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Alice Fishburn

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Alice Fishburn is Opinion and Analysis Editor. Previously she was deputy editor of FT Weekend and editor of the prize-winning FT Weekend Magazine.

Alice has also been involved in the creation and launch of Globetrotter and of the FT Weekend Festival. She came to the FT from the Times, where she was online comment editor and campaigns reporter.

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    FT MagazineParenting and families
    The kids aren’t alright — and neither are their parents

    As Omicron burnt through the population, children proved easy tinder. The silence from politicians is deafening

  • Friday, 25 December, 2020
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    Alice Fishburn’s fantasy dinner: Moses, Muppets and masterpieces

    The FT Weekend Magazine editor takes over the Frick Collection for a gossipy Christmas feast

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    Recipes for success: London restaurants’ best meal kits for lockdown and beyond

    From adding the finishing touches to haute cuisine to rolling your own sushi — bring the capital’s top fine-dining to your kitchen table

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    ‘Glimmers of good living’: the FT’s London lockdown discoveries

    From ordering epicurean adventures to swimming in the Thames — via collecting cool jumpsuits — here’s how we got through it first time around

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Food & Drink
    Q&A: Who would come to your fantasy dinner party?

    Join our FT editors for a light-hearted discussion.

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss — short stories that ask big questions

    A powerful new collection from one of America’s great writers

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Help Yourself — three new stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

    A sharp collection of stories examines how quickly we judge ourselves and others

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    Books
    Podcast: Best books of 2018. Plus: Sally Rooney on sex, class and the internet

    We discuss the year’s best novels and non-fiction — as well as some old favourites — with Arifa Akbar and Alice Fishburn

  • Friday, 14 December, 2018
    Life & Arts
    What I learnt from a year of reading only books by women

    Alice Fishburn set herself a challenge for 2018 to only read female authors. Here’s what she discovered

  • Friday, 17 March, 2017
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    The dating app entrepreneur on sexism in Silicon Valley and the ‘techiquette’ for finding love online

  • Friday, 27 February, 2015
    The Diary
    The Diary: Alice Fishburn

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    A layer-cake of time: Crossrail’s archaeology

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