As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t ...

As Erik Satie’s epic ‘Vexations’ comes to London, we recall other marathon feats, involving Marina Abramović, John Cage and F ...

Former UK fund manager plots Easter comeback but his new ‘investment strategy platform’ has some obvious flaws ...

This is daytime clubbing. It’s a revelation, and I’m a convert. Daytime clubbing and what is dubbed “light” clubbing — events ...

The 1950s floor lamp design created by Richard Kelly and Philip Johnson for the architect’s Glass House turned the way a room is lit on its head — and it’s making a comeback ...

As travel warnings ease and flights increase, David Pilling joins a tour operator’s ‘recce’, travelling from the coast into the desert to find dune seas, ancient villages and remote oases ...

It’s not an area in which I have any expertise but I’ve found myself thinking about trade and resources, and what it could look like to imagine that there are different economic landscapes, aside from ...

Amid the seemingly existential challenge by AI to the artistic process, two books explore how human creativity responds to changing environments ...

After months of US threats to hobble Mexico with tariffs over its “intolerable alliance” with drug cartels, the Trump administration has become positive about its southern neighbour.

Something happened inside the hypnosis room, Sunny recalled. “I came out and it left me [with] a feeling of ‘I don’t even know what it’s like to gamble’. “The only way I can describe it is if somebody ...

Following hard on the heels of Youssou N’Dour comes Salif Keita, his Malian equivalent in stature. In 2019 the “Golden Voice of Africa” announced he was retiring from music to play draughts in the ...

Swamp Notes is taking this weekend off so instead we wanted to share the latest episode from our fellow FT podcast, The ...