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Minority Report and the rise of sci-fi on stage

...The question comes partway through Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film adaptation of Philip K Dick’s novella The Minority Report....

February 13, 2024

Bridge - Card game

Deduction from silence reveals position of missing cards

...However, when West continues with K♥ and J♥, you ruff high in dummy and East shows out. How does that change your plans? West is now marked with six hearts headed by ace-king-jack....

December 6, 2023

FT Live

Due Diligence Live

Where leaders in investment and finance meet

Bridge - Card game

Targets matter: do not let your eye or mind stray from it

...East took A♠, returned 2♠, and South won deceptively with K♠ in hand....

December 27, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Every bid, including passes, can contribute key information

...Lead J♣ from hand, West covers — if he does not, declarer runs the jack — and declarer wins with dummy’s K♣....

September 20, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Value power of dummy’s trumps over danger of opponents still holding them

...BiddingDealer: NorthLove All South holds only 15pts, but every card is working — there are no wasted jacks or unsupported queens — and, with a decent fit, 5-4-3-1 hands usually play well....

June 14, 2023

Chinese business & finance

China’s billionaires back Xi’s plan to restore economy

...As part of its efforts to restore confidence, the government has wrapped up investigations into Tencent’s fintech arm and Jack Ma’s Ant group....

July 20, 2023

FT Live

Managing Operational Risk in M&A Transactions

Examining the value of business licensing and property tax in the deal cycle

Bridge - Card game

Bridge: delay play of crucial suit until distributional information is revealed

...You cash A♣ and K♣, East showing out, and now you can successfully finesse West for the jack, and your contract....

March 9, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama — a story of Palestinian pain

...On that wet winter morning in February 2012, a jack-knifing trailer truck on an Israeli-controlled (“Area C”) highway north of Jerusalem flipped an old bus carrying Palestinian pupils from a private elementary...

November 1, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Identify and use all means to isolate threatening opponent

...East covered dummy’s jack; declarer won with K♠. 2♣ was led and, when West played Q♣, dummy’s ace took the trick....

December 13, 2022

World Economic Forum

China past Covid infections peak, top economic official claims

...Shengjie Lai, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, told the journal Nature that cities would have passed their infection peak by mid-January....

January 17, 2023

Bridge - Card game

Initial plan updated by information inferred from bidding and early play

...West holds six hearts headed by ace-king-jack. If he also held K♣, surely he would have overcalled 2H?...

September 20, 2022

Style

Rowing Blazers expands its preppy portfolio with Chipp

...There are boat shoes with Sperry, sneakers with K-Swiss, suitcases with Globe-Trotter and watches with Seiko....

March 25, 2023

Travel

Is this the world’s best pool?

...Architect Ferenc K Császár completed Dandár in its eponymous red-brick street in the 1930s as a public bath for abluting, not lounging....

August 17, 2023

FT Swamp Notes

Why the media got it wrong again

...It was the modus vivendi of all the good political journalists of that generation, Jack Nelson of the LA Times, Jack Germond and Jules Witcover of the Baltimore Sun etc....

November 11, 2022

Bridge - Card game

Compound No-trump deal challenges Teams players

...At least East will not hold both A♣ and K♠ on top of his king-jack high pre-empt, and declarer knows that West started with only two diamonds. So, what does declarer do at trick 2, and why?...

March 2, 2022

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Chinese business & finance

China Cinda takes 24% stake in Ant’s consumer credit unit

...In January its former head, Lai Xiaomin, was executed for alleged corruption. He had been sentenced to death by a court in the port city of Tianjin just three weeks earlier....

December 24, 2021

Due Diligence

What’s KKR without the K and the R? Premium

...He’d been photographed with the Communist party’s ruling elite as early as July, long after his tech billionaire friend Jack Ma, with whom he co-owned the Guangzhou Evergrande football team, had temporarily...

October 12, 2021

The Week Ahead

Inflationary pressures and loosening of Covid restrictions

...Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase and Jack Ma’s ecommerce platform Alibaba will also publish earnings....

February 20, 2022

News in-depthChinese politics & policy

Chinese documentary prompts rare criticism of Xi’s corruption crackdown

...In one case it was alleged that private companies made “unreasonably high payments” to the brother of Zhou Jiangyong, the former party secretary in Hangzhou, an eastern city that is home to Jack Ma’s Ant...

January 29, 2022

Due Diligence

Is there really a climate coup? Premium

...The billionaire bromance behind a (pending) $44bn takeover Jack Dorsey has mixed business and friendship before....

May 25, 2022

Chinese corruption

Chinese booze baron jailed for life in latest warning to tycoons

...A clutch of China’s richest and most prominent business leaders, including Alibaba founder Jack Ma, have come under immense pressure over the past year as Beijing has launched a broad crackdown....

September 24, 2021

Lunch with the FT

Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai: ‘At least we fought, we showed our dignity’

...founded by Jack Ma, just days before it was to be listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong....

November 13, 2020

Hong Kong politics

Protest granny ‘prepared to die’ for Hong Kong’s freedoms

...Although less well known abroad than other protest figures such as activist Joshua Wong or dissident media tycoon Jimmy Lai, Ms Wong’s supporters say that few better represent the bravery and resilience...

December 28, 2020

Lex

Best of Lex: wealthy winners take all in the pandemic Premium

...The Communist party is publicly cutting ecommerce group Alibaba and its founder Jack Ma down to size....

April 16, 2021

Nikkei Asia

China rethinks the Jack Ma model

...Financial services is another area of contention, as Jack Ma’s ill-fated speech clearly showed....

December 18, 2020

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