A roadside litter campaign in the Borough of Tonbridge and Malling, Kent.
©AJ Levy

Nudge theory

Behavioural economics is a hot idea for policy makers in the UK and US. But, asks Tim Harford, what can it really achieve?

LIFE & ARTS ARCHIVE

President Barack Obama, right, with Richard Holbrooke ©Eyevine
Idealist or realist? In March 2013, Edward Luce relected on why the jury was still out on both Barack Obama’s foreign policy and his presidency
A North Korean soldier reacts as he patrols along the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju after the country conducted it's third nuclear test on February 12, 2013 across from the Chinese city of Dandong. North Korea staged its most powerful nuclear test yet on February 12, claiming a breakthrough with a "miniaturised" device in a striking act of defiance to global powers including its sole patron China. ©AFP
In September 2009, Simon Schama visited the Demilitarised Zone between the two Koreas, where ‘comedy meets catastrophe’
Illustration by James Ferguson of Dana White
©James Ferguson

Dana White

In a no-holds barred clash, the pugnacious president of the company that has made mixed martial arts a billion-dollar sport takes on the FT’s Lucy Kellaway. Is it a fair fight?

Elephants in the Gonarezhou National Park
©Plainpicture

Return to Zimbabwe

As a BBC reporter in Africa in the 1980s Michael Buerk used to spend his holidays there. Now, as tourists start to come back, he revisits the beautiful but troubled country

'A Group of Artists (The Painters of the Brücke)', 1925-26, by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
©Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Subversive art

A restaging of the famous ‘Degenerate Art’ show of 1937 invites reflection on the tragedies – and ironies – of the Nazis’ bizarre urge to display art they claimed to despise

Labour politician Roy Jenkins playing tennis with his wife Jennifer at their home in East Hendred, Berkshire on March 20 1976
©Hulton Archive/Getty

Roy Jenkins recalled

The Labour politician missed out on being PM but did more to shape modern Britain than any of his political peers

Vicky Ward

Vicky Ward

The writer takes a break from exposing the shady stories of real estate moguls to examine New York’s clashes between culture and commerce

Louis Vuitton, spring/summer 2014

Denim goes upmarket

From embellished jeans to trouser suits, the workhorse fabric is having a catwalk moment

Veronese's 'Allegories of Love – Scorn' (c1570).
©The National Gallery

Veronese, the painters’ painter

The Italian artist’s sweeping designs, sumptuous surfaces and theatrical command of space has made him a reference point throughout history

©Shonagh Rae

AL Kennedy

Lionel Shriver reviews ‘All the Rage’, a set of love stories in which isolation prevails

The peaks of the Cadini di Misurina near Cortina d’Ampezzo
©Randy Jay Braun

The mighty Dolomites

On the mountain border between Italy and Austria, Hugh Thomson explores dramatic peaks and the area’s little-known Ladin culture

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