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Inside LBC: the radio station capturing the political zeitgeist

In a polarised time, the broadcaster has won listeners by embracing confrontation

Weekend long reads

Actor Guy Pearce on playing Scrooge and his own ghosts from the past

The Australian star on fame, fatherhood and an unsettling new Dickens adaptation

‘The world stopped still’: Michael Collins’ stunning tree photographs

How taking pictures of London’s Hampstead Heath and Highgate Wood transported him into ‘woodland heaven’

Weekend long reads

A Christmas taste test with Heston Blumenthal

Tim Hayward samples The Fat Duck’s festive menu, alongside its legendary creator

FT Weekend Quiz: John le Carré, the Beatles and ‘Doctor Who’

Our ‘Round on the Links’ quiz tests your ability to draw connections. Thinking caps on!

Attica Locke: ‘I was raised to believe in the power of the word “no” ’

Q&A with the US writer on political thought, the privilege of creativity and her ‘big-ass treadmill’

FT MagazineSimon Kuper

Where to go if you’re fleeing climate change

Western countries fear a future influx of climate refugees. But the biggest impact will be on places unable to cope

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

How Extinction Rebellion got stuck

The climate protesters must avoid being seen as just one more nuisance for disrupted commuters

FT MagazineGillian Tett

What I learnt when Paul Volcker came to dinner

We will miss former Fed chairman’s wise — and thrifty — approach to finance

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The role of AI in China’s crackdown on Uighurs

What counts as a terrorist in Xinjiang is ultimately decided by humans, not machines

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Women in 2019: the game changers

From Nobel Prize-winners to artists and revolutionaries, we spotlight some of those remaking our world

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‘The loss of everything means I am ever more determined to stand up against this brutal oppression’
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How Grace Wales Bonner is changing the face of fashion
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Thursday, 5 December, 2019

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She became famous for the Brexit ruling but the Supreme Court president has been a trailblazer for decades
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