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Socketed in the Pentland Hills, amid rolling farmland south-west of Edinburgh, a low stone cottage is hidden up a dirt track, shielded front and back by bushy gardens. Through a…

In the spring of 1975, Susan Meiselas was riding her bike through Little Italy in New York when a sudden flash of light forced her to brake. A gang of girls, aged maybe 10, were…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Mario Vargas Llosa’s death, at 89, brings a literary…

This has to be one of my more unusual dinners: sourced, and consumed, to the rhythm of the tide. It all started with a bit of low-water pêche à pied, as my guide Jérôme Thérèse…

A fledgling avocado plant stands on an aluminium console in the living room of Șerban Ionescu’s Paris apartment, its roots twisting down into a glass carafe, a spindly stem…

During the time I spend with Stewart Copeland, the former Police drummer mimics the oscillating warble of a white-throated sparrow, the regular “whoop whoop” of a woodpecker and…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.After some recent excursions to the United States, the FT…

Very few things can be as personal, emotional and sensory triggering as perfume, which is why some people spend hundreds of pounds to get their hands on a favourite fragrance that…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Electric vehiclesmyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.The EU should scrap its total ban on selling new cars with…

As millions gather in churches around the country for Holy Week services, a quiet revolution is unfolding: More Americans are leaving the pews — not because they've lost faith,…