'For all his previous fine deeds he was always a projection of people’s dreams and the time of heroic narratives has passed.' My essay on Cyril Ramaphosa draws on 30 years' reporting & the sense he is now as much prisoner as president of the ANC ft.com/content/cabeae… via @ft

And that's a wrap for #ftweekendfestival live in Washington DC! Thank you to all our speakers and to you for joining us – and goodbye too from some of today's stars Juliet Riddell Nancy Pelosi roula khalaf Janine Gibson Financial Times Live Orson Francescone usftweekendfestival.live.ft.com

'Hey, I typed, without the foresight that I might one day be reiterating my messages in a newspaper column'

Well, here it is – for FT Weekend, my encounters with the Westminster honeytrapper . . . on.ft.com/3Ufxr2F

We are looking for an editor for House and Home, the superb property and interiors section within FT Weekend. It is a BRILLIANT job, so take a look. boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtimes…

Some very good restaurants have donated a meal to this. You could eat that viral caviar pasta with Janine Gibson at The Corner, saw a pigeon in half with Dan McCrum at St John, and many more.

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As with so many things, what it all seems to boil down to is who's in charge of what. Fantastic read from Hannah Murphy who got amazing access to the X ceo for the FT Mag cover story on.ft.com/457IzlC

My favourite thing about this Lunch with the FT by the very brave ⁦⁦⁦Lauren Indvik⁩ is that Anna Wintour maintains she doesn’t understand the very simple decades-old format while undermining EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of it. Icon
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An early publication for this excellent lunch with Elon Musk’s biographer, Walter Isaacson by ⁦Gillian Tett⁩
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I had lunch in Dubai with Russia’s richest man, who talked about why he doesn’t feel responsible for the war in Ukraine, why sanctions on agriculture oligarchs are like the Hiroshima bombing, and why “the time of troubles won’t be limited to Russia” on.ft.com/3PiJKdg