Games special: puzzles, quizzes, Plato and wizards
A special summer issue of FT Weekend Magazine — it’s playtime!
Six hot takes from Copenhagen Fashion Week
The 20th-anniversary edition of the event championed underwear as street style, smart sustainability and cycling chic everywhere
Parents of UK students dig deep to fund university costs
Many expect to provide more than £50,000 towards tuition fees and living expenses, says survey
Venezuelans take to the streets as country hit by daily blackouts
Caracas experiencing power cuts for first time in 7 years despite government pledges to invest in grid
Credit insurer to cut cover for UK housebuilder Vistry’s suppliers
Allianz Trade’s planned move could exacerbate squeeze on cash flow of struggling company
Sainsbury’s needs a dose of Big Tech’s boldness
UK’s second-largest supermarket has spent the last two decades delivering distinctly terrestrial returns
Kids, flats and student loans: Why UK first-time buyers are getting older
One in three starts a family before having a home of their own
The exciting boring decade
Why hasn’t all the chaos in the real world inspired more interesting art?
London’s dejected housebuilders finally catch a break
Merely returning to normal won’t be enough if the government wants to meet its ambitious construction targets
Burnham urged to rule out changes to pension lump sums in next Budget
Do not invite pre-Budget speculation for third year running, City bosses warn new PM
The US bares its financial weak spot
Yen intervention points to the squishy underbelly of American weakness
State of the nation: a jumbo American crossword
Solve this Texas-sized puzzle — then solve its nationwide meta-puzzle
State of the nation: solutions
Dry cider deserves a place in your wine glass
Too often mistaken for something sharp or austere, cider can be as expressive as wine — shaped by fruit, orchard, vintage and make
Killer grids: solutions
Camp Algebra: solution
Stay or go? How wildfire evacuations are changing in an era of big blazes
Successful movement of 350,000 people in Europe puts focus on need for drills and alerts in a warmer world
How to fix Britain’s housing crisis
We need to find ways to lift the financial and resource constraints on new homebuilding
Mario Vargas Llosa: the legacy of a literary superstar
An impassioned critical biography traces the Peruvian Nobel laureate’s ideological shift from left to libertarian, while his final novel hints at a truce with the homeland he had rejected
Keller, Whitstable: a class act by the sea — restaurant review
The Fordwich Arms team brings confidence, charm and serious seafood cookery to their new wine bar — and a bottle list that privileges local vineyards
The joy of cooking imaginary food
From ‘The Sims 2’ to ‘Overcooked’, video games turn kitchen work into play — and reveal the satisfaction of making something you cannot eat
The grasshopper was right all along
Why play is at the core of a meaningful life — and of fly fishing
Hexwords: a game of tactical vocabulary
Outspell and outflank in this alphabetical twist on a two-player, game-theory classic
Camp Algebra: a sporting maths puzzle
Welcome to a fiendish numerical triathlon. Can you decode the trophy?