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    Janan Ganesh

    International politics commentator

    Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
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    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      HM Treasury
      The west has forgotten the limits of government

      Scepticism is precious in a world in thrall to the power of the state

      Two cyclists pass the headquarters of HM Treasury in London
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Why isn’t everyone talking about Niger?

      Indifference to a coup of potentially world importance reveals a parochial intelligentsia

    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      US politics & policy
      The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak

      Both men are uncharismatic, populist pretenders — and prematurely written-off

      montage of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How Burgundy explains life

      Complex and unreliable, the wine region resembles the experience of living

      A man leans on a barrel while holding a glass of wine
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Climate change
      The beginning of the end of Britain’s net zero consensus

      It took hold in a world of low inflation and national confidence that is long gone

      Conservative MP Steve Tuckwell gives a speech after winning the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election last month
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      An inquiry into Macron Derangement Syndrome

      Dislike of the French president reveals how shallow and tribal politics now is

    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Harry S. Truman
      ‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man

      Harry Truman was travestied in the movie — but he built the world we live in and stand to lose

      Harry Truman in 1946
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The radicalism of having a good time

      The new Wham! documentary reminds us that there is nothing profound or daring about gloom

    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Populism has given the elites more power than ever

      The rise of protectionism empowers a ‘deep state’ that demagogues claim to hate

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Diverse is not the same as cosmopolitan

      And the second is much harder to achieve

    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      UK general election
      Why Labour might yet fall short of victory

      Britain tends to only give the party a clear win when the country is feeling robust. It isn’t

      A middle-aged man in white shirt and tie stands on a podium with a large Union Jack and an audience of people behind him
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How British liberals turned American

      In thought, speech and habit, the UK left has spurned Europe for the US

    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Geopolitics
      The myth of autocratic competence takes another hit

      The utilitarian case for democracy is stronger than the moral one

      Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, both wearing dark suits, toast each other with glasses of white wine
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Could you pass a test on Asia?

      Ignorance of the continent is the biggest hole in western education

      A woodblock print showing men in robes, talking and looking at a scroll
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Populism
      Stop trying to rationalise western populism

      Unlike the eastern kind, of the likes of Viktor Orbán, it is not about very much

      Donald Trump and Boris Johnson
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Why the media is so self-obsessed

      A declining industry has to take itself seriously, because no one else will

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      UK politics
      No, British democracy isn’t safer than America’s

      Boris Johnson’s exit from parliament has led to complacency about the UK’s civic health

      Liz Truss in the Commons during her brief stint as prime minister
    • Friday, 9 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Luxury goods: Europe’s joke on the world

      The old continent profits from the cultural insecurities of other regions

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Don’t blame the west if the global south goes its own way

      Developing countries have agency of their own, including the power to be wrong

      The Bandung conference, a meeting of Asian and African states who were newly independent, in 1955
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The frictionless life goes on

      Deglobalisation is hardly inconveniencing me at all

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      Populism
      Why DeSantis is losing Republicans to Trump

      He mistakenly thinks populist voters want to win power and do something with it

      An advert promoting Ron DeSantis in Miami
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Martin Amis
      A stylist, yes, but Martin Amis was also right on the money

      The writer’s life might best be understood as one long reply to George Orwell’s idea that only plainness can illuminate truth

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      UK politics
      Starmer must wait before breaking the Brexit omertà

      Voters know they made a mistake. That doesn’t mean they are ready to be told so

      Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour party leader
    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How earphones freed the individual

      Portable private sound is one of the most liberating inventions of the past century

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Don’t blame the elites alone for populism

      The refusal to see fault in the public isn’t generous, it is infantilising

      Donald Trump and the journalist Kaitlan Collins during the CNN’s town hall last month
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