement

Dec 3, 2012

British are bearing austerity – for now

Public resigned to services cuts and higher taxes

Nov 30, 2012

Tories must nix the idea of a Ukip pact

Internal contradictions would doom the relationship

Nov 26, 2012

Osborne’s daring and characteristic choice

It is no surprise that the chancellor has appointed Mark Carney to lead the BoE

Nov 19, 2012

Cameron is right to turn to the fixer

Political strategist Lynton Crosby is just what the Conservative party needs

Nov 16, 2012

Green Tories were never sustainable

Economic gloom has encouraged the government to shelve environmental concerns

ABOUT JANAN

Janan Ganesh Janan Ganesh is political columnist for the FT. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two.

He appears regularly on TV and radio, including a weekly slot on BBC1's Sunday Politics. He is also the author of a biography of George Osborne, the UK chancellor.

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