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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 58m

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson on.ft.com/3J8E31g

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson

Heavily influenced by The Band, the 1974 track by the folk-rock duo also featured a Manchester horn ensemble

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 5h

Sally Wainwright’s mid-life punks take centre stage in Riot Women on.ft.com/474CgCk

Sally Wainwright’s mid-life punks take centre stage in Riot Women

Joanna Scanlan, Tamsin Greig and Rosalie Craig channel frustration and pain into a rock band — to big-hearted, crowd-pleasing effect

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 11h

Navigating the 21st century requires a talent for paradox. How to live in the grey zone – according to Janan Ganesh: on.ft.com/3WyFVDy

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 14h

The 1956 Games sealed the Italian resort’s reputation as the world’s most glamorous place to ski — but it gradually lost its lustre. Can Milano-Cortina 2026 kick-start a resurgence? on.ft.com/4mZpFX8

As the Olympics return, Cortina hopes for a new golden age

The 1956 Games sealed the Italian resort’s reputation as the world’s most glamorous place to ski — but it gradually lost its lustre. Can Milano-Cortina 2026 kick-start a resurgence?

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 18h

HTSI editor’s letter: do you want to play house with me? on.ft.com/3IFU66N

HTSI editor’s letter: do you want to play house with me?

India Mahdavi, Carsten Höller, Kelly Wearstler, Gustaf Westman, Berry Dijkstra and Maye Ruiz are having serious fun with interiors

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 19h

Will we ever reach Cecil Beaton saturation point? No time soon, it seems.

An exhibition exploring the photographer’s work highlights the role of stylish eccentrics in creativity: on.ft.com/4h5hyqJ

Cecil Beaton, the Big Fashion Personality

An exhibition exploring the photographer’s work highlights the role of stylish eccentrics in creativity

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 21h

Would voters tolerate a visa auction?

It’s hard to say, says Tim Harford: on.ft.com/4n2qs9I

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Pink Snow 2025: a winter sports special on.ft.com/3KDjBGt

Pink Snow 2025: a winter sports special

From Olympic excitement in Cortina to the untracked snows of Kazakhstan — plus the world’s first battery-powered skis

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

FT Crossword: Polymath number 1,356 on.ft.com/4okS3UR

FT Crossword: Polymath number 1,356

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper getting under Trump’s skin on.ft.com/4pZ77c9

Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper getting under Trump’s skin

His selection as the half-time entertainment at the Super Bowl has outraged Maga-world

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

‘The real prison is outside’ — Palestinian stories of creative resistance on.ft.com/4nMjpTS

‘The real prison is outside’ — Palestinian stories of creative resistance

Ruanne Abou-Rahme and Basel Abbas’s multimedia installation at Nottingham Contemporary is a sombre exploration of the experience of incarceration

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 763 on.ft.com/3VZ8RV6

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 763

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Former US trade chief Robert Lighthizer: ‘Economists have been wrong on everything!’ on.ft.com/4h1b3Fg

Former US trade chief Robert Lighthizer: ‘Economists have been wrong on everything!’

The architect of Trump’s first-term tariff policy on the end of free trade, swapping the White House for Wall Street — and why he considers the president ‘the most honest person’

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Who should decide what makes a building beautiful? on.ft.com/4n3JuN5

Who should decide what makes a building beautiful?

Everyone agrees that we need more homes, and fast — and that we want them to look good. But who should be the judge: architects, governments or the general public?

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

Should rivers have rights? on.ft.com/47j6GC7

Should rivers have rights?

Another party might simply say our children shouldn’t have to swim in sewage. Not the Greens

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 1d

The unsinkable Kelly Wearstler on.ft.com/4q25Il1

The unsinkable Kelly Wearstler

An exclusive look at the interiors star’s new collectable design platform, Side Hustle

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

Desolate, dramatic and surreal: a journey across Argentina’s empty quarter on.ft.com/43eVEeL

Desolate, dramatic and surreal: a journey across Argentina’s empty quarter

In the country’s far north-west, Stanley Stewart finds a lonely but spectacular land of volcanoes, salt pans and vast horizons

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

The Woman in Cabin 10 film review — Keira Knightley stars in a story desperately seeking intrigue on.ft.com/4ogMczR

The Woman in Cabin 10 film review — Keira Knightley stars in a story desperately seeking intrigue

She plays an investigative journalist in a flimsy mystery about a disappearing cruise passenger

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

FT quiz: the week in news on.ft.com/3J5iZZB

FT quiz: the week in news

Ten topical questions to test your news nous

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

I Swear film review — Tourette biopic is both serious and larky on.ft.com/3IYZi5x

I Swear film review — Tourette biopic is both serious and larky

Kirk Jones’s film brings home how dangerous the syndrome can be while also threading the story with smart comedy

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

The $100mn cool of Comme des Garçons Play on.ft.com/4oajAYT

The $100mn cool of Comme des Garçons Play

How a cartoon heart conquered the world

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

A look back at the novels and novellas of László Krasznahorkai, who has won the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature on.ft.com/3VTakwh

László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature

The Hungarian author, described as a ‘great epic writer in the central European tradition’, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. We look back at the FT’s reviews of his novels and novellas

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature on.ft.com/46JIlW3

László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature

The Hungarian author, described as a ‘great epic writer in the central European tradition’, won the Man Booker International Prize in 2015. We look back at the FT’s reviews of his novels and novellas

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

Science Under Siege — a rallying cry against the ‘forces of darkness’ on.ft.com/4mU4aqA

Science Under Siege — a rallying cry against the ‘forces of darkness’

Two scientists go where many fear to tread in the fight against far-right disinformation on climate and vaccines

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 2d

Ask what your gym can do for your country on.ft.com/4mY8YLJ

Ask what your gym can do for your country

A loneliness epidemic and Gen Z’s obsession with fitness could help western countries bolster civilian defence