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Top climate scientists share their outlook
While all agree that the world is warming, large areas of conflict still exist. The FT asks 10 respected experts – and a notable sceptic – for their thoughts and fears
Tbilisi, a year after the war with Russia
John Lloyd visits Georgia to find a people united in their recognition of Moscow’s ‘hard power’ – but divided over their president’s response on South Ossetia
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First Person: Shannon Burke
‘Witnessing a murder turned me into a paramedic. After I quit my job, I published two novels based on my experiences. My work changed my writing’
Am I the last person in the world to discover Michael Bublé?
After failing to recognise the singer at a radio show, Mrs Moneypenny resolves to stop spending weekend evenings reading The Economist and get out more
Dispatch from Sheringham
Tesco has been trying to open a supermarket in this little seaside town, but some of its residents are continuing to bar the door, writes Matthew Engel
It’s not just Scrooge who wants Christmas abolished
Resources that go into Yuletide gifts often result in products that nobody wants, but Tim Harford says these findings omit the warm glow we get from giving and receiving
Dear Economist: I love Walmart: my wife hates it. Help!
I have tried to convince her that not only does the chain offer the lowest prices, it is also a force of good. But she complains about its policies. Who is right?
Trial by error
Margaret McCartney is astonished that for all the data collected in medicine the collection of better information on new drugs is not prioritised
Defining Moment: Watneys overturns the barrel, 1936
The London brewery, which had been working on a prototype intended for troops in India, introduces the new keg beer to the less exotic surroundings of leafy Surrey
The Information: Where did the old buses go?
Fewer than 700 Routemasters remain in the UK – just under one-quarter of the nearly 2,900 that were built over a 14-year period from the mid-1950s
Moment of madness: The Somali war on ringtones
The violently devout militia that trades as al-Shabaab has banned musical ringtones in the portions of the country controlled by its guerrillas
Pursuits
How thoroughbreds become winners
Racehorses are brought to peak performance at David Pipe’s Somerset stables. Bob Sherwood joins the trainer on his early morning gallops
Golf with a trick-shot master
Tom Cox picks up a host of short-game secrets at the Jeremy Dale Scoring School
Maserati’s Quattroporte Sport GTS
Colourful, vivacious - and not entirely respectful of the rules. John Griffiths revels in the Italianate flair of this luxury saloon
The walk file: Swinbrook, Oxfordshire
Leave the car by the green where the old post office stood in gentler days and climb the stone steps into the yard of St Mary the Virgin for an encounter with three vain knights and the Mitford sisters, writes Colin Tudge
