‘Living on a narrowboat has taught me a lot about the value of taking things slowly and looking for the simple pleasures in life’ - John Lawrence At the start of the year, I began living on a ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is early summer in the village of Cheddleton in England’s West Midlands, where a man named Barry, a trustee ...