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Welcome to FT Weekend’s official Instagram account, sharing sneak peeks from the pages of @fthtsi, @ft_houseandhome, @ftglobetrotter and more

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'The best route into the elite these days seems to be to have parents in the elite. And when I look at most people who reached the top, in business or politics or the Epstein files, I don’t particularly want that for my kids.'⁠

In his latest column, Simon Kuper reflects on 18 years of raising children. Read it now, at the link in our bio.


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Last month, the Colombian port city of Santa Marta played host to a climate summit unlike any other. On the agenda: the total phaseout of fossil fuels. In the new FT Weekend Magazine, Pilita Clark reports from inside the quest to phase out fossil fuels.⁠

Plus, Tim Harford on the changes of economic data, Simon Kuper on parenting, a spring salmon recipe – and much, much more.⁠

Grab a copy from newsstands this weekend.⁠

Image description: a large machine in operation at a fossil fuel extraction site⁠

Image credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images⁠


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The 84-year-old delivered a stirring set that ranged from Simon and Garfunkel classics to the mini-masterpiece that is his latest album.⁠

Tap on the link in bio to read Ludovic Hunter-Tilney's review.⁠

Image description: Paul Simon plays acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone on stage at a concert, wearing a cap and red shirt⁠

Image credit: Jake Edwards


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Brazilian-New Zealand supermodel Angelina Kendall stars on the cover of our spring travel issue, which 'look[s] at ways to refresh, recharge and revive the mind, body, heart and soul,' as HTSI's @jellison22 writes in her editor’s letter. In this week’s issue, we take you to Venice’s Giudecca where an exciting new hotel has just opened after years of renovations, and then on to the Dolomites, Paraty, Sarajevo, Accra, the Camargue, Patmos, Tokyo, Vienna, Beverly Hills, Porto, and beyond … ⁠

Plus – author Jung Chang talks taste; @sarabsemic experiences the pure happiness of the hiking holiday; @ajesh34 hits Vienna in search of the perfect Schnitzel; Patti Waldmeir returns to the country she first fell for 50 years ago; photographer @matthieusalvaing explores Camargue, France; designer Leda Athanasopoulou (@studiopale) shares her secret Patmos address book; @chrsschlkx talks to Phnom Penh’s fresh⁠ cohort of Khmer creatives; and much more. Pick up your copy this Saturday and Sunday with the FT Weekend.⁠

Image description: a young woman with long blonde hair reclines on two bright red plastic chairs, wearing a light summer dress⁠

Image credit:⁠ ⁠Photography @josholins at @mmxxartists
Styling @anastasia.barbieri at @artpartner


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In April 2026, hedge fund titan Crispin Odey dropped a £79mn libel suit against this newspaper. But not before it unearthed a number of new claims about his misconduct – and provided unusual insight into the disgraced financier’s mind.⁠

This is the inside story of one of the biggest libel claims ever brought in Britain.⁠

Tap the link in our bio to read more.⁠

Photo credit: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg⁠

Image description: Crispin Odey departs The Rolls Building after a court hearing in London. Text on image reads: Crispin Odey, the FT — and the £79mn libel suit that wasn’t


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A heist movie is simple. Take a vast diamond or Old Master, add genius thieves. Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers has other ideas. Why steal when you can forge? Better yet — why limit yourself to forging what actually exists? So begins a comedy of ticklish wit and sly profundity.⁠

Tap on the link in bio to read FT film critic Danny Leigh's ★★★★☆ review of the film following a fabled painter, and the art restorer determined to forge his works.⁠

Image description: An older man gestures towards a portrait painting on an easel while a younger woman in an apron looks on in an art studio


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From Succession to the Marvel Cinematic Universe @ArianMoayed has perfected modern villainy. But as the founder of Waterwell Theatre, the Iranian actor is also an activist for social justice, and a storyteller of sometimes other inconvenient truths. ⁠

Read @lilahrap’s profile of Moayed for @fthtsi at the link in bio.⁠

Image description: a clip of actor Arian Moayed mixing a cocktail behind a counter⁠

