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FT Crossword: Number 18,229 on.ft.com/4pOpaRG
FT Crossword: Number 18,229
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December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
FT Crossword: Number 18,229 on.ft.com/4pOpaRG
On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama: on.ft.com/48uQrBt
Tom Stoppard, playwright, 1937-2025
On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama
on.ft.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama: on.ft.com/48uQrBt
The War Between the Land and the Sea — can Doctor Who work without the Doctor? on.ft.com/4ouWY5e
The War Between the Land and the Sea — can Doctor Who work without the Doctor?
Frothy spin-off series casts Russell Tovey as a regular Joe caught in the middle of an inter-species dispute
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December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The War Between the Land and the Sea — can Doctor Who work without the Doctor? on.ft.com/4ouWY5e
Unusual lead blamed for defensive error, but thinking lead itself is poor on.ft.com/4pJgifN
Unusual lead blamed for defensive error, but thinking lead itself is poor
Understand declarer’s plan, then try to counter it
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December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Unusual lead blamed for defensive error, but thinking lead itself is poor on.ft.com/4pJgifN
Carole King — the genius and hard-won wisdom of a great American singer-songwriter on.ft.com/4pdAlDn
Carole King — the genius and hard-won wisdom of a great American singer-songwriter
Jane Eisner’s compelling, compassionate biography explores the forces that shaped the artist behind ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow?’
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December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Carole King — the genius and hard-won wisdom of a great American singer-songwriter on.ft.com/4pdAlDn
In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was Just an Accident’: on.ft.com/3KlLbYU
Iranian director Jafar Panahi on why he must return to the country that imprisoned him
In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was Just an Accident’
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December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In 2022 he believed he had made his last film — this year he won Cannes’s top prize with political kidnapping drama ‘It Was Just an Accident’: on.ft.com/3KlLbYU
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025 and St John wins the Judge's Choice. Find out who else triumphed at the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards, hosted in London by our critic Jay Rayner on.ft.com/4q2YCMH
St John and Bouchon Racine among winners at the FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025 and St John wins the Judge's Choice. Find out who else triumphed at the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards, hosted in London by our critic Jay Rayner on.ft.com/4q2YCMH
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No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
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The experts’ guide to the Christmas food and drink that really matters — and how to get it right
If you could only choose one festive treat, what would it be? Nigella Lawson, Jay Rayner, Jancis Robinson and more share their non-negotiables
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
Boxes of chocolates as decorative as they are delicious on.ft.com/4iAQd0j
Boxes of chocolates as decorative as they are delicious
With painted packaging, and boxes bedecked in grosgrain ribbons, gilt trims and Liberty prints, who needs tinsel?
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December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Boxes of chocolates as decorative as they are delicious on.ft.com/4iAQd0j
Designer Paul Smith: ‘Beautiful houses are best left alone’ on.ft.com/3XuqKfo
Designer Paul Smith: ‘Beautiful houses are best left alone’
His 19th-century west London home has perfect doll’s house proportions and is filled with missives, mementoes and trinkets — a joyful testament to a lifetime of curiosity and collecting
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December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Designer Paul Smith: ‘Beautiful houses are best left alone’ on.ft.com/3XuqKfo
Fantasy home: the drama and beauty of Quasimodo’s bell tower on.ft.com/4pdPUv1
Fantasy home: the drama and beauty of Quasimodo’s bell tower
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December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fantasy home: the drama and beauty of Quasimodo’s bell tower on.ft.com/4pdPUv1
FT Crossword: Number 18,228 on.ft.com/4anlgKO
FT Crossword: Number 18,228
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December 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
FT Crossword: Number 18,228 on.ft.com/4anlgKO
Daring to be Free — a revelatory history of enslaved rebellion on.ft.com/43Xl29p
Daring to be Free — a revelatory history of enslaved rebellion
Sudhir Hazareesingh’s powerful account of enslaved resistance in the Americas places the rebels and fighters front and centre
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December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Daring to be Free — a revelatory history of enslaved rebellion on.ft.com/43Xl29p
A Midsummer Night’s Dream recast as disturbing winter psychodrama on.ft.com/3M9VhwE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream recast as disturbing winter psychodrama
Staging at London’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse dives into the play’s darker recesses
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December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream recast as disturbing winter psychodrama on.ft.com/3M9VhwE
St John and Bouchon Racine among winners at the FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards on.ft.com/48mHni0
St John and Bouchon Racine among winners at the FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
St John and Bouchon Racine among winners at the FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards on.ft.com/48mHni0
Why Australia loves muso politicians on.ft.com/4p4Clha
Why Australia loves muso politicians
An attempt to criticise the prime minister’s tastes in rock and post-punk has fallen flat
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December 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Why Australia loves muso politicians on.ft.com/4p4Clha
Can you predict the Candidates winner? on.ft.com/4opfBHq
Can you predict the Candidates winner?
Puzzle: find Black’s two-move winning route
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December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Can you predict the Candidates winner? on.ft.com/4opfBHq
A dream-like voyage through communist Romania — Blinding: The Left Wing on.ft.com/3XrDljj
A dream-like voyage through communist Romania — Blinding: The Left Wing
Mircea Cărtărescu’s disorientating tangle of memory and fantasy is set in the grim Bucharest of the mid 20th century
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December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
A dream-like voyage through communist Romania — Blinding: The Left Wing on.ft.com/3XrDljj
Australia’s Treasury Wine makes $450mn writedown on weak US demand on.ft.com/4iu4pZ1
Australia’s Treasury Wine makes $450mn writedown on weak US demand
The winemaker said it would adopt a more ‘conservative’ growth outlook
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December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Australia’s Treasury Wine makes $450mn writedown on weak US demand on.ft.com/4iu4pZ1
Chess, backgammon and poker tables are upping their game on.ft.com/3XYMbFr
Chess, backgammon and poker tables are upping their game
A new generation of artists and designers is playing fast and loose with the tropes of the genre. The results are winning
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December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Chess, backgammon and poker tables are upping their game on.ft.com/3XYMbFr
A new chapter for London’s industrial buildings on.ft.com/49Ps1oy
A new chapter for London’s industrial buildings
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December 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A new chapter for London’s industrial buildings on.ft.com/49Ps1oy
FT Crossword: Number 18,227 on.ft.com/3K3K3cn
FT Crossword: Number 18,227
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December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
FT Crossword: Number 18,227 on.ft.com/3K3K3cn
What does the 2025 Budget mean for your money? on.ft.com/4opAX7U
Budget 2025: what it means for your money
New policies affect taxes, pensions, council tax and savings
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What does the 2025 Budget mean for your money? on.ft.com/4opAX7U
Tom Stoppard, playwright, 1937-2025 on.ft.com/3XmCgJE
Tom Stoppard, playwright, 1937-2025
On stage and screen, the writer turned the weightiest of topics into dazzling, humane drama
on.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright, 1937-2025 on.ft.com/3XmCgJE
Some customers love La Vialla’s mail-order wines, oils and cheeses so much they spend their holidays helping with the harvest on.ft.com/44wGKRN
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Some customers love La Vialla’s mail-order wines, oils and cheeses so much they spend their holidays helping with the harvest on.ft.com/44wGKRN