FT Weekend

17 splendid ways to spend it in November

Christmas knits from the Highlands and Islands, Bloomsbury by the sea, a passage to Portofino – and more

They got together – and opened a hotel

Love stories from Marrakech to Mendocino

Interiors are biting back

Creatures that scratch, snarl, prick and pinch are driving a fierce trend — but there’s beauty with the beastly

A Bordeaux vintage worth waiting for

A tasting of top 2010s reveals magnificent wines, many still years from their peak. But as the fashion for laying down bottles fades, who will have the patience to enjoy them?

‘A menu that grabs your attention and holds it’ — Jay Rayner reviews Beau, Belfast

Tucked down an unpromising service lane, this sibling to Edō is serving some of Northern Ireland’s most assured cooking, with local ingredients and ideas drawn from around the world

India’s female bodybuilders 

Across Kerala, women from often conservative backgrounds are embracing bodybuilding, finding community and overturning gender expectations in the process

The right to be apolitical

The film ‘Fatherland’ is too harsh on the uncommitted

Saying nothing in Northern Ireland

Beneath a carefully maintained peace, the region remains unwilling to confront its history

Is there a way out of Britain’s ‘rejection economy’?

In Rotherham, the town with the fewest entry-level jobs in the UK, young people are struggling to find a place in society

Patrick Stewart, actor, 1940-2026

The great Shakespearean brought dignity and gravitas to Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jean-Luc Picard and X-Men’s Professor Charles Xavier

GLP-1 pioneer Lotte Bjerre Knudsen: ‘The food industry has to listen’

The Danish biochemist on her role in paving the way for weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy — and how they could change the way all of us eat

No One Tells You: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien — candid revelations by her own son

In this deeply personal biography of the late great Irish writer, Carlo Gébler chronicles his mother’s painful descent into illness and infirmity

The super-rich are moving to Athens — what does that mean for everyone else?

Greece has spent years offering incentives to wealthy foreigners. Now its ambition is for them to put down roots by bringing their families and businesses and forming new communities

FT Weekend Magazine Crossword Number 817

Mini Crossword Number 133

Na Praia hotel – a ‘beautiful ruin’ in the dunes

Studio Ko’s latest design builds a timeless vision of the future

A lobster lover’s guide to Maine

Beaches, LL Bean and blueberry pie – an autumn escape in the Pine Tree state