Jahangir is one of the three Mughal rulers in focus at the V&A’s The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence, which showcases this golden age of craftsmanship and artistry with a parade of ...

Entrepreneur and socialite Charles Finch has launched a footwear brand aimed at the super-rich but hands-on sailor ...

Tourism is Cuba’s third-biggest source of scarce foreign exchange, and one of the mainstays of an economy that has been strangled by a US trade embargo in place for more than six decades and a new ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Thorstein Veblen invented the notion of “conspicuous consumption” he was not thinking of a crypto tycoon ...

Annie Leibovitz picked me up from the station and drove us north along a twisting road through mysterious woods, the long autumn light flashing between the trees. She has kept a home here in upstate ...

The optimal position in life is that of the partial outsider. That is, someone handicapped enough in a given milieu to see things others might miss, but not so alien as to be unable to work the system ...

When Germany-based Lidl and compatriot Aldi arrived in Britain in the 1990s, the middle aisle’s main appeal was cheapness. But mirroring the discounters’ wider march upmarket, it has now become the ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A wealthy Italian businessman funded ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The emotional contradictions crystallised on the beach of Fudaihama. There was no denying that we were in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A decade after Lee Jae-yong took the ...

Donald Trump mostly nominated mainstream conservatives to his first cabinet after the 2016 election. Some high-level appointees back then barely knew Trump, but this time around, he’s selected close ...