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Argentina
Argentina’s Javier Milei faces airline privatisation backlash
...“If he wants to take Aerolíneas, he will have to kill us,” said Pablo Biró, leader of Argentina’s airline pilots’ union, on Wednesday....
November 22, 2023
Travel
VW’s hippie classic reborn, electrified — and yours for the weekend
...And then seamless GPS and Spotify integration don’t conjure the same magic as a dog-eared map marked scruffily in biro and a transistor radio hanging from the rear-view mirror....
May 25, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Magazine
John Banville on his turn to crime writing
...Blunt was seated in isolation at one end of the room, while, at the other, the gentlemen of the press — it is unlikely there were many ladies — were flipping open their notebooks and uncapping their biros...
September 2, 2023
Jo Ellison
Peter Kay, parochialism and post-Brexit humour
...Audiences pack his stadiums to weep with laughter at his impressions of someone using a landline while trying to scrawl down a note with a broken biro. A landline!...
November 11, 2022
ReviewBiography and memoir
Spare by Prince Harry — complain and explain
...Harry recalls meeting Princess Margaret at a family Christmas where the Queen’s elderly and embittered sister had bought him a present, which turned out to be a biro....
January 10, 2023
FT SeriesThe HTSI holiday gift guide 2022
What’s on the HTSI editor’s Christmas wishlist?
...Time to empty all those overflowing pen pots full of ancient old Biros and leadless pencils and fill them with these, the ultimate ink pen....
November 11, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Travelista
Dramatic destinations to explore by boat
...But the best are still the best, and near the top of that list is Dunia Baru, the seven-cabin yacht that’s the only wooden vessel classified by Biro Klasifikasi Indonesia, the national maritime regulator...
August 26, 2022
Robin Lane Fox
Cuttings edge: how to propagate plants at low cost
...Make a hole for each cutting near the side of the pot, where the drainage is usually better: I use a defunct thick old biro for that purpose....
September 2, 2022
Travel
This winter’s most exciting ski destination: Albania’s Accursed Mountains
...Now, I bent down and used my pen to measure the print — my 15cm-long biro fitted easily inside, four claw marks protruding further still....
November 2, 2022
ReviewGaming
Tunic brings the joy of discovery back to games — if you look for it
...Look for answers in your manual and you might notice that someone has scrawled cryptically with a biro in its margins....
April 19, 2022
Music
The Sex Pistols: from filth and fury to Disney and Sotheby’s
...“(I’m Pretty) VACANT” reads the first, biro-scrawled line, the studiously applied brackets intended to ape the canonical song titles of the era such as the Four Tops’ “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)” or The Temptations...
May 14, 2022
The Art of FashionThe Art of Fashion: the British issue
Venerable cloth weaver Fox Brothers keeps the looms spinning
...Lying on a wooden table in the Victorian warehouse at Tonedale Mill in Wellington, Somerset, opposite racks holding hundreds of rolls of cloth, its most recent pages are jotted with biro-ed requests for...
April 4, 2022
News in-depthKenneth Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg: a mediator balancing lives with dollars
...He met Biros when he hired her as his administrative assistant in 1979....
March 19, 2021
Poetry
The poem: ‘Poem on a bike’ by John Gallas
...Comes the happy end eventual,and comes the happy biro....
April 19, 2021
HTSI
Eimear McBride: ‘I’d come to know London just walking it, long before having any real sense of its layers’
...For the next 15 years or so it slowly turned red with Biro’d-in routes but, eventually, wore right down to flitters in the bottom of my bag....
August 8, 2021
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
The Big Read
Labour’s fight to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s scandals
...Sabina Biro, a 43-year-old masters student, looks puzzled when asked for her thoughts about the Labour leader: “I don’t know him as much as Boris,” she muses....
February 23, 2022
InterviewTelevision
Actor Shaun Evans: ‘I’m happy to be a gun for hire’
...Previously a teacher, Dexter had the idea of writing a crime series while holidaying in Wales in the 1970s — “and then he got a Biro and an A4 pad and just wrote it....
August 21, 2021
Letter
Letter: What do vinyl, pens and cash have in common?
...The appearance of the Biro foretold the end of the fountain pen. Vinyl LPs were widely assumed to be obsolete in the face of the CD....
July 14, 2020
Gardens
The catalogues that planted a gardener’s seeds of desire
...The scene in the run-up to December 25, circa 1984: while other 10-year-olds are poring over the Argos catalogue in search of a Girl’s World or a ZX Spectrum to add to their Christmas list, I have my Biro...
December 18, 2020
Hungary
Hungary’s Orban comes under fire for coronavirus response
...Mr Biro-Nagy said that in the event of such co-operation, Mr Orban would likely lose his parliamentary supermajority....
May 19, 2020
HTSI
How I Spend It: Sami Ibrahim on his desk
...Its wood is a pale, faded brown, like parchment, and the surface is covered in a decade’s worth of graffiti: scratches of Biro, permanent marker, highlighter, Tipp-Ex, paint, carvings from a compass, and...
May 21, 2020
Cryptocurrencies
Poll reveals public distrust for big tech’s digital money plans
...The debate has been propelled from the guys with green biros in the back office right up into the board room,” said Philip Middleton, the OMFIF’s deputy chairman....
February 5, 2020
Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
‘When you travel as much as I do, you build up immunity’
...A Thrust biro. I don’t feel like you’re all taking this very seriously. Let’s start the scavenger hunt. Right, on the count of three . . . one, two . . . Where’s everybody gone?...
March 13, 2020
Henry Mance
There is a reason banks are coming for the canteen thieves
...What about the employees who take Biros from the office stationery cupboard? Or who use their work phones to call their overseas friends? Are we — I mean, they — all to be fired?...
February 7, 2020
Turkiye Halk Bankasi AS
US prosecutors demand escalating penalties for Turkish lender
...It not only rejected a summons sent by a Manhattan court, but also returned the FedEx parcel that contained it, with a note penned in blue biro by the bank’s legal department....
January 21, 2020

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