Dinner with the FT: George Osborne
Tipped to be Britain’s next prime minister, the ‘austerity chancellor’ saw his ambitions in tatters as the UK voted for Brexit. In a northern trattoria, he talks about life after Number 11
Lunch with the FT: rebel anchor Jorge Ramos
He’s the face of the news for the US’s 55m Hispanics but for English-speaking Americans he is mostly known for taking on Donald Trump. Over chiles en nogada in Florida, the anchorman talks about hate, hope — and why he’s always been a rebel
Lunch with the FT: Edward Snowden
The world’s most famous whistleblower has room service with Alan Rusbridger in a Moscow hotel to talk about the ‘surveillance free-for-all’ — and the possible role of a Rubik’s Cube in his spiriting away of the NSA files
Lunch with the FT: Nick Denton
Over lobster bisque, the founder of trailblazing gossip site Gawker talks about the fallout from outing a ‘tech lord’ and the backlash against too much truth
Lunch with the FT: Roger Stone
What’s it like to be Donald Trump’s streetfighter? On a hectic summer’s day in Manhattan, over ‘the best devilled eggs in the world’, Edward Luce finds out
Lunch with the FT: Burning Man’s Larry Harvey
Over Shrimp Louis, the festival’s ‘chief philosophic officer’ talks about ‘radical self-reliance’, conservative values and why a ‘sudden change’ is on the way
Lunch with the FT: Carlo Rovelli
Over an affogato that tests the laws of thermodynamics, the physicist known for making complex science intelligible talks about radical politics and his delight in transforming how we see the universe
Lunch with the FT: novelist Teju Cole
At a Harlem hotspot, the writer and critic talks about racial tensions, American exceptionalism and social media
Lunch with the FT: Kremlin media star Margarita Simonyan
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Lunch with the FT: Rob Rhinehart
His ‘future food’ began as a lifehack for techies. Now it’s a $100m-plus start-up. Over double desserts in LA, he says our eating habits are stuck in the industrial revolution
Lunch with the FT: Eddie Jones
Over steak and salad, rugby’s coach of the moment talks about man-management, wooing Japanese fans and Boris Johnson’s lack of a plan
Lunch with the FT: Philip Tetlock
Over apple fizz and celeriac soup in London, the sage of ‘superforecasting’ talks about the Brexit curveball and why political pundits get it wrong
Lunch with the FT: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Over jollof rice in Lagos, the Nigerian novelist talks about race, gender, her hard-edged heroines and her optimism for her home country — while revealing some surprising news
Lunch with the FT: Nikesh Arora
Before his sudden resignation this week, the Indian tech titan talked about the challenges of being an outsider in Japan, gambling with his own money and his love for his now former SoftBank boss
Lunch with the FT: Adair Turner
Over sea bass and ravioli, the former head of the FSA talks about Brexit, his mistake with the euro and why George Osborne is ‘a bit of a gambler’
Lunch with the FT: Cecily Brown
Over vegetables in Mayfair, the British painter talks about Proust, the ‘physical urge’ to paint and why motherhood meant joining the ‘human race’
Lunch with the FT: James Baker
The Republican grandee talks to FT editor Lionel Barber about Nixon’s culinary tastes, Reagan’s pragmatism and the meaning of Donald Trump
Lunch with the FT: Sidney Toledano
Over boeuf and wine in Paris, Dior Couture’s boss tells how he tackled the Galliano racism row, why he’s in no rush to appoint a designer, and why you won’t fix problems by looking at numbers
Lunch with the FT: Carlo Ancelotti
The food-loving Italian football coach talks about managing galactic egos and how big businesses like his new club Bayern Munich can still be a family
Lunch with the FT: Sean Penn
Over a pack of cigarettes — and some food — the hellraising Oscar-winning actor on his activism and that infamous article with a Mexican drug kingpin
Lunch with the FT: David Petraeus
The former CIA head talks about ‘firing yourself’, hard lessons learnt, and why there’s no substitute for US leadership
Lunch with the FT: Susan Wojcicki
Over tofu in Palo Alto, the YouTube boss talks about reinventing TV and how Silicon Valley would benefit from employing more women
Lunch with the FT: Jin Liqun
The power behind the Chinese bank that’s upsetting America meets Jamil Anderlini at a fast-food joint in Beijing and insists, ‘We’re not trying to upend the international economic and financial order’
Lunch with the FT: Sheikh Hamad Bin-Jaber al-Thani
As PM of Qatar he invested in Britain and intervened in the Arab Spring. In one of his luxury London hotels he talks about what went right — and what went wrong
Lunch with the FT: Nigel Farage
‘I am what I am,’ the Ukip leader tells Henry Mance over six pints, a bottle of wine and two large glasses of port
