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Simon Kuper

Life & Arts Columnist

Simon Kuper joined the Financial Times in 1994. He wrote the daily currencies column, before leaving the FT in 1998. He returned in 2002 as a sports columnist and has been there ever since. Nowadays he writes a general column for the Weekend FT on all manner of topics from politics to books, and on cities including London, Paris, Johannesburg and Miami.

Email Simon Kuper @KuperSimon  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    FT MagazinePolitics
    A tale of three very different elections

    We’ve got a rare opportunity to compare the UK, US and French systems. What have we learnt?

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    The Paris Olympics will be political. That’s a good thing

    For some athletes the podium can be a platform

  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Uefa Men's European championship
    Spanish teamwork exposes England’s lack of co-ordination

    La Roja’s well-drilled pressing game exposed limitations of Gareth Southgate’s team

    Spain’s Lamine Yamal celebrates
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    Paris, the Olympics and the reinvention of a city

    After a divisive election, this summer’s Games will fire the starting gun on a vast project to transform the French capital

    Stands being erected in a square with a statue of a woman on a winged horse and also at the base of the Eiffel Tower, which bears the symbol of the Olympic rings
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Uefa Men's European championship
    Young wingers give Spanish football a fresh face

    Black stars Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams help steer La Roja to Euro final but racial tensions still dog Spanish game

    Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal together and separately
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    FT MagazineUK Government
    Blair is a model for Starmer’s Labour

    New Labour got lots wrong. But it got more right than most governments

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Simon Kuper's EurosUEFA Germany 2024
    Dutch players strive to live up to a glorious tradition

    Today’s Oranje have a dearth of quality but can still prosper using the country’s inherited intelligence about the game

    Cody Gakpo, left, Ronald Koeman, centre, Memphis Depay
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    HTSIThe HTSI adrenaline issue
    Enzo Lefort is a very modern musketeer

    The limitless ambition of the photographer, physiotherapist and Olympic fencer

    Enzo Lefort wears Leon Paul plastron, breeches and socks. Nike Ballestra trainers, Lefort’s own. Throughout: Kitesy Martin Studio necklace, Lefort’s own. Bracelet, Lefort’s own
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Uefa Men's European championship
    The case for an England victory in the Euros

    Dull passing game has dogged favourites until quarter-finals but easier route leaves them well placed for glory

    Montage including Gareth Southgate, Jude Bellingham and John Stones
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The Russian media sending truth back home

    Free press seemed doomed after Putin invaded Ukraine but journalists in exile refuse to despair

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Poverty, apathy, despair: the bellwether Midlands seat where the UK election could be decided

    Cost of living crisis dominates concerns for voters in Nuneaton and Walsall

    Keith Kondakor
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Political Fix podcast37 min listen
    Could the election results still surprise us?

    Plus, where have all the ‘good chaps’ of British politics gone?

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    FT MagazineFrench parliamentary election 2024
    I’m bullish about France, but few agree

    The election is the culmination of a gloomy picture that has been 50 years in the making

    A cartoon wolf in a top hat with a red, white and blue feather sticking out of it is eating a bird that is also red, white and blue
  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Allez les Jeux! A sporting tour of Paris

    The stories of the historic sites and key venues in the birthplace of the modern Olympics — and many international sports events

    The Aquatics Centre built for the 2024 Olympics, with a tree and gardens in the foreground
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    UEFA Germany 2024
    Will Les Bleus tackle France’s far right?

    For three decades the French football team has been the instrument for a national debate on race

    A combined image of Kylian Mbappé and Marine Le Pen
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Where the ICC fails, others will prevail

    How the International Criminal Court became relevant

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UEFA Germany 2024
    Europe’s superpower is football not politics

    Favourites France and England and underdogs Ukraine and Georgia play against backdrop of domestic upheaval

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Godwin by Joseph O’Neill — mining football talent

    A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel

    Illustration of a person in a person with pages flying in the air
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How the wrong chaps took charge of British politics

    The next government needs to clean up the British parties

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Aspiration isn’t just for Tories

    He may be an unremarkable leader, but Keir Starmer embodies Labour’s latest message

  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    InterviewWomen in business
    Women’s football boss Michele Kang: ‘I want the next generation to compete on an equal playing field’

    Owner of teams including Olympique Lyon Féminin wants to bring better resources to the female game

    An Asian woman in a dark suit stands in the terrace of a football stadium
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    FT MagazineGeert Wilders
    What I got wrong about Geert Wilders’ rise

    The Dutch system normalised the anti-Islam politician. Now his obsessions will become the government’s

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    A university is not a tribe

    The intellectual function of young people is to think new thoughts

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    How good were Klopp’s Liverpool?

    What the data tells us about the outgoing manager’s record

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