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Good morning and welcome to the 2026 edition of the FT Weekend Festival, kicking off now at Kenwood House in London 🎪 Join the #ftweekendfestival online here, and stay tuned for the day's highlights: ft.trib.al/riF4U56
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George MacKay, Frank Dillane and Herbert Nordrum are ready for a new wave of Austen-mania: ft.trib.al/7Z949sy
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Not even FT consumer editor Claer Barrett is immune from this late-night drain on her bank account: ft.trib.al/rVa1Cba
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How resilient is Britain? Is it ready for war? Is it prepared for the threat of interstate conflict against the backdrop of a warming planet?  Will Lloyd investigates: ft.trib.al/XkUV8fp
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Jair Bolsonaro is imprisoned for plotting a coup, leaving his eldest son to run against his old rival. Could Brazil’s first family of the radical right be on the verge of a comeback?ft.trib.al/n2rZ6XX
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Amid the ‘great wealth transfer’, inheritances are an intense source of conflict — are parents partly to blame? Isabel Woodford reports: ft.trib.al/KV5mQT6
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Sertaç Dirik’s new restaurant Kid, in Soho, is lively, stylish and often delicious, but its best ideas still owe much to the Turkish grill culture it refashions, says Jay Rayner. Tap here to read his review: ft.trib.al/wPZxD6Q
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The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece ft.trib.al/0kQBngF

The ‘7 Up’ series: didactic social history as masterpiece

This vivid and complex account of life as it is lived has proved to be one of the great happy accidents of television

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In Rome, a palazzo becomes a self-portrait ft.trib.al/YHlkQLi

In Rome, a palazzo becomes a self-portrait

At home with the artist Paolo del Gallo di Roccagiovine

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Private Property is furnishing a new gen of art collectors ft.trib.al/wigYHuY

Private Property is furnishing a new gen of art collectors

Sarah Piantadosi amassed a stash of unique prints. Now she wants you to have one too

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A room is alive — never finished, just ready for living in ft.trib.al/zODV8Pp

A room is alive — never finished, just ready for living in

A space should be open to change and growth, invite activity and thought, and encourage stories to unfold

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How resilient is Britain? ft.trib.al/nNBWXaA

How resilient is Britain?

As climate and geopolitical risks cast doubt on the UK’s ability to cope in a crisis, leaders are turning from ‘just in time’ to ‘just in case’ as a governing philosophy

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The ballad of John Factor, the original white-collar bandit ft.trib.al/r91Czou

The ballad of John Factor, the original white-collar bandit

An ambitious stock scam made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. What happened next was more audacious still

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Why Lamole’s pale reds are suddenly worth the climb ft.trib.al/zNYhbiv

Why Lamole’s pale reds are suddenly worth the climb

Once too cool for fashionable Chianti, this hilltop Tuscan village is now prized for the fresh, elegant Sangiovese that a warming climate has made possible

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The hunt for China’s wild mushrooms ft.trib.al/OTqVzU8

The hunt for China’s wild mushrooms

In Yunnan province, foragers, traders and chefs chase a brief season of prized wild fungi – fragile, expensive and sometimes dangerous

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This season’s jewellery muse? Cleopatra ft.trib.al/UAOgjmP

This season’s jewellery muse? Cleopatra

Designers are mining ancient Egypt for inspiration

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Jay Rayner reviews Kid, Soho — cool, clever, not quite revelatory ft.trib.al/iPx7ahr

Jay Rayner reviews Kid, Soho — cool, clever, not quite revelatory

Sertaç Dirik’s new restaurant with David Carter is lively, stylish and often delicious, but its best ideas still owe much to the Turkish grill culture it refashions

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Mozart’s first major opera — now with cocaine and Succession-like intrigue ft.trib.al/iMjWJr9

Mozart’s first major opera — now with cocaine and Succession-like intrigue

Claus Guth’s ‘Mitridate, re di Ponto’ brings a striking staging and supple singing to Naples’ Teatro di San Carlo

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English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot shows flashes of brilliance ft.trib.al/y9uAK1M

English National Ballet’s Rhythm Riot shows flashes of brilliance

At Sadler’s Wells, dancers struggled to keep up with Balanchine, but found new energy with two world premieres

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France’s Goncourt literary prize pulls novel over AI concerns ft.trib.al/wG95Uo2

France’s Goncourt literary prize pulls novel over AI concerns

Prix Goncourt judges say Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien ‘in all likelihood’ used artificial intelligence to write his book — a claim he denies

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At Milan Fashion Week, Prada skirts the issue while Vogue World offers robots ft.trib.al/H3bZrdM

At Milan Fashion Week, Prada skirts the issue while Vogue World offers robots

Plus Glenn Martens’ Diesel swansong, Meryll Rogge makes her mark at Marni and a glass-encased runway at Fendi after Peta protests in New York and London

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