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A journey into Britain’s murky colonial hinterland
...In a society that lived or died by overseas commerce, a “vast intercontinental geography” might transform the sleepiest hamlet....
May 8, 2024
ReviewFiction
Your Absence Is Darkness — a rich mosaic of Icelandic storytelling
...The action begins in a state of confusion. Beside a remote fjord, an amnesiac narrator comes to consciousness....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Managing Operational Risk in M&A Transactions
Examining the value of business licensing and property tax in the deal cycle
Thursday, 20 JuneDigital Conference
Janan Ganesh
OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power
...When Simpson was born in 1947, the US had a nuclear monopoly and around 40 per cent of world economic output....
April 20, 2024
News updates from April 11: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76
Former NFL star OJ Simpson dies aged 76
...In 1997, Simpson was found liable for their deaths in a civil suit. Simpson spent about 10 years in prison after being charged in 2007 on 12 counts related to an armed robbery in Nevada....
April 11, 2024
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Salman Rushdie’s fearless memoir Knife uses his assassin’s blade as a ‘reckoning’
...Knife is not just a candid and fearless book but — against all odds — a defiantly witty one....
April 17, 2024
O. J. Simpson
OJ Simpson, NFL star known for ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76
...Simpson’s lawyers charged that a crucial piece of evidence presented by the prosecution — a glove found outside Simpson’s Brentwood mansion that matched another at the crime scene — had been planted by a...
April 11, 2024
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Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
ReviewBiography and memoir
Tangled Paths — Aby Warburg, the maverick who defined the power of the image
...This maverick scholar from a banking dynasty identified himself as “by blood a Hebrew, by heart a native of Hamburg” but “in spirit a Florentine”....
February 29, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: How do you define a war crime?
...Boyd van Dijk Yeah, it’s a good question and a very important one....
April 11, 2024
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Who Owns This Sentence? — an attack on copyright
...In this work the founding partner of a Manhattan law firm and a senior Ivy League professor attack the copyright system that aspires, in their words, to “provide writers and artists with a living wage”....
January 11, 2024
Letter
Letter: Gen-Zers should try ersatz altruism. It’s just the tonic!
...And by the way, if I see a self-made guru gazing into the golden light of his own reflection, cupping in his lap a blue and white crystal crock, I know what it’s full of. Jeff BoydLondon E9, UK...
January 5, 2024
Letter
Letter: Water group claims key to UK infrastructure puzzle
...plan, on a scale we’ve never seen before....
February 12, 2024
ReviewFT Books Essay
Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré
...A playboy with a puritanical streak, Fleming found his métier as a Reuters reporter....
October 12, 2023
Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
How do you define a war crime?
...Gideon discusses the history of international humanitarian law since the first world war with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book, Preparing for War - The Making of...
April 11, 2024
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...of a moral centre” in letters....
September 27, 2023
ReviewNon-Fiction
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama — a story of Palestinian pain
...It treats a fatal accident on the Jaba road, north of Jerusalem, in February 2012, and its tragic outcomes, as a microcosm of West Bank life under occupation and a window into what Thrall calls “a hidden...
November 1, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Alphaville
FTAV’s further reading
...TikTok is going crazy for ‘British Homer Simpson . . . ‘” — New clues for what will happen when the Sun eats the Earth (Quanta Magazine)...
December 21, 2023
HTSIHTSI autumn travel special
Five great art exhibitions to travel for
...2024, whitecube.com Lorna Simpson at Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Lorna Simpson’s Special Characters series – collaged portraits of women taken from the pages of vintage editions of American magazine Ebony...
October 28, 2023
News in-depthCost of living crisis
UK households cut back on beer, meat and domestic appliances after prices surge
...Mark Boyd-Boland, partner at consultancy LEK, said that in addition to cutting discretionary spending, consumers had “sought to moderate what they bought at the grocery store”, buying “a few less of the...
May 2, 2024
Volocopter
Flying taxi start-up Volocopter in crunch talks with investors
...Simpson, who joined last year from the internet security company Avast, takes over immediately....
May 1, 2024
ReviewFiction
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House
...The vision and style have recruited hordes of fans and spun off a star-strewn TV series. Now that Slough House represents what movie-franchise moguls call a “universe”, Herron has taken a step back....
September 8, 2023
ReviewFiction
Caret — disability meets desire in volume 3 of Adam Mars-Jones’s series
...Study every scene from a fresh angle, an unexpected point of view. It’s the perspective of a wheelchair-user, a deity — or a proper novelist....
August 16, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: US backs funding Ukraine from Russian assets
...Orenthal James Simpson had a successful football career that led to acting roles and advertising contracts....
April 12, 2024
HTSI
12 things to see, buy and eat in March
...From love letters to drawings, photographs to fashion, Boyd is auctioning off a treasure trove of memorabilia....
March 7, 2024
John Thornhill
War by algorithm raises new moral dangers
...But the Lavender system appears to have contributed to a “dramatically excessive” rate of collateral damage that is morally indefensible, says Tom Simpson, a former Royal Marine now philosophy professor...
April 11, 2024
Climate change
London and other UK cities unprepared for effects of climate change
...“We need to recognise that Londoners now face lethal risks, and a step change is needed,” said Boyd. “In the absence of national leadership, regional government has a more significant role to play....
January 17, 2024

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