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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, 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
    Cricket
    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

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  • 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
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    In the year her reign became the lengthiest in British history, Queen Elizabeth still did the business

  • Friday, 4 December, 2015
    FT Magazine
    Slow train coming

    While much of the developed world reaps the benefits of modern rail travel, Britain and the US are still waiting for the second age of the train. What went wrong?

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