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Best of FT Weekend Magazine 2017

From an investigation into the murky heart of London’s corporate intelligence industry to an agenda-setting report on the towns the UK economy forgot, in 2017 the magazine has made the news as well as followed it. Here are some of our favourite features and columns

Spies, lies and the oligarch: inside London’s booming secrets industry
The battle over fugitive billionaire Mukhtar Ablyazov stretches from Kazakhstan to Knightsbridge
Left behind: can anyone save the towns the UK economy forgot?
Soaring antidepressant usage, falling life expectancy: Blackpool embodies much of what is going wrong on the fringes of Britain
What we get wrong about technology
Forget flying cars or humanoid robots. The most disruptive inventions are often cheap, simple and easy to overlook
Katie Roiphe: should people over 30 ever use emojis?
‘A calculated emoji is worse than nearly anything you could do on your phone — or, possibly, in your life’
Has science cracked the peanut allergy?
Amid the rise in food allergies, two new treatments are on the verge of approval. David Crow on how they work and why our food has turned against us
How Silicon Valley rediscovered LSD
A new generation of San Franciscans believes the drug makes them more creative

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