Matthew Engel | Financial Times

Friday, 29 November, 2019

Weekend long reads
The battle for the Brexit-backing north
Will Britain’s election be decided in the Labour heartlands? Matthew Engel reports
Friday, 16 August, 2019

UK infrastructure
The foreign states that own Britain’s railways
Train travel in the UK now combines the worst features of capitalism and socialism
Thursday, 1 August, 2019

Cricket
England face Ashes test after World Cup glory
Amity between old adversaries almost certain to crumble once first ball is bowled
Friday, 19 April, 2019

Tiger Woods
Child prodigy Tiger Woods becomes the ultimate comeback kid
The holder of this title until now would, for me, have been Muhammad Ali
Friday, 12 April, 2019

Cricket
Cricket has started to eat itself
The pursuit of novelty is leading to ever-shorter forms of the game
Friday, 11 August, 2017

ReviewHistory books
The Last Wolf by Robert Winder — island stories
Geography is destiny in this historical meditation on the peculiarities of the English
Friday, 14 July, 2017

Sport
Johanna Konta and the sporting citizens of nowhere
National identity matters less in an age of globalised sport
Friday, 23 June, 2017

FT SeriesSummer books 2017
Summer books of 2017: new titles by FT writers
Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter
Friday, 23 June, 2017

Sport
Henry Blofeld, voice of English summer, to retire
Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September
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Friday, 16 June, 2017

ReviewNon-Fiction
That’s the Way it Crumbles by Matthew Engel — the conquest of English
An entertaining inquiry into the relentless advance of American expressions among the British
Friday, 2 June, 2017

Life & Arts
Why is Britain so disenchanted with its politicians?
Matthew Engel tours Middle England in search of the root of voter disillusionment
Friday, 12 May, 2017

Education
All work and no play? The new ‘uni’ experience
Academics and students on campus life in the era of ‘knowledge corporations’
Friday, 5 May, 2017

ReviewNon-Fiction
Do I Make Myself Clear? by Harold Evans — eloquence under siege
A celebrated journalist’s guide to crisp, accurate expression is full of sound advice
Friday, 10 February, 2017

Life & Arts
Are we seeing the strange, lingering death of Labour England?
In Stoke-on-Trent, Matthew Engel finds a party struggling to answer the simplest questions
Friday, 23 September, 2016

Sport
Middlesex take county cricket title in blazing fashion
With an hour of season to go, three of the nine teams were all in with a chance of winning
Friday, 9 September, 2016

ReviewNon-Fiction
The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver review — from A to Z and back again
A fascinatingly detailed history one of the world’s great scholarly projects
Friday, 12 August, 2016

Olympic Games
BBC Olympics wins medal in hype
Commentators have forsworn understatement
Friday, 22 July, 2016

ReviewBooks
Golden years
In Rio, records will fall and reputations will be made. But are the Olympics losing their ability to inspire?
Monday, 11 April, 2016

World
Willett rises as Spieth learns to lose
Golfers need no reminding of their fallibility, especially on the back nine at Augusta
Thursday, 24 March, 2016

Life & Arts
Revising Ireland’s Easter Rising
How has modern Ireland changed the way it views the events that took place in Dublin 100 years ago?
Friday, 12 February, 2016

Europe holidays
St Moritz on thin ice
In the resort where winter tourism began, warm weather forced the cancellation of the White Turf horse race
Friday, 29 January, 2016

FT Magazine
Last boat to St Helena
One of the remotest islands on earth is getting an airport — and that could change everything
Sunday, 27 December, 2015

Sporting ViewSport
Tyson v Fury? Dream sporting dramas for 2016
Mourinho in Norfolk, Tyson v Fury, and mandatory drug-taking at the Olympics
Sunday, 13 December, 2015

Sport
Fury over boxer smacks of hypocrisy
Boxer’s ideas don’t have to make sense — he just has to hit people
Friday, 11 December, 2015

Women of the Year
The Queen
In the year her reign became the lengthiest in British history, Queen Elizabeth still did the business