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Cover: protester‘NickWu’, photographed last

month inHongKongbyPierfrancesco Celada

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5 Simo nKuper

Whatwe can l earn from people

with beautifulminds

6 Inventory

Alexander Armstrong, presenter

and comedian

8 TechWorld

West Coastworker sseek remote control

10 RobertShrimsley

Mumsnetand thegreat marge boycott

10 Letters

12 Insi dethebattleforHongKong

As protestsrage,the FT spent months

with pro-democracyadvocatesasthey

wrestle forconcessions from theworld’s

most powerful authoritarian state.

BySue-LinWong

22 Inter viewwithactorWendellPie rce

The star of ‘TheWire’and the latest stage

version of ‘Death ofaSalesman’talksto

HenryManceaboutthe powerofart,

politics and prejudice

28 Wordofmouth

Whydid The Infatuation–the influential

and irreverent USrestaurantreviewsite –

buy thevenerable Zagat brand? And what

will it do with it?ByMadisonDarbyshire

32 Inter view:ShahidulAlam

Last year,the renowned Bangladeshi

photographerwas jailedand torturedfor

denouncing his country’sregime.Now his

work has been shortlistedforthe Prix Pictet

2019 award.Rachel Spencemeetshim

38 Honey&Co

Chocolate,passion fruit and coconut cake

41 JancisRobinson

Whyiswine soexpensive?

42 MyAddresses

Chef/resta urateurJan Ostleon Bristol

43 I’dbelostwithout...

My stockpot,says chefDaniel Fletcherof

FenchurchRestaurant

44 Nicho lasLander

Wild HoneyStJames,London

45 Games

46 Gilli anTett

Sex, middle age and the city

FT.COM/MAGAZINE OCTOBER19/202019

‘Howdid asmallblog

disrupttherarefiedworld

ofrestaurant criticism?’

Madison Darbyshire, p28

‘I have 20 summers

left.I’mnot going

towaste anytime’

Wendell Pierce,p22

‘This isaquick mix-and-

bakenumber,achocolate-

coconut combo’

Honey&Co,p38

LOLA &PANI