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Single-use plastics have become a cause célèbre for teenagers and millennials – and businesses are having to act fast
What’s driving California’s crackdown on its best-known companies?
The acidity of the fruit draws out the innate sweetness of the fish
The management thinker on preferring tactics to playing, thinking three hoops ahead, and ‘the curse of efficiency’
The rebuilt Prussian palace, home to the Humboldt Forum, is a German monument built in a very un-German way
Reacting to robots, redefining our relationship with animals and revealing the things that are killing us now — a special series
Q&A with the writer on how the whole city of Manchester serves as his mentor and why he’s happiest floating in the ocean
A carefully curated selection of music creates happy customers and staff
Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!
Beijing’s crackdown on minorities reflects a broader push towards a single ‘state-race’
You can only applaud their newly flawless taste. But their superfan one-upmanship is harder to handle
Simon Kuper returns to the place where Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt began their climb
Researchers are scraping our images from social media and CCTV. We may not like the consequences
Bolgheri is a rare point of connection between fine Italian and fine French wine
Dizzyingly tiny numbers, late-night parties, cold-war secrets: Jemima Kelly attends the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies
Why it’s in our nature to leave life-and-death issues to the last minute
As we learn more about our similarities, the battle for non-human rights grows
How life, death and disease have changed over the past 180 years
Androids need human-like qualities to foster acceptance – but not too many
‘Jackson Boxer is a phenomenal cook, inventing hard, with courage and brio, and working with excellent ingredients’
Surveys show that the public appetite for ‘strongman’ leaders goes hand in hand with renewed political engagement
Populist governments, from the US and UK to Brazil and Hungary, are growing more extreme in power
Full of flavour and snap, this riot of a dish is packed with spice from southern India
A Tokyo museum is trying to identify the technology that has changed the way we live
From bamboo sculpture to the installations turning seating into an art form
London’s SEEDS leads a trend for displaying design in homes rather than galleries
Five capital locations where dizzying decoration and frantic design collide
A more inclusive industry would properly represent the world it serves
Lucy Watson finds a caring side is common to some of her favourite items this year
The influential Italian talks about leaving Milan, the joy of making and why ‘ugliness can be beautiful’
Jancis Robinson on what she learnt from the wide, and expanding, world of wine while updating her reference book
The British painter was a compelling subject for photographers from Cecil Beaton to Henri Cartier-Bresson
As pre-launch excitement for his new game mounts, the legendary developer talks to the FT in Tokyo
When do you know if a colleague or acquaintance is something more?
