Illustration by Seb Jarnot of Nancy Pelosi ©Seb Jarnot Lunch with the FT May 17, 2013

Nancy Pelosi

The Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives – and the most senior elected woman ever in American politics – on desertion in Congress and doughnuts for breakfast

LIFE & ARTS ARCHIVE

A furniture store burns after being set on fire by rioters in Croydon, south London, last August ©AP
John Lloyd, writing in 2012, on the social change our cities need
illustration of Alexander Lebedev ©James Ferguson
Newspaper magnate Alexander Lebedev talks to Charles Clover in 2012 about his clashes with the Kremlin - and that TV punch-up
Jane Lewis provides the Thermage treatment ©Laura Pannack May 17, 2013

Wrinkle-free zone

How far do you want to roll back the years and how much would you spend? William Leith asks visitors to the UK’s first anti-ageing show

Angela Merkel leaving Berlin's Bundestag on the day of a December 2012 EU summit ©Getty BOOKS May 17, 2013

Berlin or bust

Can a European Union chafing under German leadership and struggling to restore a sense of collective purpose do more to connect with its people? Tony Barber reviews ‘The Passage to Europe’, ‘The Lost Continent’ and ‘German Europe’

'Our English Coasts' ('Strayed Sheep') (1852), by William Holman Hunt ARTS May 17, 2013

All change at Tate Britain

Jackie Wullschlager on a new chronological rehang that brings British art to the global stage

Temples at Lalish TRAVEL May 17, 2013

Iraq: A Kurd’s eye view

As two British tour operators launch holidays to northern Iraq, Mike Carter explores a region where the horrors of Saddam’s tyranny are being replaced by hospitality and hope

A man begs in Barcelona ©Reuters BOOKS May 17, 2013

Death by a thousand cuts

A study of public health in times of recession. Clive Cookson reviews ‘The Body Economic’, by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu

Azzedine Alaïa (near right) and Jean Nouvel at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles ©Spencer Lowell STYLE May 17, 2013

Design, set, match

Fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and architect Jean Nouvel are collaborating for the first time on ‘The Marriage of Figaro’

Marettimo ©Corbis TRAVEL May 17, 2013

Marettimo: a mountain in the Med

Teeming with wild shrubs and birdlife, an island off the coast of Sicily is a spectacular and serene destination for a spring walking trip

©Corbis BOOKS May 17, 2013

Correspondence course

Personally reticent, intellectually generous letters from one of Italy’s finest postwar writers. Christopher Tayler reviews ‘Italo Calvino’, edited by Michael Wood

A gang of teen burglars in Sofia Coppola’s new film 'The Bling Ring', starring Emma Watson (second from left) STYLE May 17, 2013

Rising sunglasses

They are the latest lucrative style statement, with ever more flamboyant designs and prices