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From Succession to the Marvel Cinematic Universe @ArianMoayed has perfected modern villainy. But as the founder of Waterwell Theatre, the Iranian actor is also an activist for social justice, and a storyteller of sometimes other inconvenient truths. ⁠

Read @lilahrap’s profile of Moayed for @fthtsi at the link in bio.⁠

Image description: a clip of actor Arian Moayed mixing a cocktail behind a counter⁠

Photo credit: @jingyulin_


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From Succession to the Marvel Cinematic Universe @ArianMoayed has perfected modern villainy. But as the founder of Waterwell Theatre, the Iranian actor is also an activist for social justice, and a storyteller of sometimes other inconvenient truths. ⁠

Read @lilahrap’s profile of Moayed for @fthtsi at the link in bio.⁠

Image description: a clip of actor Arian Moayed mixing a cocktail behind a counter⁠

Photo credit: @jingyulin_


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From Succession to the Marvel Cinematic Universe @ArianMoayed has perfected modern villainy. But as the founder of Waterwell Theatre, the Iranian actor is also an activist for social justice, and a storyteller of sometimes other inconvenient truths. ⁠

Read @lilahrap’s profile of Moayed for @fthtsi at the link in bio.⁠

Image description: a clip of actor Arian Moayed mixing a cocktail behind a counter⁠

Photo credit: @jingyulin_


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From Succession to the Marvel Cinematic Universe @ArianMoayed has perfected modern villainy. But as the founder of Waterwell Theatre, the Iranian actor is also an activist for social justice, and a storyteller of sometimes other inconvenient truths. ⁠

Read @lilahrap’s profile of Moayed for @fthtsi at the link in bio.⁠

Image description: a clip of actor Arian Moayed mixing a cocktail behind a counter⁠

Photo credit: @jingyulin_


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'If you want to understand whether a thing is useful,' says Tim Harford, 'you can always look at what happens when somebody breaks it. Call this the Joni Mitchell principle: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.'⁠

Link in bio for his full column.⁠

Image credit: Alberto Miranda⁠

Image description: An illustration of a classical temple roof above red bar-chart columns on a blue grid background. Underneath on a salmon-pink panel are the words: We don't know how useful official data is – until it's gone, followed by Tim Harford's name⁠


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In the wake of her husband Paul Auster’s death, the Brooklyn brownstone the couple shared is filled with ghostly characters from their life together.⁠

Take a look inside at the link in our bio.⁠

Image credit: @meghanmarin

Image description: Author Siri Hustvedt sits on the steps of her brownstone home in New York City. Two large plants in pots are flowering in the foreground and there is an ornate black handrail behind her⁠


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The presence of Christian nationalists in the Trump administration 'has given us a glorious opportunity to set the progressive agenda back half a century,' says pastor Doug Wilson.⁠

The influential church leader sat down to Lunch with the FT in Idaho to talk about his ties to Pete Hegseth, dismantling the fences of liberal democracy — and why Trump is ‘like chemo’.⁠

Link in bio for the full interview.⁠

Image credit: James Ferguson for the @financialtimes

Image description: A white-bearded Doug Wilson, seated in a restaurant interior and wearing a dark blue blazer⁠

Tap the link in our bio to read more.


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From concrete-clad villas on Costa Rica to a discreet bolthole in the hills above Porto Cervo on northern Sardinia, tap the link in bio for three great escapes for sun and sea, as chosen by HTSI's Maria Shollenbarger.⁠

Image description: wrap-around outdoor pools in stone terraces surrounded by Mediterranean scrub, in La Tiara, Porto Cervo⁠


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The war in Ukraine is the latest manifestation of a mindset that has been decades, if not centuries, in the making. ⁠

Link in bio for this week's Books Essay, which debunks the myths that Russia tells itself – via three new books.⁠

Image credit: © Thomas Dworzak/Magnum⁠

Image description: A still from a Russian state TV broadcast shows two soldiers, oneholding a child’s toy inscribed with the ‘Z’ symbol used to signal support for Russia’s military in Ukraine ⁠


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