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Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper

Columinst/ Freelancer at Financial Times

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Location
United Kingdom
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Art
  • Books
  • Entertainment
  • Demographics
  • National News
  • Politics

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Recent Articles

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Britain’s new ambassador to France: ‘You all play the game of influence’

Mere weeks into the job, ‘securocrat’ Sir Thomas Drew has positioned Paris’s 18th-century Hôtel de Charost as ‘an informal annex to formal discussions at the Élysée’. It’s no small feat
28 days ago
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How sport unites us

In a divided world, fandom is a social superpower
about 1 month ago
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Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks

Does the country need a wealth tax?
about 2 months ago
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Simon Kuper: in the footsteps of Queen Victoria (and Victoria Beckh...

After two years of restoration work, Brenners Park in Baden-Baden reopens this month
2 months ago
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Can Israel go it alone?

The secular Zionists who founded the state were desperate for allies. No longer
2 months ago
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The threats facing Poland

Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord
3 months ago
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How Maga rewrote the Little Red Book

Trump’s populist rhetoric has echoes of communism
3 months ago
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Why France is stuck

A failure to spend less is at the root of the country’s political problems
3 months ago
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Simon Kuper seeks out the rural good life in the village crowned ‘F...

A primetime TV talent show each summer selects the nation’s most idyllic village. But in Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye, not everyone is happy
4 months ago
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The magic of childhood in the Netherlands

And what other countries can learn from it
4 months ago
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Derk Sauer, western media magnate in Russia, 1952-2025

Dutch editor founded The Moscow Times and Russian editions of magazines including Cosmopolitan and Playboy
4 months ago
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War crimes in real time

With many states fighting like terrorist groups, can the law of war reassert itself?  
4 months ago
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What China wants from Europe

As the US abandons the world order it built, China builds its own — how should Europe respond?
5 months ago
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AI is reinforcing the dominance of English in the workplace

Technology will make the world’s most spoken language more valuable, but speaking a more obscure one has advantages
5 months ago
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The evolution of stupid

AI is the latest in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber
5 months ago
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Football heading for ‘collective bargaining’, says head of players’...

Alex Phillips, the secretary-general of Fifpro says footballers are scapegoated, overworked and excluded from decisions — while true power remains with clubs and owners
5 months ago
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How war became contagious

With peaceful norms fading, a new weapon has made conflict cheaper and easier 
5 months ago
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Liverpool’s former data guru on signing Salah and Man Utd’s struggles

For a decade Ian Graham helped drive Liverpool’s analytical approach. Now CEO of Ludonautics, he explains why most clubs are still resistant to change
5 months ago
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Sand, sea and solitude in Sardinia’s ‘little Sahara’

While the Costa Smeralda draws a crush of billionaires and superyachts, on the opposite side of the island, the Costa Verde has vast dunes, a slick new hotel — and almost nobody around
6 months ago
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Will he or won’t he? How to parse Donald Trump’s daily show

Lessons from a French historian on understanding a US administration that is structured like a reality series
6 months ago
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Best summer books of 2025: Sport, Health and Wellness

Simon Kuper and Anjana Ahuja select their best mid-year reads
6 months ago