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FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #31: Victor Hugo
...Hugo embellished the dining room with Delft ceramics, which form a double “H” for Hauteville House above the fireplace; a drawing room is clad in red damask....
August 26, 2023
Letter
Letter: Why US should take pride in Brazil’s democratic vote
...Benjamin H Bradlow Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs Princeton University, NJ, US...
June 26, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
Goodbye, Dr Banda — what Malawi teaches the western world
...He takes it out into the sun and opens it to find a 1584 edition of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, printed in Venice by a celebrated Renaissance press and bearing a stamp on the front page: “Ex Libris H Kamuzu...
May 29, 2023
FT SeriesSix trips to feed the soul
Oyster diving with Sweden’s fisher queen
...After seven years in the fashion industry, working for H&M opening stores both globally and locally, she found herself in a spiritual crisis: “I felt trapped. It was a real hamster wheel....
June 16, 2023
Letter
Letter: Could Andrew’s Garter knighthood be next to go?
...Bernard H Casey Frankfurt, Germany...
January 17, 2022
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: jewellery 2022
The jewels in the gown
...Then there are the clothes from Area designers Beckett Fogg and Piotrek Panszczyk that resemble bravado reclamations of Vegas showgirl costumes, with dripping Victor/Victoria wigs of crystal and cupped bras...
June 20, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Enuma Okoro
The lines we cross in our lives
...The risks were so great that in 1936, Victor H Green, a black postal worker, published The Negro Motorist Green Book giving advice on where it was safe to stop to eat, rest or get gas....
March 25, 2022
French politics
Emmanuel Macron touts green credentials after vote defeat
...130km/h; and the introduction of environmental protection as a primary goal in the preamble of the French constitution....
June 29, 2020
FT Swamp Notes
Clash of the titans
...Consider not only the problems faced by apparel makers such as Nike, H&M and various luxury goods providers over Xinjiang cotton, but the news that Procter & Gamble worked with Chinese companies to test...
April 12, 2021
France
French PM hails 2-month national debate but warns of high hopes
...He recalled how he had been harshly criticised for lowering the speed limit from 90km/h to 80km/h in some rural roads — thousands of speed cameras have been destroyed or damaged by the gilets jaunes — when...
April 8, 2019
House & Home
The house that Victor Hugo decorated
...This Guernsey house was where Victor Hugo made his home-in-exile for 14 years....
May 10, 2019
Janan Ganesh
Where is San Francisco’s Bonfire of the Vanities?
...Victor Hugo’s Paris. Tom Wolfe’s New York. Charles Dickens’s London. Whose San Francisco? Even a brief visit confirms its resemblance to these other cities at their most feverishly written-about....
December 21, 2018
Europe Express
Brussels reheats an old tool for a new trade war
...We are not closing the door for Hungary, but we have decided we must close it for Victor Orban and Fidesz.”...
March 19, 2019
FT Wealth
The next gen trying to boost Hong Kong’s growing art scene
...With space so limited and expensive on the island of Hong Kong, H Queen’s is a rarity....
November 25, 2018
World
Florida feels force of Irma as hurricane hits Keys
...Maximum sustained winds were at 130mph (210km/h) as Irma moved north-west at 6mph. Squalls with embedded tornadoes were already sweeping across south Florida late on Saturday....
September 10, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
FT SeriesWorld Cup 2018
The five style tribes of football
...Hot on the Vuitton Victors’ monogrammed heels are the Gucci Gladiators....
June 6, 2018
US & Canadian companies
Hellman & Friedman leads race for $5bn Nets deal
...H&F is working with some of its own investors which are likely to co-invest alongside the San Francisco-based buyout group in the deal....
September 1, 2017
James Kynge
A reckless North Korea remains China’s useful ally
...“North Korea is a public-relations nightmare for China every time it does something bad,” says Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington....
April 19, 2017
FT Magazine
Madrassas: behind closed doors
...Victor Mallet is the FT’s south Asia bureau chief Photographs: Adeel Halim; Victor Mallet Letter in response to this article: Extremists try to fill voids left by governments / From Tariq Hussain...
October 30, 2015
News in-depthRetail & Consumer industry
Bangladesh garment workers face intimidation and abuse
...Rights Watch, the US based group, estimates that fewer than 10 per cent of Bangladesh’s estimated 4,500 garment factories — which export $24bn worth of clothing a year to western groups such as Walmart, H&...
April 22, 2015
beyondbricsVictor Mallet
India election: corruption and the limits of logistics
...H.S....
March 28, 2014
Indian politics & policy
India’s ‘third front’ seeks to shake up politics
...include Nitish Kumar of Bihar, Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu (who has also been toying with the idea of an alliance with Mr Modi and the BJP), Naveen Patnaik of Orissa, Mulayam Singh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh and H.D...
February 25, 2014
FT Magazine
The networker: Martin Sorrell of WPP
...Apart from turning out for the WPP cricket team — “we play to win,” Sorrell says, superfluously — he tries to join a scratch side assembled every year by Sir Victor Blank, former chairman of Lloyds TSB,...
March 13, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Film reviews: Diana, Hawking, InRealLife, Kelly + Victor, The Call and Metro Manila
...Dame Helen Mirren can no longer be distinguished from H.M. Elizabeth II. A hair-curling paper could not be slipped between Meryl Streep and Margaret Thatcher....
September 19, 2013
World
The bridge-builder who led a nation to democracy
...In 1995 he travelled to the whites-only enclave of Orania to have tea with Betsie Verwoerd, widow of H F Verwoerd, the spiritual father of apartheid....
December 5, 2013

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