Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Philippines secretly reinforces ship at centre of South China Sea dispute
    • US to redirect Patriot air defence orders to Ukraine
    • Birth rates in rich countries halve to hit record low
    • The man with a mission to save Emmanuel Macron’s movement
    • Israeli leader at odds with military over war with Hamas
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Unusual burst of bets preceded Rishi Sunak’s election announcement
    • Tory election campaign director on ‘leave’ after gambling probe
    • Bank of England holds rates at 5.25% in ‘finely balanced’ decision
    • ‘Every Tory I know is angry’: betting scandal sends election campaign into ‘freefall’
    • Poll predicts Rishi Sunak to lose seat in Tory wipeout
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Revolut seeks valuation of more than $40bn in employee share sale
    • KPMG to cut further 200 UK jobs amid market slowdown
    • Permira’s last-minute decision to kill the Golden Goose IPO
    • Deutsche’s private bank cuts spending on external consultants by 70%
    • Octopus to repay £3bn of Bulb nationalisation costs
  • Tech
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Revolut seeks valuation of more than $40bn in employee share sale
    • News updates from June 20: Rutte to become Nato head; BoE keeps interest rates on hold
    • Permira’s last-minute decision to kill the Golden Goose IPO
    • Live news: British retail sales rebound much more than expected
    • Labour could borrow more without UK bond market backlash, say investors
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • The mother of all US presidential debates
    • The danger of deepfakes is not what you think
    • Zero-hours contracts — an obituary
    • Brace for the most distorted election result in British history
    • AI is coming for our anger
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Making sense of Gen Z: employers seek answers on managing younger workers
    • Why tackling accent bias matters at work
    • Janus Henderson’s Ali Dibadj: ‘You’ve just got to roll with the punches’
    • Business books: what to read this month
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • Best summer books of 2024: Fiction
    • Where the ICC fails, others will prevail
    • The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    • The Centre Pompidou prepares for a controversial revamp
    • The Bikeriders film review — 1960s motorcycle saga fuelled by the spirit of Scorsese
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

Janan Ganesh

International politics commentator

Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
Email Janan Ganesh
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Populism
    Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

    Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

    President Emmanuel Macron
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Europe’s real tourist trap

    The continent gets too much attention from the world to recognise its irrelevance

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Populism in Europe
    The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government

    Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence

    Leader of the French far-right National Rally Marine Le Pen, left and lead candidate of the party for the upcoming European election Jordan Bardella
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why do so few cities have everything?

    The number that can claim to hasn’t kept pace with a growing world population

    A young man and woman are walking at dusk. Behind them the skyscrapers of Manhattan glint in the setting sun
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    No, Starmer should not be bolder

    ‘Bold’ is media-speak for ‘left wing’, and Britain doesn’t need a left turn

    Keir Starmer
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The shock of the old

    The appetite for risk often increases with age

    A close-up of a man in his sixties with one raised eyebrow
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The Tories’ disastrous misunderstanding of America

    On trade, the right of British politics couldn’t see that the US is a foreign land

    Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Rishi Sunak and the conservative dilemma 

    The right likes markets but not their cultural consequences 

    A person with their face out of shot wears a Conservative party rosette on the lapel of their jacket
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    US economy
    The lesson of the great American boom

    Maybe politics, which for decades has been dysfunctional in the US, doesn’t matter that much

    A skyline view of New York
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    World
    What can and can’t be learnt from Singapore

    The island’s ultimate strength has been a lack of dogma

    People bustling through the atrium of a modern building with a view of nearby skyscrapers
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The right must own the Tory defeat

    The people who brought us partygate and Liz Truss’s mini-Budget think Rishi Sunak is the problem

    Rishi Sunak with former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The quest for interesting conversation

    From someone who relies on it for ideas, this is how to find it

  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    How Michelin stars explain the world

    The west’s relative loss of power is reflected in fine dining

    A man dressed in white arranges food on a plate
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Joe Biden
    The lesson of Biden’s transformational first term

    Eloquence and charisma are vastly overrated in politics

    A portrait photo of Joe Biden
  • Saturday, 20 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

    As the country loses clout, it holds the world’s attention more

  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Republican Party US
    US Republicans aren’t good at nationalism

    Stinting Ukraine will harm America in the contest with the supposed ‘real’ rival China

    Josh Hawley talks to reporters in Washington
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The myth of the second chance

    The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise

    On a pebble beach, a young woman walks away from a man
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Populism
    The west is suffering from its own success

    Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are byproducts of wealth

    The toppled statue of the Confederate sailor Charles Linn in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2020
  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The price of peace is stagnation

    As well as being the worst thing our species does, war is a creative spur

    A painting of a room with nurses and injured soldiers, with a tombstone at the centre
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Britain will dislike the Labour government in no time

    Voters haven’t had to think about the party’s flaws, such as its statism, for 14 years

    Labour leader Keir Starmer, with Angela Rayner (left) and Rachel Reeves, arriving with his shadow cabinet in central London last year
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Britain’s war on everything it is good at

    Finance, foreign students, even the Premier League — the UK resents its strengths

  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power

    It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same

    A man in a suit hugs a woman in a suit at a gathering of heads of state
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The rise of bleak chic

    All the social incentives are to be a pessimist 

    A view over London on a grey day
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    UK public policy
    The era of the unfixable problem

    Refugee flows, low birth rates and left-behind regions persist because there is no answer, not because politicians are useless

    Two men in high-visibility orange vests and hard hats shake hands
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Europe? What a country

    Whether or not it ever truly unites, the continent is, by global standards, one place

Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Financial Times

UK Edition

Subscribe for full access
  • Switch to International Edition

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT Feed
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In