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Matthew Engel

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Matthew Engel has had a journalistic career of unusual variety, covering everything from terrorism to tiddlywinks. He has reported from 50 countries and seven continents, clocking up No. 7 in January 2012 when the FT sent him to the Antarctic.

For 12 years, he was editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. His latest book, ‘Engel’s England’, came out in October 2014.

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  • 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
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    Summer books of 2017: new titles by FT writers

    Recent books by Matthew Engel, Edward Luce and Anne-Marie Slaughter

  • Friday, 23 June, 2017
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    Henry Blofeld, voice of English summer, to retire

    Doyen of radio cricket commentary will hang up his microphone in September

  • 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

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  • Monday, 11 April, 2016
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    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
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    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
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    In the resort where winter tourism began, warm weather forced the cancellation of the White Turf horse race

  • Friday, 29 January, 2016
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    One of the remotest islands on earth is getting an airport — and that could change everything

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