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Janan Ganesh

Political Commentator

Janan Ganesh is political columnist for the FT. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two.

He appears regularly on TV and radio, including a weekly slot on BBC1’s Sunday Politics. He is also the author of a biography of George Osborne, the UK chancellor.

Janan Ganesh is political columnist for the FT. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years, and a researcher at the Policy Exchange think tank for two.

He appears regularly on TV and radio, including a weekly slot on BBC1’s Sunday Politics. He is also the author of a biography of George Osborne, the UK chancellor.

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Autumn Statement

Britons who shout loudest are not always the worst-off

Something strange is happening to the way we think and talk about need

Janan Ganesh

November 21, 2016 6:10 pm
Political Populism

Liberal self-flagellation always assumes a bleak future

When voters act strangely, we want to believe we are living through a kink in history

Janan Ganesh

November 15, 2016 5:01 am
Theresa May

Leadership demands a voice equal to the times

It takes steel and silk from a prime minister to handle the emotions of the nation

Janan Ganesh

November 7, 2016 6:02 pm
Brexit

Brexiters who bully central banker Mark Carney will target others

Such intimidating behaviour reflects leading Leavers’ paranoia and power

Janan Ganesh

October 31, 2016 5:58 pm
UK infrastructure

Let’s fasten our seatbelts and embrace the world

Heathrow’s extra runway is proof that travel remains central to our lives

Janan Ganesh

October 28, 2016 4:00 am
Liberal Democrats UK

Even a homeless liberalism remains the best bet

Britain will probably suffer materially from Brexit but corporatism will not return

Janan Ganesh

October 24, 2016 5:38 pm
Conservative Party UK

Theresa May’s nativist nostalgia suits the public mood

Notebook: The prime minister’s contrast with her predecessor is overblown

Janan Ganesh

October 21, 2016 10:01 am
Brexit

The markets hold more sway than Theresa May

If it leaves consumers feeling pinched, the pound’s post-referendum fall will change public opinion

Janan Ganesh

October 17, 2016 6:18 pm
Theresa May

Don’t look back in anger at the stiff upper lip

Notebook: The band Oasis, and Theresa May, embody a lost world of emotional self-reliance

Janan Ganesh

October 14, 2016 11:34 am
Brexit

For Remainers, the only good Brexit is hard Brexit

Sometimes history throws up ideas that are better tested than forever stymied

Janan Ganesh

October 10, 2016 5:08 pm
Oliver Stone

Lunch with the FT: filmmaker Oliver Stone

Over a bottle of Riesling in Munich, the Oscar-winning director talks about politics, power and creating films with attitude

Lunch with the FT

October 7, 2016 11:23 am
NHS

Homegrown doctors are wrong treatment for the NHS

Premium

Beyond the politics, there are questions of tone, even taste, in Conservative party policy, writes Janan Ganesh

Instant Insight

October 4, 2016 12:48 pm
Brexit

Why Brexit could breathe new life into devolution

Local decision-making is a better fit for a complex, divided society

Janan Ganesh

October 4, 2016 3:52 am
Theresa May

Brexit will crowd out Theresa May’s social reform

People are rightly obsessed with the precise contours of Britain’s future relations with the EU

Janan Ganesh

October 3, 2016 5:03 pm
Sam Allardyce

The FA needs bolder tactics for the home game to flourish

Notebook: Even Allardyce recognised the association’s incompetence – it now faces a tough decision

Janan Ganesh

September 30, 2016 4:31 am
Labour Party UK

Moderates have little hope of reclaiming Labour

There is a reasonable chance that Gordon Brown will turn out to have been the party’s last premier

Janan Ganesh

September 26, 2016 4:54 pm
Ed Balls

Generation Balls in UK politics already reeks of yesterday

Picture them roaming public life like ghosts, helping out without ever being central to anything

Janan Ganesh

September 23, 2016 9:42 am
Theresa May

Theresa May’s honeymoon will end but not just yet

Everything the UK leader has done in these opening months has conveyed strength and novelty

Janan Ganesh

September 19, 2016 2:53 pm
Globalisation

Boxing’s centre of gravity has shifted east

Notebook: The sport symbolises the breakdown of the American century, writes Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh

September 16, 2016 11:15 am
UK schools

Hysteria and hypocrisy in the war on mediocrity

No Nobel laureate or chess grand­master can out-think an upper-middle-class couple trying to rig life for its spawn

Janan Ganesh

September 12, 2016 5:31 pm
Recreational Drugs

The torn fabric of London nightlife

Notebook: The end of society’s semi-tolerance of drug use could prove bigger than the club’s closure

Janan Ganesh

September 9, 2016 12:52 pm
Theresa May

The folly of Theresa May’s electoral self-denial

The PM has no reason to demur. A quick election could keep her in power until she is bored

Janan Ganesh

September 5, 2016 5:06 pm
Bruce Springsteen

Why Sunderland has never produced a Bruce Springsteen

British cultural chronicles conscript luckless workers to a leftwing creed they have always rejected

Janan Ganesh

August 19, 2016 11:41 am
United Kingdom

Yesterday’s politicians fuelled the British gold rush in Rio

Little matches this as a case study of intended success, of a top-down project going to plan

Janan Ganesh

August 15, 2016 11:24 pm
United Kingdom

Britain owes a debt to ‘mod’ culture

Notebook: Class rigidities and old notions of masculinity succumbed to the proto-yuppies

Janan Ganesh

August 12, 2016 11:38 pm
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