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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.

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  • 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
    The best books of the week
    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

  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    FT MagazinePolitical espionage
    Seeing spies everywhere

    Yes the west is paranoid, but that doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    There are two Donald Trumps — but which is the real one?

    Sensible conservative or dangerous narcissist? The best answer comes from those who have worked with him

  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Work-life balance
    Europeans have more time, Americans more money. Which is better?

    Life expectancy, happiness, sustainability and innovation among factors shaping work attitudes

    Montage image of a hand clutching an EU flag
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Sex and dogs and heads will roll

    Politicians’ scandals have changed with the times but the shame remains the same

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    My career race is in the home stretch, here’s what I know

    What advice would those near the end of their work lives give those just starting out?

  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Food & Drink
    What I’ve learnt from two decades eating in Paris

    The city’s food culture is extraordinary — but few tourists get to see it

  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    FT MagazinePopulism
    How to beat nativist populists at their own game

    The populist story cannot be defeated by rival facts or policies. To win, anti-populists need a more compelling tale of their own

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Billionaires’ love for Trump could backfire

    Admiration for the former president among businesspeople is politically naive

  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We can end the culture wars

    The conflict seems unending, but a peace treaty is possible

  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Smart Money — Alex Duff on the changing fortunes of Brentford Football Club

    How Matthew Benham used statistical insights to elevate the club to the Premier League

    A man in a green top
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    No news is bad news

    The end of the mass-media age is nigh, with big consequences for politics

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The west can still save Ukraine

    If European countries don’t see defeat coming, we can’t turn the wheel to avoid it

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    FT MagazineNato
    Nato needs a bland, non-ideological leader. Mark Rutte will be perfect

    Why the Dutch prime minister is front-runner to hold together the various conflicting interests in the Nato coalition

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    FT MagazineUK society
    Homelessness is a problem we could solve

    Despite growing numbers being affected, many of the solutions are known

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