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Columnists

FT MagazineGillian Tett

Why work from Wall Street when you can WFH?

FT MagazineElaine Moore

Will lockdown permanently change the way we shop?

The rural idyll feels real. It’s the city that’s the myth

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

The scourge of the staycationers

Why Britain is let down by period dramas

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

Social media is helping us pay tribute to ‘ordinary’ lives

House & Home

Housework wars: who is cleaning up the lockdown mess?

How to create the perfect pool

Five of the world’s best homes for sale for hobbyists

Food & Drink

FT MagazineJancis Robinson

Delivering the goods: wines from Australia’s Tumbarumba

Courgette and herb salad with dukkah and burrata — a Honey & Co recipe

Martin Wolf’s fantasy dinner party

Arts

When will the music start again?

In this crisis, protect the arts as essential

ReviewMusic

Glyndebourne’s colourful Le nozze di Figaro goes online

Turner Prize cancelled for first time in 20 years

ReviewTelevision

Space Force — Steve Carell lands as a lunatic general in cosmic Netflix comedy

InterviewArts

Alice Procter on her Uncomfortable Art Tours and the case for restitution

Lunch With The FT

Lunch with the FT

José Andrés: ‘I believe a force for good will take over’

The outspoken DC chef on threats to global food supplies, Trump — and why restaurants will rebound

Lunch with the FT

Timo Soini: ‘Globalism is God for godless people’

The Finnish politician on ‘Fixit’, his love of Millwall — and why the pandemic will favour populists

Books

ReviewNon-Fiction

The Falcon Thief — egg smuggling and wildlife crime

A tale of criminal derring-do casts a thief of raptor eggs in an overly heroic light

Old world order — the rise and fall of the Habsburgs

Two books chart the path of one of history’s most powerful families

Style

How ‘Normal People’ became the hit costume drama of lockdown

Masks and monochrome: dressing for Tokyo’s state of emergency

Panniers to puffer jackets: the history of social-distance fashion

How America fell out of love with prep style

Robert Armstrong

Cancel that cravat: my rules for retro dressing

The sound of mayhem: working from home with kids

Travel

Wish I were there...

Montserrat, the Caribbean’s comeback kid

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s dreamy Greek retreat

Summer holidays: your questions answered