FT Weekend Magazine - 10.19.2019

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Cover: protester‘NickWu’, photographedlast

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5 SimonKuper

Whatwe can learn from people

with beautifulminds

6 Inventory

Alexander Armstrong,presenter

and comedian

8 TechWorld

West Coastworkersseek remotecontrol

10 RobertShrimsley

Mumsnetand thegreat marge boycott

10 Letters

12 InsidethebattleforHongKong

As protests rage,the FT spent months

with pro-democracyadvocatesasthey

wrestle forconcessionsfrom the world’s

mostpowerful authoritarian state.

BySue-Lin Wong

22 InterviewwithactorWendellPierce

The star of ‘The Wire’and the latest stage

version of ‘Death of aSalesman’talksto

HenryManceabout the powerofart,

politics and prejudice

28 Wordofmouth

Whydid The Infatuation–the influential

and irreverent US restaurant reviewsite –

buy the venerable Zagatbrand?And what

will it do with it? ByMadisonDarbyshire

32 Interview:ShahidulAlam

Last year,the renownedBangladeshi

photographerwas jailedand tortured for

denouncing his country’sregime.Now his

work has beenshortlisted forthe Prix Pictet

2019 award.Rachel Spencemeetshim

38 Honey&Co

Chocolate,passionfruit and coconutcake

41 JancisRobinson

Whyiswine so expensive?

42 MyAddresses

Chef/restaurateurJan Ostleon Bristol

43 I’dbelostwithout...

My stockpot, says chefDaniel Fletcherof

Fenchurch Restaurant

44 NicholasLander

Wild HoneyStJames, London

45 Games

46 GillianTett

Sex, middleage and the city

FT.COM/MAGAZINEOCTOBER19/

‘Howdid asmallblog

disrupttherarefiedworld

ofrestaurantcriticism?’

MadisonDarbyshire, p2 8

‘I have 20 summers

left. I’mnotgoing

towasteanytime’

WendellPierce,p

‘This is aquickmix-and-

bakenumber,achocolate-

coconutcombo’

Honey&Co,p

LOLA &PANI